If anything is going to help me get out of yet another posting drought, it’s going to be the need to make Carin aware that hundreds of bees recently attacked a bunch of people and that nobody quite knows why it happened.
Several dozen people were injured – with three rushed to hospital in a critical condition – in an unusual bee attack in a French town, local authorities said.
Twenty-four passersby were hurt when hundreds of bees suddenly attacked people in the central-southern town of Aurillac on Sunday morning. The three in a critical condition are now stable.
According to local media, one of them was a 78-year-old woman who was stung 25 times and had to be resuscitated after a cardiorespiratory arrest.
Police and firefighters fenced off the area and a beekeeper was called in to smoke out the bees – a safe way to calm the insects.
A local woman called Andrée said she witnessed “very panicked people” trying to bat off the bees. “I could tell they were being attacked by something but I couldn’t figure out what,” she told French media.
Depending on who you ask, the blame belongs to a group of threatening Asian hornets taunting the bees, the colony somehow becoming larger than it should have and getting overly active, stress due to a problem with the queen, early blossoming that lead to less food for them later on, or maybe just the weather being up and down.
The bees have been moved to an area outside of town, so I suppose there’s no need to worry about the cause unless you decide to take a walk in the country.