Northern Texas abuzz after 30,000-strong bee attack. - Polidicks

[quote]The bees also killed five hens, and stung the couple's dog.[/quote] Actually, nevermind "[B]FUCK EVERYTHING[/B]"

[QUOTE=TestECull;41634450]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. 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.[/QUOTE] Well, its one thing to be irritated and move pack to pack. Yet this was one massive friggin horde of them. What exactly pissed off what looks like a thundercloud of bees to move out and about and fuck shit up like that? If they had a hive in the earth, just how goddamn huge could it have gotten to allow a 30k bee assault? Is it normal to have that many bees in a single hive? I mean, if anything, it sounds like the Africanized types to go apeshit on anything but there is a lot of unexplained stuff here that can only be speculated.

I remember a few weeks ago I took 8 bee stings to the hand at once. My arm was super tingly for a few days. It freaked me out a little.

Meanwhile in Bee Cave, TX...Dell Conagher is inventing an anti-bee sentry

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;41636136]Meanwhile in Bee Cave, TX...Dell Conagher is inventing an anti-bee sentry[/QUOTE] also know as the Dee-Bee Gun.

[QUOTE=TraderRager;41636142]also know as the Dee-Bee Gun.[/QUOTE] Why not a Bee-Bee gun?

Threaten them with pesticides.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;41638115]Why not a Bee-Bee gun?[/QUOTE] Too many bees. You can't have that many bees.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41638371]Too many bees. You can't have that many bees.[/QUOTE] What if EVERYTHING was bees?

Instead of pesticides use flamethrowers. They're legal and more effective.

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;41638412]Instead of pesticides use flamethrowers. They're legal and more effective.[/QUOTE] Fun fact: in various US states, flamethrowers are considered normal household appliances and therefore they're sold and regulated as such. Why, one might wonder? Because [B]bees[/B].

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;41634436]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] They ran into the pain waiting for big boss to walk by.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;41633072]Well nightmare material right here...[/QUOTE] Everyone knows you're supposed to use one of those reed-straw thingies to breath.

Well thank god they only killed the horses. Horses are fucking evil.

[QUOTE=Simski;41639105]Well thank god they only killed the horses. Horses are fucking evil.[/QUOTE] Hey man, they're not evil. They're just a very, very unintelligent animal without situational awareness that also happens to be incredibly heavy and strong. Given that combination you'd think humans would want nothing to do with them (having mostly retired them as a form of transport), yet we find excuses to form physically strong and "trusting" relationships with such beasts for fun.

[QUOTE=Vaught;41635069]Well, its one thing to be irritated and move pack to pack. Yet this was one massive friggin horde of them. What exactly pissed off what looks like a thundercloud of bees to move out and about and fuck shit up like that?[/quote] If they're africanized the mere presence of someone within a rather large radius of their hive is all it takes. [quote]If they had a hive in the earth, just how goddamn huge could it have gotten to allow a 30k bee assault? [/quote] Not very big at all. An abandoned rabbit burrow is plenty large enough to support a hive with that many workers in it. [quote]Is it normal to have that many bees in a single hive?[/quote] Wild hives can have upwards of 60,000 bees in them on average. It's not uncommon for well tended artificial hives to have over 100,000 bees in them. They also reproduce stupidly fast, that hive will have replaced every worker that died within 20 days or so if it isn't found and eradicated beforehand. So no, it isn't unusual at all for there to be 30,000 workers available to sting things like this. [quote] I mean, if anything, it sounds like the Africanized types to go apeshit on anything but there is a lot of unexplained stuff here that can only be speculated.[/QUOTE] If the tests come back positive for africanized bees there are no unanswered questions remaining.

The bees are like anonymous, dying out slowly and making all the wrong kinds of revenge attacks.

Entire colonies swarm like that when they are going to setup a new hive, but god damn 30,000 that's either one big colony or a few.