A swarm of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of bees attacked an 80-year-old man and killed his pet beagle Thursday, and agriculture officials said it could be the state’s first brush with the infamous Africanized “killer” bees.
“Bees were all over the place out here, all along for a couple of blocks back, flying through there,” said Robert Cherry, who was stung six times in the head. “They just went wild.”
Cherry was wheeling a garbage can back to his house when he saw a cloud of bees attacking his dog, Theo. When he rushed out to the pen to try to save the beagle, Cherry was stung and had to retreat. The dog had been stung more than 1,000 times.
State entomologist Harry Fulton said, “This is an isolated incident, we hope.”
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