Bush’s fault no doubt!
The bees, which are attracted to vibrations, had swarmed inside a phone company’s metal box containing fiber optic equipment. A private company was later called to remove two hives said there were “approximately 60,000-70,000 confirmed Africanized honey bees,” officials said.
The bees are not attracted to vibrations and they did not swarm into the phone companies metal box.
Man, killer bees are bad business.
I live where we have rattlesnakes and cottonmouths and black widows and brown recluses etc., etc............but nothing scares me like the killer bee. That is one hellish experience and you normally don’t make it out.
Africanized. Nasty little buggers. Some beekeepers actually keep them where they’re already endemic, but it’s definitely a “full bee suit and smoker at the ready” affair.
The firemen did good themselves walking into that, but that's what they do.
ouch!
. . “ Inspite of the recovering economy, and freezing temperatures, the disenfranchised bees reacted the only way they know how . . “
zz zzz zzz
Wonder what set them off. Did she bump into the metal box?
I wonder why the FD didn’t use CO2 extinguishers. Freeze the little buggers in mid-flight.
I hate it when that happens.
The rural telephone linemen that I worked with doing data installation would talk about going to the interconnect or “B” box to test pairs. I finally asked why it was called the “B” box, if it some sort of hierarchy of box types etc. No, it was because they commonly had nesting Bees or wasps inside, they called them Bee boxes.
I’m allergic to bees. I woulda been killed.
My prayers to the victims.