Bee Aggression Rising

[Jacob Petersheim]

Something Is Seriously Wrong with the Bees—and It’s Not What You Think

Serious bee attacks. Even going after and killing horses. Not just animals either, but people are dying as well.

Not just in the US, but all over the world.

Some of it seems to involve Africanized bees, others blame the aggression on hostility levels rising due to invasive species such as Asian hornets attacking hives.

 

[Don Alaska]

African bees have been aggressive since they arrived in the U.S., but attacks have been rare. Interesting if they are getting worse. They cannot survive here, so the winters will protect us.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

African bees have been aggressive since they arrived in the U.S., but attacks have been rare. Interesting if they are getting worse. They cannot survive here, so the winters will protect us.

Ahh, but the strange behavior is not just Africanized bees. Those are limited to Southern states. The problems are also popping up globally, not just in the Americas where the aggressive hybrid bees were introduced.

This guy seems to lay much of this to solar activity and changes in geomagnetism in the last few years. He seems to think this bee behavior is a warning of other things to come.

 

[Bobby Cole]

I haven’t seen any rise in bee activity around my neck of the woods and as a matter of fact, even the carpenter bees aren’t as prevalent as they usually are.

We do however, have one species of wasp that I have never seen before around here.
It’s small, yellow-ish and makes a nest with only 4-6 cells in it and has a sting that definitely got my attention. Normally, bees, hornets and wasps will return to their nests around nightfall but these critters are attracted to the lit up porch no matter what time of night it is.
It was about 9 PM when I simply sat back on my rocking chair and yup, one was on the back of the chair and made its presence known in a painful way.