Originally published on 01 July, 2015
Hundreds of Africanized ‘killer’ honey bees are thought to have killed a farmer in southern Texas on Sunday.
Rogelio Zuniga, 53, was dragging a disk with a tractor on a field when the disk hit an old irrigation pipe and punctured the pipe. The pipe contained a honeycomb that stretched 15 to 20 feet long and housed what was probably a population of “killer” bees.
Zuniga jumped off his tractor and tried to run away, but the bees swarmed on top of him and stung him to death. Family members found Zuniga dead at the scene and called exterminators to get rid of the colony.
The Africanized honey bee, a hybrid between the European honey bee and the African honey bee, first appeared in the U.S. in 1990 near Zuniga’s farm in Rio Hondo, Texas. The mutant honey bee contains the same amount of venom as the European honey bee, but the former is deadly because they are more aggressive and attack in swarms.
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