Elderly woman stung by HUNDREDS of bees outside her home before falling to the ground
Disturbing moment when elderly woman is stung by HUNDREDS of bees outside her home and stumbles to her car before falling to the ground: ‘They were relentless’
- The victim, identified as Linda, was walking outside her home in Murietta on Wednesday when she was ambushed by hundreds of bees
- Chuck, a witness, said his neighbor was completely covered from the waist down
- The woman miraculously survived, but suffered nearly a thousand bee stings
An elderly woman miraculously survived after sustaining nearly a thousand bee stings in an attack by two to three bee colonies outside her California home.
The victim, identified as Linda, was walking outside her home in Murietta, a town in southwestern Riverside County, around 2 p.m. Wednesday when she was ambushed by hundreds of bees that surrounded her.
Mobile phone footage captured the terrifying scene as the woman, whose face was hidden by her hair, holds a yellow bag as she tries to swat away the swarming and buzzing bees, trying to move.
A neighbor named Chuck, who witnessed the attack, reported it KTLA News that the ‘bees were ruthless’.
“She was completely covered from the waist down,” he said. “She stumbled to where her car was and then fell to the ground.”
The woman is depicted surrounded by swarming and stinging bees. A neighbor who witnessed the terrifying scene said she was ‘completely covered from the waist down’
The victim tries to fight off the swarm of bees that ambushed her outside her home in Murietta, California, Wednesday afternoon
He said that the bees had also attacked other people that day.
Another neighbor, who recorded the ambush and rushed to the woman’s aid, said she tried to help until she was attacked.
“I tried to spray her with a garden hose, but they started attacking me,” she said. “So I ran into the neighbor’s garage and then I ran back to get my phone, and then I called 911.”
When emergency personnel from the Murrieta Fire and Rescue arrived, the bees continued to swarm and sting. A firefighter has gone to the hospital.
Firefighters doused the woman’s house with foam and water in concentrated areas of the house to wipe out the nest and bees.
Murietta firefighters arrive on the scene to eradicate the bees and their nests. Crews are on site and are attempting to use foam and water
The woman was taken to hospital for treatment and later allowed to go home.
Chris Maas of Bee Removal Pros, who was called to the scene, told KTLA News he believes the bees came from two or three colonies with separate queens.
Maas said he estimated about 100,000 bees based on the number of colonies present.
The colonies were found in the walls of the woman’s home, a problem neighbors said occurred in that home and location, with many people previously stung, the news outlet said.
The woman who lives there never had the colonies removed.
According to the Australian Academy of Sciences a typical honey bee hive contains about 60,000 to 80,000 individuals of three different types of bees.
The workers, also known as foragers, as soon as they begin to leave the hive. Drones are another bee, and finally a single queen. The single queen bee has a larger abdomen than other bees and can sting repeatedly without dying.