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Posted: 9/1/2022 9:02:47 PM EDT
https://people.com/human-interest/20-year-old-ohio-man-expected-to-recover-after-being-stung-20000-times-by-bees-family-says/
"He had bees inside of him, and they suctioned bees out of him until Sunday morning," Austin Bellamy's mother Shawna Carter told a local news station of her son The incident occurred when Austin Bellamy, 20, climbed a tree Friday morning to help a friend trim its branches before he accidentally cut into a nest full of African killer bees, his mother Shawna Carter wrote on a GoFundMe page established to help with his medical expenses. Research from the United States Department of Agriculture shows that Africanized honey bees "are more defensive, stinging more with less provocation than other honey bees." According to WCPO-TV, Carter said the Ripley Fire Department told her the bees were killer bees. Per the outlet, a Southwest Ohio Beekeepers Association spokesperson said a bee sample would need to be analyzed to identify the species. |
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I got hit with 14 yellow jackets at one time and my arm felt like it was in a blacksmiths forge for hours. It was painful. I can’t imagine over 20,000 stings
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Probably takes a crapton of benadryl to bring that swelling down.
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Sounds like racism in the attack I bet good money those were white European colonization bees.
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Africanized is a problematic term. Perhaps they just need better education funding
Also killer bees were up there with quicksand in my youthful worries. I still haven't run across either |
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He didn't know how to climb down and run? I would have jumped out of the tree.
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Quoted: Haven't heard much of african bees for a while. View Quote There was an ongoing effort to cross them back again with the Italian honey bee; this to make them more docile but retain resistance to the bee mite Varroa Destructor. African honey bees groom themselves more aggressively than other species and as a result, bee mites don't get under their scales as often. |
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The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio (Official Video) |
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Quoted: Actually no, we released them here. It was an experiment of some sorts. I'm pretty sure it was government funded. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Killer bees, another gift from south of the border. I'm pretty sure it was government funded. The original release was done in Brazil. Accidentally. See my earlier post referencing V. Destructor - entomologists were looking for a solution to this pest. |
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Quoted: Killer bee's in Ohio? I'd be surprised if that was true. View Quote Keep telling yourself that Gringo. Attached File |
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Damn, that is awful. Article said he also ingested 30 bees and was having kidney failure.
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Damn, I took 20 shots from a nest of Yellow Jackets last week and thought I was a Bad Ass.
Fucking little bastards defended that nest till I killed every one of them. |
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Central and South Texas is ate up with killer bees.
They ain’t no joke. Friend of got stung about 750 times on an open cab dozer. |
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Do these hurt as badly as a yellow jacket? Got stung like 6 or 7 times in the face/head by those bastards, and I looked like Sloth from The Goonies. They hurt like a bitch. I cannot imagine 100 stings let alone 20,000 if they're even half as bad.
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/147899/BF4E3A7A-17AF-4B91-9281-C0CE49408B39_jpe-2511350.JPGI like bees. View Quote |
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Damn, I took 20 shots from a nest of Yellow Jackets last week and thought I was a Bad Ass.
Fucking little bastards defended that nest till I killed every one of them. |
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Wu Tang killa bees?
Ain’t nothing to fuck with, that Wu Tang Clan. |
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Quoted: Africanized is a problematic term. Perhaps they just need better education funding Also killer bees were up there with quicksand in my youthful worries. I still haven't run across either View Quote Haha me too! I remember watching documentaries when I was like 8-10 and thinking killer bees were going to be what would kill us all. |
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My wife was stung by a hornet today. Maybe as many as three times.
I had to rub Hydrocortisone into her ass for a few minutes, then I gave her a benadryl. She's feeling better now, but will probably take another benadryl before bedtime. 20,000 stings seems excessive. |
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I forgot what book it is (I have it upstairs), but it was something along the lines of practical magic. It was quasi-science and included things like making dyes, dyeing the hair, making fake gold and one entry was how to disguise oneself such that your wife wouldn't know you. It said to get stung by thousands of bees or hornets.
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/147899/BF4E3A7A-17AF-4B91-9281-C0CE49408B39_jpe-2511350.JPGI like bees. View Quote Who says money doesn’t grow on trees. Nice swarm there. Easy pickings. |
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Quoted: I forgot what book it is (I have it upstairs), but it was something along the lines of practical magic. It was quasi-science and included things like making dyes, dyeing the hair, making fake gold and one entry was how to disguise oneself such that your wife wouldn't know you. It said to get stung by thousands of bees or hornets. View Quote |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/147899/BF4E3A7A-17AF-4B91-9281-C0CE49408B39_jpe-2511350.JPGI like bees. View Quote 7.5 12 gauge shot gun pellets work well on those. |
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Quoted: Also the 20,000 stings. Nobody survives that. Nobody. Story is full of wtf. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I am going to probably say no on the African Killer Bees Story is full of wtf. Something like 250 can be fatal. Pretty sure 20,000 WILL be fatal. That kind of volume, you're getting more venom than you get from a severe diamondback rattlesnake bite-and I think bee venom is more toxic(in equal amounts) |
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Quoted: Also the 20,000 stings. Nobody survives that. Nobody. Story is full of wtf. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I am going to probably say no on the African Killer Bees Story is full of wtf. Let alone Bees...inside him? Like, bees are into buttstuff or ? |
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Goes to check the Africanized bee range in Michigan.
Looks like the freezing weather keeps that riff-raff out too! |
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No doubt he got messed up, but there's no way he was stung 20K times. He would be deader than a door nail right now.
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There was some moron in a thread yesterday, who said “I’m still waiting on those killer bees”. Well, now you know where to find them Einstein.
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Quoted: Joke's on you, man, after the 15th sting you don't feel them anymore! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I got hit with 14 yellow jackets at one time and my arm felt like it was in a blacksmiths forge for hours. It was painful. I can't imagine over 20,000 stings The hell you don't. My personal best is 16 yellow jackets all over my head and upper body. Walked by a clothesline pole full of them as a kid. Dad torched them. |
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