Bee and Wasp Season Once Again

It’s that time of year again. The weather is getting warmer and there is a definite buzzing in the air. Yes, it is bees. Honey bees, bumble bees, yellow jackets, wasps, hornets, are all on the increase. Nuisance Wildlife Removal starts to get more and more calls this time of year to remove nests and hives of stinging insects.

Those insects who have been docile and dormant all winter are spreading out, building new nests, and getting aggressive toward those who get to close.

Be careful entering your lawn shed, uncovering your grill or boat, and trimming the trees and shrubs. There may be a new nest of angry wasps where you don’t remember seeing one before.

If you run across a new bee hive of any size, call the professionals at Nuisance Wildlife removal. Our toll free number is 866-263-WILD.

Apopka, FL

Neighbors who live along Hickory Knoll Court say honey bees, yellow jackets and even bears, believed to be from nearby Wekiwa State Park, are all part of a neighborhood nuisance.

The insects are swarming around a foreclosed home in the Wekiva Glen subdivision. It’s not the buzzing that’s disturbing neighbors. Over the weekend, Jeff Rolling saw much more.”I heard what I thought was somebody breaking into my house. I got up and checked, and I realized it was three bears. One of them weighed over 450 pounds,” Rolling said. The bears had come looking for a midnight snack.” They come back every night, and they grab a little cone off the hive and leave,” Rolling said.

Rolling has been stung several times.”I was really concerned that my 7-year-old is going to be here, and it wouldn’t take very many big stings to seriously hurt her,” Rolling said. Bears tend to come out more in Florida’s  winter months.”The bears don’t have much to eat, so that protein source from the beehive is great for them,” he said. “I’m sure they don’t mind the honey either. I’m sure that’s a bonus.” It was estimated that  nearly 50,000 bees were there before the three bears upset the whole thing. The bees and preying yellow jackets were removed.

October 22, 2010

(CNN) — Africanized honey bees have been confirmed in Georgia and are responsible for the death of a 73-year-old man, the state’s agricultural commissioner said Thursday.

Curtis Davis of Dougherty County in southwest Georgia last week accidentally disturbed a colony of bees while he was clearing bush with his bulldozer, CNN affiliate WFXL reported. He received more than 100 stings.

“This is the first record of Africanized honeybees in Georgia,” Agricultural Commissioner Tommy Irvin said in a statement about the entomological tests.

Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as “killer bees,” were believed to have entered Texas in 1990 and have since spread to about 10 other states from California to Florida.

Because of the similarity of the appearance of European honeybees and Africanized bees, the insects from the Dougherty County incident had to be tested to ascertain their identity. Irvin said they are less predictable than European honey bees.

Africanized honey bees, which are hybrids of African and European bees, can be highly defensive around their nests and swarm more frequently than other honey bees, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The venom carried by honey bees has similar potency.

Irvin, who urged people to be cautious around nests, said employees will monitor and trap “bee swarms to try to find where any Africanized honey bees are.”

He stressed that European honey bees are important for the pollination of many crops.

Host Chatsworth and Lake Balboa Birmingham will resume play Wednesday after a swarm of bees camps out on a fence at the field.

Eric Sondheimer

8:44 PM PDT, April 6, 2010

Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times

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