When bees attack: Couple stung to death!

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Bees can be dangerous, especially the Africanized variety.  Here is the story summary from Newser of a recent attack in Texas:

An elderly couple was killed and their son injured when they messed with a swarm of bees at their Texas ranch. William Steele, 90, was spraying to kill bees that had built a hive in the fireplace of a small house he owned in a remote area of the ranch when they swarmed and attacked him, his wife, and his son, reports the Valley Morning Star. Steele tried to run from the cabin but collapsed and was stung hundreds of times.

The couple’s 67-year-old son was also stung but he managed to escape and get to the nearest phone to call authorities. Deputies without any protective equipment braved the swarm to rescue Myrtle Steele, 92. She had been stung some 300 times and died several days later in a nearby hospital. “It was a terrible thing,” an investigator with the Jim Hogg County Sheriff’s office tells Reuters. “You don’t prepare for something like that. “

As of Tuesday evening, the species of bees had not been identified, and that the hive had not been removed from the home.

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12 years ago

I like bees. I’m on their side. I’m a survivor I am.

African bees?….See??? Bloody immigrants again!!…;-)

lazersedge@charter.net
12 years ago

Though I have been bitten and stung by many creatures large and small in my lifetime I do not claim to be an expert, but My bet would be on the Africanized bees. The European version tend to be much less aggressive and it sounds as it this was a bunch of really pissed off bees.

Michael John Scott
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12 years ago

I agree Bill. I have not heard of domestic bees acting like this.

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