Killer Bees Attack Texas Man With 3,000 Stings

[dlevere]

Killer Bees Attack Texas Man With 3,000 Stings

[bungholio]

Horrible. I really hate bees too. I'm not allergic and have been stung some, but they aren't a very hostile thing where I live. As long as you don't mess with them they usually won't mess with you. If you see them buzzing around plants, walk around them. If they fly close to you, just stand still and wait for them to continue on. I often don't stand still either, they just kind of circle me for a moment and then fly away.

[dlevere]

I need bees to pollinate my garden. Believe it or not, a lot of people here in Philadelphia keep bees on their row house rooftops to collect their honey. If you eat honey produced in the same zip code that you live in, it helps to reduce allergy symptoms.

[BeyondTheStatic]

Horrible. I really hate bees too. I'm not allergic and have been stung some, but they aren't a very hostile thing where I live. As long as you don't mess with them they usually won't mess with you. If you see them buzzing around plants, walk around them. If they fly close to you, just stand still and wait for them to continue on. I often don't stand still either, they just kind of circle me for a moment and then fly away.

I agree with all of that, except the hating of bees part. I love 'em :P

Reminds me of a time in kindergarten. Before recess, we had all watched a video about bee safety, about how not to get stung by remaining calm if one should come around. We were all waiting patiently (for 5-year-old kids anyway) in line to come back into class, when wouldn't you know it, a honey bee came to check us all out. Well to make a short story even shorter, one kid freaks out over the bee and gets himself stung, thus proving everything we learned in the video to be true (and the kid to be either not too bright or a little too anxious, or both)

Anyway, it was one of those things that sticks with a person, and as a result I've been able to catch bees with relative ease all my life. Well, except for a few years back when, on a drunken mission, I decided I'd go and break up the meat bee nest under the house... you know those welts don't go away for a long time!

[RANT]
On a somewhat related note, Monsanto and other GMO companies may be the direct cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Plants altered to unnaturally produce insecticides may actually be killing our bees. And the US federal government has just given Monsanto free reign to plant experimental GMO crops anywhere in the US without any repercussions!

Farmer Assurance Provision

Essentially, what that Monsanto Protection Act rider said is that even if a court were to determine that a particular product might be harmful to human beings or harmful to the environment, the Department of Agriculture could not stop the production of that product once it is in the ground. So you have deregulated the GMO industry from court oversight, which is really not what America is about.

Luckily the provision won't be in effect forever!
[/RANT]