Bee Control Experts | Magic Pest Control
Africanized honey bees, or killer bees as they are often called, are not often encountered within America. However, this is not to say that killer bees don’t exist in America, as killer bees migrated into America several decades ago. It took killer bees several years to arrive in America after they were accidentally released in South America. Once the bees arrived in America, they continued their habit of mating with native bee populations; this has allowed killer bees to propagate rapidly within America. The resultant offspring retain the aggressive demeanor of their killer bee parent. Given most people’s experiences with common bees, it may seem dramatic to describe Africanized honey bees as killer bees. However, this moniker is perfectly reasonable, as killer bees kill one or two Americans every year, and this number is likely to increase in response to the ecological effects of climate change. The first killer bee victim of the year in the United States in now hospitalized in critical condition after sustaining at least two hundred stings from head to toe.
The victim of the killer bees is a cleaning lady named Maria; she was swarmed by eighty thousand killer bees outside of a home that she had been cleaning in Lake Forest, California. By the time Maria arrived to the emergency room, doctors counted more than two hundred stings on nearly every inch of her body.
Shortly after Maria was attacked, firefighters arrived at the scene. Several of the firefighters sustained a number of bee stings while rescuing Maria from the killer bee attack. The firefighters eventually succeeded in repelling the bees with a carbon dioxide extinguisher. Apparently, when firefighters arrived, Maria’s face had become swollen to the point where she became unrecognizable due to the repeated stings to her face. Amazingly, Maria is expected to live. Shortly after the attack, pest control professionals removed ten pounds of beehives from the property where Maria was working. Hopefully Maria demands worker compensation.
Would you be willing to risk sustaining bee stings in order to rescue a helpless victim of an attack?
