How sad… We had a swarm set up housekeeping in a stack of grass hay a few years ago. Lost about 30 bales due to the poison used to kill them. Also had a swarm exposed next door to my office, stung worker who barely survived.
That’s just heart wrenching. I thought they were much less of a problem due to hybridizing with our bees??
Wow. There were 2 horses that had to be euthanized due to being attacked by Africanized bees in South Texas in the last couple of weeks also.
Wow…how incredibly sad. It sounds like they tried everything. Poor horses. 
How horrible! This was actually my biggest fear when we lived in AZ. Had a swarm of them fly over me and Miss Mare, scared the crap out of me!
This may not help horses that are attacked while grazing but if you are riding and get attacked by Africanized bees immediately spur up to a gallop in any available direction and keep it up for at least 1/4 mile. Field work by university ag departments (thank you PBS/NOVA!) has found “killer” bees lose interest in protecting their hive and pursuing anything beyond about 1500 feet, which is still almost 10 times farther than the average honey bee or wasp will. You and your horse will still get stung but the swarm will be reduced to just some very well conditioned soldiers and be quite survivable. ~FH
Great tip!!!
QUOTE=FloridaHorseman;7643514]This may not help horses that are attacked while grazing but if you are riding and get attacked by Africanized bees immediately spur up to a gallop in any available direction and keep it up for at least 1/4 mile. Field work by university ag departments (thank you PBS/NOVA!) has found “killer” bees lose interest in protecting their hive and pursuing anything beyond about 1500 feet, which is still almost 10 times farther than the average honey bee or wasp will. You and your horse will still get stung but the swarm will be reduced to just some very well conditioned soldiers and be quite survivable. ~FH[/QUOTE]
Good God! The homogenization of the world.
Wonder if there is any silver lining to these bees - like hybridization that gives them hybrid vigor to overcome the mites and pesticides that are ravaging our bee populations??
Yet another reason to love B.C. Nevertheless, we keep Benadryl handy because our Boxer sniffs out the bees in the flowering clover in our lawn and got stung - face blew up and we worried about her breathing.
