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CUTLER BAY, Fla. (WSVN) -- Two battling colonies made up of millions of bees have died after invading a South Florida home.
The bees were found inside the Hernandez home, at 9394 SW 212th Terrace, Tuesday morning. According to the homeowner, Miguel Hernandez, he woke up and found his home surrounded by bees. Speaking in Spanish, Hernandez said, "I went out of my front door, and the entry was full of bees, so I called 911. The fire department told me to lock myself in the bathroom. They got here, and they were not able to enter because of all the bees flying around."
What set them off this morning is hard to say, maybe one bee from one colony said something about the queen from the other colony, that got a bee from that colony mad?
Though it might have been a preemptive strike by one side as they theorized the bees in the other colony would eventually attack them?
Originally posted by SPACEYstranger
Bee wars! dope.
This got me looking into bee wars on youtube, which lead me to kids blowing up bees with fire crackers. For that i am grateful
As for why? probably territorial. Apparently both colonies lived side-by-side in this guys attic.
Wheres the flamethrower when ya need one?
What amazes me about that is, I can't believe both bee populations were identical. It seems like one colony might be 100,000 bees and another colony might be 150,000 so that when all the stingers were used up, there were 50,000 bees leftover from one colony, for example. But to have exactly the same number in each colony? There must have been at least a few left that high tailed it out of there, I can't believe the number in each colony was an exact match.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
According to the exterminator the eventually all killed each other in the battle, evidently leaving him just the cleanup and removal.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by Aquarius1
This is a really bizarre story, and maybe even the first of its kind ever documented. I did an Internet Search on “Bee Wars” and “Honey Bee Wars” and came up with no cases of bees attacking one another like this in mass. There was a Indian War known as the Bee War, and some Honey Wars between rival states and farmers, but nothing on bees warring with one another.