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SFGate is reporting that Africanized honeybees, aka killer bees, have been found in the Bay Area for the first time, specifically in Reliez Valley in Lafayette. Although the article notes that, “people should not be too concerned” and that there could be benefits since they could replace the European honeybees that are dying out, Brian Johnson, a honeybee researcher at UC Davis emphasized that, “the bees do pose danger wherever they are present.”
At the bottom of the article is a section titled, “How to get away from attacking bees”. What struck me the most was this:
Don’t jump in a swimming pool or bodies of water to get away. They have been known to wait for people to surface.
I thought I only had to worry about mountain lions and now this!?