Category: Bees

Ontario woman discovers 80,000 bees in her ceiling

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A homeowner in southern Ontario says she knew she had a “sweet mess” on her  hands when a crack in the ceiling started oozing honey.

Loretta Yates soon discovered the 1 1/2-storey house she shares with her  husband and 22-month-old son was also home to about 80,000 bees nesting in the  first-floor ceiling.

She says her insurance company wouldn’t cover the damage to her house in  Varney, just outside Mount Forest, and a pest control company couldn’t promise  to get the bugs out for good.

That’s when she called beekeeper David Schuit, who took down the ceiling and  scraped the honeycomb loose, catching at least one queen bee and recovering more  than 100 kilograms of honey.

Schuit says there was so much dripping down in the kitchen, a lightbulb blew  because it was half-full of honey.

Bees and wasps have been nesting in the house for about four years, says  Yates, but she never realized there were so many.

“I guess with the cracked ceiling in the kitchen and the honey dripping on me — that was (the) time to get help,” she said Monday.

It’s expected some of the honey will be made into candles.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Honey+oozing+from+ceiling+leads+discovery+bees+inside+Ontario+home/7013333/story.html#ixzz22Olc7qQV

Thousands of bees attack man and shut down California street

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Thousands of angry bees swarmed a man in a wheelchair, sending him and three others who came to his aid to the hospital in the Southern California city of Santa Ana.

The attack also shut down a street and forced the evacuation of several businesses while beekeepers removed the hive, which was estimated to contain 60,000 bees.

The trouble started at a storage yard when a man in a wheelchair apparently disturbed the hive, causing the bees to bombard him, Santa Ana fire Capt. Steven Snyder said.

“He was attacked and stung over 60 times and had fallen out of the wheelchair and was yelling for help,” Snyder said.

The man’s cries attracted the attention of three bystanders who ran to his aid.

The bees were so aggressive that the three men had to retreat initially, but they dove back in and managed to pull the man to safety, Snyder said.

The men were stung dozens of times during the “very impressive” rescue, he said.

All four men had difficulty breathing and suffered rashes, nausea and vomiting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44546297/ns/us_news-life/?gt1=43001

Thanks to Mr. C for bringing this to the attention of the It’s Interesting community.