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Beekeeping => Bee News => Topic started by: barry42001 on October 09, 2014, 02:39:05 am

Title: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: barry42001 on October 09, 2014, 02:39:05 am

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/09/swarm-bees-attacks-four-people-kills-one/

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Scott Derrick on October 09, 2014, 06:14:55 pm

Barry,

The press is all over the place on this one. They can't get their numbers straight. Does that really surprise any of us?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/swarm-of-800000-bees-kills-landscaper-in-arizona/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/massive-swarm-around-800-000-bees-kills-arizona-gardener-n221951

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Perry on October 09, 2014, 07:54:53 pm

It's even in the news up here. :D

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Yankee11 on October 09, 2014, 11:31:33 pm

I think that's one of my queens.

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Jen on October 09, 2014, 11:42:49 pm

Um..... I dunno.... something is fishy here.

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Yankee11 on October 10, 2014, 12:15:10 am

one to many zeros.

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: Jen on October 10, 2014, 12:22:21 am

Exactly Yankee! And even 80,000 bees seems... I dunno... pushing the estimation

Title: Re: Here we go again...800,000 bee's I want that hive
Post by: lazy shooter on February 01, 2015, 07:15:43 am

There was a paper wasp nest of some sort pulled out to the attic of an old house in Corpus Christi, Texas that was approximately the size of a living room couch.  Maybe it was wasps and not honey bees.

The Weaver family of beekeepers say a mature hive of Italians is 80 to 90 thousand bees.