David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: Noturus2-in-aol.com
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:50 pm
Subject: NANFA-L-- perils of Fla collecting
> I was out collecting fish this past Tuesday about 7 miles south of
> South
> Bay, Florida. It was off Rt 27 sugar cane country. There are
> irrigation ditches
> alongside the fields of sugar cane. Driving along the ditches
> looked weedy and
> I thought a good collecting opportunity.
> I pulled off the highway got out my net and some breathing bags
> just in case
> I caught something interesting.
> I began dipping and caught a few Mayan cichlids, Lucania goodei
> and
> gambusia. Up ahead the ditch looked better so I began to move up
> the bank. There
> was an old rubber truck tire that I hit with my foot. Almost
> immediately a
> swarm of bees came up out of the tire targeting my ears and neck.
> I scrambled up
> the bank screaming all the way, got to my car which of course I
> had locked. I
> fumbled for my keys and got in. Lots of bees in the car and plenty
> more
> outside. I scraped what I could off and drove a ways away and
> opened the windows
> to let out most of the bees. I kept finding one in my shirt one in
> my shorts
> etc.
> Almost-in-once my lips and ears began to swell. I had some water
> in the car
> and washed off where most of the stings were. I also had some
> Aleve with me
> and took a couple. I picked stings out of me for about 20 miles
> down the road.
> I'm not allergic but was thankful I survived the attack.
> All in all a pretty horrific event. I looked-in-some bee sites on
> the
> Internet and am sure that these were africanized honey bees.
> Andy Borgia
> Key West, Fl
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