Re: Re: Killer Bees

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

A friend of mine and I were out riding one afternoon and we had basically
the same experience as you an Nelson.  We saw this dark cloud coming our way
and by the time we realized it was a swarm of bees it was too late to do
anything!  My friend yelled,  " What do we do!?!?"  I yelled, l"DUCK!!!"  So
we laid across our horses necks and the entire swarm flew over us.  No one
got stung and we had a cool story to tell the rest of the day. :-)
gesa n clovis (actually I was riding my appy mare Miss Color Girl )
-----Original Message-----
From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:31 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Killer Bees


>Here's a kind of (now that I look back) funny kind of story about bees that
>happened to Nelson and I this summer.  We were trimming/shoeing at a farm
>under a tree because it was shady.  Nice, sunny day.  I kept hearing a
>funny hum and I looked around the field nearby thinking it must be a
>bumblebee or a few honey bees getting into clover blossoms. Nope.  I didn't
>think much about it but then the hum was louder and I remember thinking
>"Silly me!  It must be the power lines!".  Only there weren't any!  I
>finally looked UP and to the east and you could SEE the cloud of bees
>swarming and guess where they were headed??  Straight for us.  We couldn't
>believe it at first.  We barely got the horse out of there and the windows
>shut on the truck...poor Nelson didn't know if he could make it to the barn
>so he shut himself in the truck.  They proceeded to swarm into the tree and
>eventually made a clump about the size of two basketballs.  It was
>unbelievable.  None of us got stung.  The horses in the surrounding
>paddocks and the stallion in the roundpen didn't even lift their heads up
>from grazing!  We were able to get to our truck without any trouble when
>they finished their clump and the client told us they moved on later that
>day.  Their hive must have been disturbed and they were looking for
>another. But boy, after all those stories and movies about killer bees it
>was quite unnerving!!  :)  Still gives me the willies thinking about it
>now!! But at least I can laugh (sort of!).
>Maggie
>Michigan
>
>
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