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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REPRINT ARTICLE ARCHIVES => Topic started by: lisascenic on July 03, 2010, 03:15:50 am
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You just can't make this stuff up.
(Link to Article (http://www.ktvu.com/news/24130815/detail.html))
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Thats just crazy.
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Turns out that the culprits were two wasp nest, in a palm tree. One of our local beekeepers' sons was stung by a wasp near that very spot the day before. Crazy.
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See, the bees get the bad name when they were not actually involved.
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Well it *was* dark when the stinging happened.
And many of the news sites have http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inalameda/detail?&entry_id=67169updated their articles (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inalameda/detail?&entry_id=67169updated their articles) to say that it was wasps, not bees.
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Rule #1, never use fireworks on any type of bees nest, unless you have a video camera ready.
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This proves my theory that not every other person I run across is allergic to stings, like they say they are.
...JP
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JP, if everyone wasn't "deathly allergic" to bees we wouldn't get near the removal calls that we do!
Scott
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I don't think that it should be the bees getting the bad name. (http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/ottawa_county/3-hurt-by-fireworks-at-Ottawa-Co-home)
If only a few wasp stings were all that anybody suffered from fireworks.