Well, the afro/euro bee thing was what everyone was concerned about in
this case. There apparently were several stories in Tampa about an afro
bee invasion. The line crew said the bees starting hitting the car
whenever it got close. They also said that when they started to close a
nearby hangar door, the bees collected there.

Like I said, I stayed at the FBO desk and the restaurant. Personally, I
don't discriminate and try to stay away from both Afro and Euro types.

Mauledriver, aka Bill Watson, aka Foureyes

nooneimportant wrote:
"John Galban" wrote in message

Yeah, the africanized bees are a bit on the scary side. Place i used to
hunt at in Texas had an old farm house we used as our deer cabin, had a nice
large colony of bees in between some of the walls of the old house, but they
never bothered us, assumed they were the nice and gentle mannered eurobees.
Within a few weeks that changed drastically. I was minding my own business
outside, nowhere near the entrance to the nesting area, and doing nothing
threatening when i got stung on the forehead.... didn't take long before a
rather large group of them was headed my way.... nedless to say I hauled ass
and got away with only that one sting. Dad and I decided to go ahead and
pull out of the house and tentcamp in a different area, and as we are
pulling out my dad gets hit, and as he's running my way there are at least
40 bees circling his head, he got hit twice. They are kind of a double
doozie... they are quite agressive... Carbon dioxide is a threat scent for
them, so they seem to get ****ed off for us and other critters to simply
breathe in a manner that they can smell it. Second is the sting, the
phermone emmited by the venom is a like a "Sting here! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!"
sign, and although eorubees have this same phermone, it is not anywhere near
as strong as the afrobees. That aside they can be fairly easy to escape
from, a good run away trick works wonders, they don't really seem to chase
as far as the "Killer Bee" scare tends to portray, in my case a good 50
yards and I was in the clear. If I was to see a bee-ball on an aircraft i
was flying, I would be quite disenclined to commit to aviation that day,
especially out here in central AZ where you are just as likely to stumble on
afrobees as eurobees. I really don't want to take that chance. If they
seem to want to hang around call the ag extension office, see what they
suggest, if anything, besides waiting them out. I would only hit the
chemical warefare tactic IF i had good protection, full bee suit etc.