Post by Ding Carpio on Sept 14, 2008 3:09:05 GMT
On the vacant lot next to our house, a beehive started to form. I was warned about it by the village guards. They said a stray animal could accidentally nudge it sending an angry swarm amok, biting anyone in sight, including us.
Took a shot of it last week but it was raining so I just had to take a quick and blurred one.
Wanted to take a better shot today but it was gone. The darned motivated guards must've figured out some way of getting rid of the hive.
But, perhaps, the guards have a point. A neighbor of ours, probably inspired by all my birding, started walking around the neighborhood stalking birds. She must've spooked a bird which, in fleeing, ran into a hive. The bees attacked her and her face was a pulp for a few days.
Took a shot of it last week but it was raining so I just had to take a quick and blurred one.
Wanted to take a better shot today but it was gone. The darned motivated guards must've figured out some way of getting rid of the hive.
But, perhaps, the guards have a point. A neighbor of ours, probably inspired by all my birding, started walking around the neighborhood stalking birds. She must've spooked a bird which, in fleeing, ran into a hive. The bees attacked her and her face was a pulp for a few days.
(Apis dorsata) They are meaner than the infamous Africanized honey bees. They have been known to kill a full grown Carabao. If for any reason one of the bees get stepped on or get squashed the alarm pheromone that it will emit will send the whole hive to attack. Your neighbor was lucky to have just received several stings on the face.