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Re: [RC] Killer Bees - Jo Ann Knight


Yes I have heard of the nesting in the ground, like right outside my front
door at the edge of the driveway!  Or on my ditch bank near the road!  Dumb
bees!  But I won't let people kill them as we have enough trouble with
pollination as it is.

Jo Ann



-------Original Message-------

From: RDCARRIE@xxxxxxx
Date: 09/18/05 11:32:10
To: tallcarabians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Killer Bees

In a message dated 9/18/2005 11:51:59 AM Central Standard Time,
tallcarabians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


Hmm, I haven't heard of bees putting their nest in the ground. Maybe they
were yellow jackets (one group of VERY pissed off wasps!) or hornets? 



Rae is correct. Honey bees (of which the "killer" or Africanized bees are a
variety) don't put their nests/hives in the ground. The ones in the ground
are variously referred to as yellow jackets, or around here, ground wasps.
They get extremely pissed off when stepped on, ridden over, etc., especially
in the fall (much more irritable and more likely to chase people in the fall
I've found). 

Regarding the "killer" bees. I've talked to a researcher at Texas A&M (I
think his name was Dr. Coulson, if I remember correctly). He studies honey
bees, bee diseases, etc., and he's contacted me for info on the locations of
any bee hives in the forest. Anyhow, in his research in East Texas, he's
found that 90+% of the honey bee hives in the forest are Africanized
(killer) bees, while more of the hives in the more open country are "regular
honey bees. Seems that regular honey bees don't like the dense forest. So
any of you who ride in the forest in E. TX, don't piss off any honey bee
hives. <G> I see them fairly often at work (I work for the Forest Service)
and have walked right past them with no problem, so they're not going to
attack unprovoked, just that what they consider provocation is much less
than the average bee.

Dawn in East Texas 


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