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Outcast said:
The last show I saw on them, the guys who messed with the hive got chased almost a mile out... When they came out, the guy cutting the tree got stung twice and he started to run off, they chased him about 120 feet and then stopped...

I really do not know much about africanized bee's, but it seems to me as though they are not africanized...
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I'm not saying they definately are, but they could be and better safe than sorry.

The reason they put that on the show is that it was exciting! Their normal behavior of doing not much would make for very boring television.

The problem with shows like that is they give the public the impression that these bees are just out to attack, and this is blatently wrong! For the most part they are no more dangerous than regular bees, but seeing as they are NOT natives need to be dispatched with.
 
Anything not native should be dispatched, IMO. They out compete native species, which causes some to even go extinct, and are usually a nuisance. Two non native invasives I really hate, are the house sparrows and starlings. Bad birds!
 
Fire ants, I hate them with a passion.
When I lived in Alaska I had a large berry garden, I could tend the garden surrounded by a cloud of bees. I was only stung once when I stepped on one.
 
Yeah, the only time I was really stung by bee's was when I stepped on them as a kid. Wasps and Yellow Jackets, were a different story... Those things used to hunt me down...LOL
 
Dreamsnake said:
Fire ants, I hate them with a passion.
When I lived in Alaska I had a large berry garden, I could tend the garden surrounded by a cloud of bees. I was only stung once when I stepped on one.
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I know exactly what your talking about. Up here I haven't really had much a problem with bees, but when we lived in texas we had some bees that moved into an old tree out front and I was out washing the car one day on the far side of the house away from the tree and was fine. I went ahead and moved the truck over by the tree to get it in the shade so I could dry it off and wax it. I went inside grabbed 2 towels and came out side, I didnt make it 10 feet out the door and BAM right on the back of my neck I was stung, before I could react another bee hit me but didnt sting so I took off running to the side of the house, that whole hive started chasing me as I ran in the side door. I kid you not, you could here several smack into he door when I closed it. I dont know if they were African honey bees or not but these ones were extremely aggressive. They were so bad we couldnt leave the house for 4 hours because they were swarming outside around the tree and my truck the entire time. We actually had to call and cancel a doctors appointment because of it. I have never had that problem up here. And when I say swarm, im talking a HUGE swarm, big enough to look like a cloud around the tree and my truck.
 
Allalaskan: That sounds like a killerbee hive. When I had that wild garden, my friends joked about me getting a beard of bees. Once I uprooted a swarm of spiders and had a thousand spiders crawling all over me. Most were daddy long legs, but it still freaked me out.
 
Dreamsnake said:
Allalaskan: That sounds like a killerbee hive. When I had that wild garden, my friends joked about me getting a beard of bees. Once I uprooted a swarm of spiders and had a thousand spiders crawling all over me. Most were daddy long legs, but it still freaked me out.
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Couldn't be. Africanized bees haven't made it north or Southern Oregon yet.
 
Dreamsnake said:
Allalaskan: That sounds like a killerbee hive. When I had that wild garden, my friends joked about me getting a beard of bees. Once I uprooted a swarm of spiders and had a thousand spiders crawling all over me. Most were daddy long legs, but it still freaked me out.
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Another thing too, my son was stung by one inside the house a few days later, and I noticed that the stinger it left behind was much larger looking then most honey bees I have seen (Not sure about native bees in Texas, I was referring to the native honey bees I grew up seeing up here in Alaska) which took me by surprise but im not real familiar with the native bees Texas, we only lived there for about a year. I will say though, I have never ran into a swarm of bees any where near the size of those I ran into that day I washed our Explorer.
 
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