Homeless Bees Storm Georgia Home
Wed, Apr 9, 2008
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In a scene reminiscent of a horror movie, Kelly Krivsky was at home, minding her own business, when suddenly a low buzz overtook her home.
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Running to her children’s room, she was shocked at what she saw in the windows: hundreds of bees and hundreds more outside swarming her azalea bushes.
The bees didn’t sting Krivsky, but were most likely the product of a collapsed colony. Nonetheless, an exterminator was called in to remove the bees and the family evacuated.
As bees continue disappearing around the United States, these roving swarms are becoming more common: colony life breaks down, and then the survivors set out en masse.
Krivsky’s bees were most likely reconnoitering for a larger population that was attempting to establish a new hive, a number that could have reached up to 80,000. Why the house? Development could have played a role– as fewer and fewer trees are available for shelter in urban areas, bees, which seek the same sorts of criteria as humans in a permanent home, are apparently inclined to try to become our roommates.
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April 9th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Damn, that is scary!
April 10th, 2008 at 3:21 am
This story was very poorly researched. It is the nature of honeybees to do what it called “swarming”. This is a process where the bees raise a new queen and when she hatches the old queen and about half the population of the hive leave the hive (swarm) and find a new place to live.
This is how bees propagate. If they didn’t do this there would only be one beehive, the original one!
Trying to somehow relate this to the current colony collapse disorder of honey bees is absolute nonsense.
Two thumbs DOWN !!!