OK so we may have africanize honey bees in my neighbors yard. basically the landlord did something to piss off a "honey bee" hive. They look just like honey bees, only problem they swarmed for 30 or 45 minutes(maybe even longer not entirely sure) and killed a very good friend of mines dog, and stung us a many many times. They didnt act like regular honey bees at all, and they didnt lose their stingers when they stung us or the dog(i htought honey bees did though i could be wrong). I need to find out what i need to do about these bees, and if there is someone that can identify these bees for us, if they are africanize i am getting the hell outta my place untill someone handles these SOB's

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7/14/2006 10:17:39 AM

You're really unlikely to find any Africanized bees here, so I'm seriously doubting that. Was this nest underground? If not, I'd say you're looking at things more like wasps or hornets, which are much more common in this area.

7/14/2006 1:50:51 PM

nvm

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7/14/2006 3:19:34 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/directory/moreinfo.php?username=jambrose

7/14/2006 3:44:43 PM

^^they were definantly not wasps or hotnets, the looked like regular honey bees only thing was the were more pissed off than anyhting io have ever seen(honey bees are quite docile as I understand) not saying they are africanized, just sayingf there werent acting like regular bees

neigbor has a man made hive in their back yard(who the fuck does that?)

7/14/2006 8:03:13 PM

I took an ENT class and if I remember correctly, the professor said that most honey bees are mixed with africanized bees. There are a lot of these bees in the south and they have been slowly moving north I'm not sure if they are in NC now but I remember they were seen in states like Texas and Oklahoma. Its been awhile so I'm not 100% sure. What might help if you could take a picture or find a picture that looks like the bees in your backyard and take it over to the entomology department. They're exremely nice and will help you.

7/14/2006 11:20:36 PM

^i can get several of the dead ones, and if need be i can attempt to collet some lives one(might charge the department a fee for that one ) where exactly do i take them and who do i talk?

and thanks for your PM wolfeee

7/15/2006 1:50:41 AM

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"neigbor has a man made hive in their back yard(who the fuck does that?)"

Who the fuck let's their neighbor have that.. I'd burn it

7/16/2006 3:32:23 PM

let's =/= lets

7/16/2006 5:10:58 PM

^^not saying i did it but it is now burnt down, cought a couple of thoes fuckers to take in to the Ent dept to see what is up

7/16/2006 5:29:19 PM

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"You're really unlikely to find any Africanized bees here, so I'm seriously doubting that. Was this nest underground? If not, I'd say"

Quote :

"Africanized bees proliferate because they are less discriminating in their choice of nests than native bees, utilizing a variety of natural and man-made objects , including hollow trees, walls, porches, sheds, attics, utility boxes, garbage containers and abandoned vehicles. They also tend to swarm more often than other honey bees."

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/sep/stories/kbees.html


But yeah, it doesn't seem likely that they would be all the way up here either. Heres a map of the spread.



http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6

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7/17/2006 3:38:48 PM

I went and talked to Dr Ambrose yesterday who refrered me to the NC Dept. of Agriculture because evidently the have a bee unit. They are sending someone out today to check it out so hopefully we can figure out what the fuck is going on with these bees

7/18/2006 9:05:19 AM

maybe they just got really pissed off cause someone was messing with them.

keep us updated.

7/18/2006 3:22:59 PM

well Mr. Donald Hopkins with the NC Departmen of Agriculture came out today, regretfull the hive was pretty much destroyed, said he could smell kerosen or some other accelerant. We are down to a dozen or so bees. I am kinda disappointed cause i was curious to know what kind they were other than pissed off. I have to now get him in touch with the landlord. he did say that the bees did seem to act a little strangly based on my description of what happened. So nowihave to trackdown his information. I'll let yall know about further developments... oh yeah and fuck bees

7/18/2006 4:24:37 PM

Too bad someone burned the hive up now isn't it.

7/18/2006 10:41:58 PM

i think the moral of this story is you should probably not get drunk and chuck rocks at bee hives

7/19/2006 3:40:47 PM

except i never touched the hive, and i have not gotten drunk around the hive ever so quit hating

7/19/2006 4:02:55 PM