What to do if a bee follows you?

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What to do if a bee follows you?

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answered Aug 9, 2022 by Kgarfield (6,410 points)
If a bee follows you remain calm and continue walking away from it.

Don't try swatting at the bee or provoke it in any way and they will typically leave you alone.

Bees do remember you as they have the ability to recognize and remember human faces.

Bees like the humans who take good care of them.

Bees can detect human faces, which means they can recognize, and build trust with their human caretakers.

If you find a swarm or a nest of bees, please do not attempt to remove the nest or eradicate the colony yourself.

You can get rid of Africanized Killer bees by torching the killer bees nest which will kill them.

Wasp spray may also work but you have to stand quite a ways from them or use a bee keeper suit to protect you from the bees.

Another option which is even better is to call a pest control place that can safely kill the Africanized killer bees.

When Africanized bees chase you they will chase you for up to 1/4 mile before they decide to quit chasing you.

Africanized bees do chase you when they see you as a threat.

When you provoke them or you get to close or run away from them the Africanized bees will chase you as a natural defense which is in their instinct.

States that have Africanized bees are southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and central and southern Florida.

If a killer bee stings you it can cause severe but temporary pain and sometimes if enough venom is injected into you then you may also experience other health issues such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dangerous effects on the blood, muscle, liver and kidneys.

Africanized bees are aggressive because of their natural environment has far more predators looking to destroy hives for honey.

Africanized bees will swarm around 16 times per year.

Unlike disturbing a European bee colony where someone might get stung up to 20 times, or 200 times if the entire colony was disturbed, an Africanized colony could sting its victim or victims up to 2,000 times.

Africanized bees are not very common in Texas although you do find quite a bit of Africanized bees in most parts of Texas.

Africanized and killer bees are now endemic to much of southernmost Texas.

The first introduction of the Africanized Honey Bee into the U.S. occurred in the fall of 1990 in south Texas.

This bee, a hybrid from the African honey bee queens that originally escaped from a researcher in Brazil in 1957, had been moving northward slowly for several years as the bees swarmed and absconded.

Africanized bees come from Brazil which is where they were first inadvertently released and then they spread to the south as far as northern Argentina and to the north into the United States, as well as throughout much of South and Central America.

Killer bees are becoming more docile and they are also very aggressive bees and will sting in great numbers.

Killer bees will pursue a threat for up to a quarter of a mile."

Africanized honey bees are very protective of their nests.

They patrol a wide perimeter and may attack with little provocation.

You can survive a killer bee sting and not everyone is allergic to the sting of a killer bee but some people can experience serious health issues if not treated.

If you do get stung by a killer bee you should always seek medical treatment just to be safe.

Getting stung by a killer be can cause health issues such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dangerous effects on the blood, muscle, liver and kidneys.

Killer bees live on average of 1 year to 3 years although some killer bees may only live a few weeks.

And if a killer bee stings you then they lose their stinger and die.

Killer bees don't sting for no reason and most often killer bees chase you and sting you when you get too close to their nest or colony as a defense.

So even though you didn't provoke the killer bees they can chase and sting you when they think you're a threat so it's best to try to avoid areas where killer bees are nesting.

Killer bees also known as Africanized bees are called Killer Bees because of their defensive nature and the fact they they chase you when threatened and a sting from killer bees can sometimes kill people who are allergic to them as well.

Killer bees stay mad for at least a few days although some killer bees may stay mad for as long as a week or two.

The difference between honey bees and Africanized bees is in their defense and response to threats as Africanized honey bees are more aggressive and will send more bees to attack when they feel threatened.

Africanized "killer" bees look so much like domestic honey bees that the only way to tell the two apart is by measuring their bodies.

Africanized bees are slightly smaller than their counterpart and they are also golden yellow with darker bands of brown.

You can sometimes outrun Africanized bees and you should try to outrun Africanized bees if they are chasing you.

Then try to get into a car or building away from them.

If you see a killer bee you should call 911 if they are chasing you or someone.

If a swarm of killer bees are trying to attack someone call 911 as the killer bees can be deadly to some people especially if they attack and sting that person.

The fire department has a special solution that they can spray for the killer bees to help them disperse.

If under attack by an Africanized honeybee, run quickly away in a zig zag pattern and seek shelter indoors or in a car as soon as possible.

Smoke does calm killer bees as killer bees and other honey bees are very sensitive to smoke and will get calmer and even leave the area that they are smoked out of.

Smoke does calm Africanized bees as well as other bees because when bees including Africanized bees smell smoke they think it's a forest fire, causing them to leave and most likely never come back.

Honey bees and Africanized bees are actually very sensitive to smoke.

Africanized bees do lose their stinger when they sting and then they die.

Once you get stung by the Africanized bee the stinger will be left in you and then the Africanized bee eventually dies so they only sting once.

Even though the Africanized honey bee can only sting once, losing its stinger in the process of stinging its victim, the stingers must be removed because they continue to release venom into the wound, if only for a short period of time.

Africanized bees are eaten by honey badgers, safari ants, bee wolves, bears, armadillos, anteaters and even ants.

Just like any honey bee race, Africanized honey bees are pollen and nectar feeders and excellent pollinators.

They Africanized honey bee feeds on both nectar and pollen from flowering plants.

The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee and known colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee, produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee and the Iberian honey bee.

African honeybees are much more hostile than European varieties, as their natural environment has far more predators looking to destroy hives for honey.

Coordinated defensive manoeuvres enable African bees to better fend off these attacks.

Africanized Honey Bees also known as killer bees are dangerous because they attack intruders in numbers much greater than European Honey Bees.

Since their introduction into Brazil, Africanized bees have killed some 1,000 humans, with victims receiving ten times as many stings than from the European strain.

Africanized honey bees are considered an invasive species in the Americas.

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