Swarming Killer Bees Send 70 Mexican Police Officers to the Hospital

[ShooterMcGavin]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348410,00.html

Tuesday, April 08, 2008


MEXICO CITY — At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.

The attacked occurred Monday in Tapachula, Chiapas, after one of the policemen hit the bees' hive with a bullet, local police officer Miguel Serrano said Tuesday. At least 10 of the 70 officers stung were in serious condition, he said.

"We tried as hard as we could, but we weren't able to avoid getting stung," Serrano said. "Some of us hit the ground, but that didn't help."

"It was really bad. I haven't seen anything like it, even in the movies," he said.

Africanized bees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as "killer bees," are the result of an experiment to increase honey production in Brazil. A swarm escaped a lab in 1957 and began heading north.

:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:

[Ran]

"F*ck bees! I'd punch every bee in the face!"

[Motivation]

They must have gotten into one maybe two patrol cars to get 70 of them...



Oh and shooting a bee hive is always a good idea!!!

[Echonova]

Why are they Africianized bees Africian if they were made in Brazil?

[thinkfast®]

They must have gotten into one maybe two patrol cars to get 70 of them...



Oh and shooting a bee hive is always a good idea!!!

HEY PUNK BISH WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY

[nreggie454]

Why are they Africianized bees Africian if they were made in Brazil?

They are a hybrid of an African bee species and another one because they thought they would be more productive.

[thinkfast®]

...because they thought they would be more productive.

:lmfao: :lmfao:

FUKIN REGGIE MAN

[Killer]

putting killer in a thread title always makes me look twice...

i'm always like "a call out???"............................ "ah nope... dummies..."

[Psycho]

"F*ck bees! I'd punch every bee in the face!"
Then I would grab their ass and shout degrading comments at them while I do it.

[GuessWho]

bet that still didnt put them outta work...

[nreggie454]

:lmfao: :lmfao:

FUKIN REGGIE MAN

It is the truth though...


The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_hemisphere) descended from 26 Tanzanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania) queen bees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee) (A. m. scutellata) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957) near Rio Claro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Claro%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo), São Paulo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo) State in the southeast of Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil) from hives operated by biologist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologist) Warwick E. Kerr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Estevam_Kerr), who had interbred honey bees from Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe) and southern Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa). Hives containing these particular queens were noted to be especially defensive. Kerr was attempting to breed a strain of bees that would be better adapted to tropical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics) conditions (i.e., more productive) than the European bees used in North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America) and southern South America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America). The hives from which the bees were released had special excluder grates which were in place to prevent the larger queen bees from getting out but to allow the drones free access to mate with the queen. Unfortunately, following the accidental release, the African queens eventually mated with local drones, and their descendants have since spread throughout the Americas.

The Africanized hybrid bees have become the preferred type of bee for beekeeping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping) in Central America and in tropical areas of South America because of improved productivity. However, in most areas the Africanized hybrid is initially feared because it tends to retain certain behavioral traits from its African ancestors that make it less desirable for domestic beekeeping.