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Bee hive in palm tree
Bee hive inside of a dead palm tree
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Southwest Florida - Miami Bee Removal Story Posted: January 7, 2010 The residents of one particular small, multi-story condo near a Cape Coral complex weren't welcome, though they produced a sweet, tasty snack. The human condo residents are breathing easier now that a 150-pound hive with 50,000 bees has been taken away. "I didn't want to take any chances," said Jerry Lazar, 71, who lives in the Caribe Martinque condominiums in the 1000 block of Southeast 8th Street. "If they were (Africanized) honeybees they'd all come after you." These bees were the more docile European honeybees, said B. Keith Councell, the professional beekeeper who removed the hive with 50 pounds of honey inside. "They're nice, gentle bees," Councell said. By contrast, he said, the Africanized honeybees are much more aggressive. "If they were Africanized honeybees, I would have had to have cordoned off a three-block radius because they would have stung anything that moved," Councell said. He said he was stung 500 times while removing a hive of those vicious bees in Fort Myers last summer. Still, "with all bees, you should give them some distance to avoid the possibility of getting stung," said Councell. He said one of the largest hives he's ever removed weighed 600 to 800 pounds and was found in the front of an abandoned Cape Coral house last June. Because he believed the bees could pose a stinging problem to himself and his neighbors, Lazar said he called the city Monday to have the bee hive removed. "It could have been a hazard, especially with children and pets in the neighborhood," he said. After a code inspector determined the bee hive posed a potential hazard, the city tried, but could not contact the owners of the vacant lot where the hive was sitting in a pine tree, said Frank Cassidy, the head of Cape Coral Code Compliance. The process Thursday afternoon took about 30 minutes. |
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Swarm of bees attack three people in Stuart Florida when workers disturb car engine-sized beehive Posted: August 12th, 2009 Three people were attacked by a swarm of bees on Monday that came from a hive about the size of a car engine. “I have never experienced anything like this before in my life,” said Kendall Todd. Todd and his brother were pressure cleaning Becky Engebretsen’s driveway in the 1800 block of Northwest River Point Drive, when they first started noticing some bees. After spraying the bees with water, more continued to show up until finally they were forced to take off on foot. “We ran a quarter mile and the swarm was still attacking us,” Todd said. Todd was stung three times, but his brother was stung nine times. “I deal with this stuff a lot but nothing like this, ever,” Todd said. Todd and his brother sat in a fire truck for about an hour; until the bees subsided after the pressure cleaning machine was turned off. Engebretsen got stung twice when she went outside looking for Todd. “My neighbor said the hive was out there for about three years,” Engebretsen said. “It never bothered anybody until today.” Steve Kinch, believes the bees became upset over the loud noise and vibrations coming from the pressure cleaning machine. The bees could have also gotten more aggressive over time because of how large the hive had gotten. It took Kinch two hours to remove the bee hive from the residential area that hanged about 4-feet from the tree and was 2-feet thick, making it the biggest hive he has removed from a tree, he said. “It was a humongous hive. It has been there for at least a few years,” he said. While Kinch was removing the 100 pounds of honey comb the bees were attacking him aggressively more then what he usually encounters. “They were attacking me very heavily,” Kinch said. “They get angry when removing a hive, but these bees were clumping up on me. They were very very aggressive.” Kinch doesn’t believe the bees were the aggressive African wild bees. |
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