Northern Texas abuzz after 30,000-strong bee attack.
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[quote]PANTEGO, Texas — A swarm of about 30,000 bees attacked a North Texas couple as they exercised their miniature horses, stinging the animals so many times they died.
Kristen Beauregard, 44, was stung about 200 times, and her boyfriend about 50 times, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Saturday[/quote]
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I freak the fuck out if I see even 1 bee. Can't imagine thousands of them attacking you
Holy shit
The only solution it seems is to exterminate all bees
Only pesticide-heavy farming can save us now
[QUOTE]"It got all dark, like it was nighttime there were so many bees," she told the newspaper. "We were trying stand up in the water but every time we stuck our heads out for air, they would cover us and start stinging us. We were trying to breathe and they were stinging us in the face and in the nose."[/QUOTE]
Well nightmare material right here...
oh well that sucks, they should of kept a good eye out for these and prevent them from even growing that big
[QUOTE=confinedUser;41633073]i wonder where they all came from[/QUOTE]
Probably a hive.
[QUOTE=-Rusty-;41633099]Probably a hive.[/QUOTE]
That would bee my guess, too.
yeah idk why i even bother posting that but i fixed that
the bees are back
with a vengeance
[QUOTE=pfoot;41633136]the bees are back
with a vengeance[/QUOTE]
Who Apised them off this time?
That's fucking horrifying.
Huh, I was expecting someone to post a certain clip of a movie involving Nicolas Cage, but I'm surprised it's not the case.
However, it is quite horrifying that they managed to sting their horses until they died. I didn't know bee stings were lethal.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;41633233]
However, it is quite horrifying that they managed to sting their horses until they died. I didn't know bee stings were lethal.[/QUOTE]
Hundreds of bee stings would kill anything.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;41633233]Huh, I was expecting someone to post a certain clip of a movie involving Nicolas Cage, but I'm surprised it's not the case.
However, it is quite horrifying that they managed to sting their horses until they died. I didn't know bee stings were lethal.[/QUOTE]
Im huge, massive doses pretty much everything can be lethal when you think about it...
[QUOTE=Blazyd;41632894]I freak the fuck out if I see even 1 bee. Can't imagine thousands of them attacking you[/QUOTE]
bees are pretty chill dudes, they're constantly pollinating the plants outside my door in groups of 5 or so, and don't even seem to notice i'm there usually. They're just big fuzzy pals, until you provoke them of course.
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;41633257]Im huge, massive doses pretty much everything can be lethal when you think about it...[/QUOTE]
Indeed. We often categorize things as poisons, venoms, vitamins, nutrients, and so on - but ultimately, nature is entirely random. Humans categorize molecules by the effects they exhibit on a body, imposing an implicit human bias. There are no explicit categories of substances. What acts as a beneficial substance, a nutrient for example, becomes a poison when there's enough of it. Oxygen can kill, as can water; an excess of anything can kill, really.
Fuck bees.
Flying horses kicking people in the face are what you need to look out for.
[QUOTE=Parakon;41633328]bees are pretty chill dudes, they're constantly pollinating the plants outside my door in groups of 5 or so, and don't even seem to notice i'm there usually. They're just big fuzzy pals, until you provoke them of course.[/QUOTE]
Africanized honey bees consider provocation to be "You existing". Those fuckers are downright mean, will chase you for a quarter mile, can and have stung humans to death, and generally have no redeeming values whatsoever. If I remember right they're an example of selective breeding gone terribly terribly wrong.
They're also active in Texas. I wouldn't be surprised if the bees in this article are Africanized, and according to the article the corpses are being tested to see if they are. The way the attack went down seems to me to be something africanized bees would do, normal ones are highly DGAF about you as long as you don't mess with their hive and will rarely chase more than 100 feet from said hive.
I've never had problems with European bees, I hope those Africanized fuckers don't come over here.
We already have those biting Asian ladybugs. :c
Bring in the 'bees' images.
[QUOTE=Siduron;41634078]Bring in the 'bees' images.[/QUOTE]
still the best gif ever
[img]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7044/oprahbees.gif[/img]
I wonder what agitated those bees so much. Bees tend to be very restrictive when it comes to stinging cause they kinda die when they sting another creature.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;41634436]I wonder what agitated those bees so much.[/quote] If they were africanized nothing more than someone existing is enough to trigger a highly aggressive defense. There's a pretty good reason why they're considered pests. They also like to make hives in abandoned burrows in the ground, which one of the ponies may have trod on...and that would piss off even the calm DGAF European strains.
[quote] Bees tend to be very restrictive when it comes to stinging cause they kinda die when they sting another creature.[/QUOTE]
Only when that creature is a mammal. They can sting other insects with absolute impunity as far as the stinger coming back out, and if left alone sometimes they can even unscrew their stinger from a human and fly away to sting another day.
European bees are bro's, I've only been stung twice. Horse-flies however have a pretty painful bite and they go straight for the flesh, they need no provocation.
"Fuck these ponies in particular"
they're avenging their fallen comrades
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