Honey bee attack: One dead, three critical in Kendrapara

[Chad]

Apparently seeking shade from the 'blistering heat' - there has been a heatwave in India recently.

Man killed by honey bees

Press Trust of India | Kendrapara (Odisha) April 24, 2016 Last Updated at 16:02 IST

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A 62-year-old man died after being stung by honey bees in Kendrapara district today while two others including the deceased's son were hospitalised with bee stings.

The deceased has been identified as Sarbeswar Nayak (62) native of Kabilipur village under Patkura police station jurisdiction, police said.

The injured persons Prasanna Nayak (35) and Sudhir Mallik (55) undergoing treatment in the government-run Patkura hospital are stated to be out of danger, they said.

To beat the blistering heat, the victims were taking rest under the shed of a banyan tree when a swarm of honey bees moved out of the beehive from the tree and attacked them all on a sudden, police added.

Also from the same site, last month:

Man dies as honey bees attack funeral procession

Press Trust of India | Sangareddy March 15, 2016 Last Updated at 21:48 IST

A man died and several others were injured when honey bees attacked a funeral procession in Medak district of Telangana today.

Sub-inspector Satyanarayan of Zaheerabad rural police station said the incident took place at Hoti K village.

When funeral procession of an old woman who died in the village was underway, a swarm of bees attacked it on the outskirts of the village. Jagan (50), native of Jhadi Malkapur village, died, while some 30 others were injured.

And last year:

Three injured in bee attack
PTI
Posted at: Jul 13 2015 6:36PM

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At least three persons including two minor boys were injured after being stung by honey bees in Kendrapara district's Dasipur village under Aul police station jurisdiction.

The injured persons were hospitalised and they were reported to be out of danger, the police said.

The victims, while plucking leaves from a mango tree were attacked by the bees, they added.

 

[loreta]

Thanks for these news. How strange that bees, that are usually really gentle, attack humans. So I think this can be another sign of these times concerning the strange behaviour or the animal realm. And bees are particularly sensible to changes, I image to weather changes or earth changes (radiations, etc) and they are so intelligent that this attitude is a real sign. MSG crops also are surely responsible of their rage. I imagine they know that stinging they will die.

I found this information about agression of bees:

General honeybee aggression
Honeybees generally attack only to defend their colony, but will also attack if they are seriously disturbed outside the nest. Common sources of attack stimulus for honeybees include alarm pheromone, vibrations, carbon dioxide, hair, and dark colors (Crane 1990).

This makes sense because mammals, which are common predators of bees, are usually hairy, dark colored, and exhale carbon dioxide. If you think about this you will realize that bees are drawn towards attacking sensitive areas around the head of a common predator.

Stinging is the ultimate final act of a honeybee because soon after, she will die. First the bee becomes alerted; she takes on a guarding stance and protrudes the sting, which recruits other bees by releasing alarm pheromone. Secondly, the bee will search for the source of stimulus and orient towards it. Finally she will attack; emitting a high pitched buzz and making body thrusts towards the source of disturbance. In such a defense response, honeybees rarely pursue stimuli for long distances (although Africanized bees can pursue victims for hundreds of meters. If a sting does occur, the bee will die soon after stinging because the sting is left behind and the bee disembowels itself in flying away. Once the bee’s sting is inside a victim, it pumps out more venom and emits alarm pheromones. During this time, the stinging bee will spend its dying moments distracting its victim by flying around its head as if it were going to sting again.

http://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/nieh/TeachingBee/honeybee_aggession.htm

what is strange is that they were honey bees, that in principle are not agressive. There is the African Bees or "killer bees", (and I think a danger for the honey bees), that are really mad. Here is a video about them and how to survive if you are attacked by them.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/10/how_to_survive_killer_bees_arizona_attack_reminds_of_africanized_bees_danger.html

 

[SummerLite]

This is the second thread on attacking bees recently and this time honey bees in particular. Once again certain thoughts come to mind and this time I'll share.

For me there is a special meaning for the honey bees in our world. It is hard to put into words and somewhat vague but I'll try. Its though they are a intricate and fundamental representative of the planet being. "They have a direct link into the source". And this is perhaps one reason they have been considered noble.

A dream I had 20 years ago: I was sitting in a city court yard surrounded by trees and greenery. Close by 3 men, who where robbers, where making their get away after stealing gold from a shop. A swarm of honey bees rushed in and attacked the men viciously. As I watched I became fearful as I was so close and thought they may come for me next. But they paid no attention to me and I was left alone. I was ok with them it seemed.

I did a little search here on the symbolism of bees, trying to gain more insight into this "perception" of mine. Its something thats been discussed quite a bit it seems.

I read recently in The Wave this passage which mentions bees and so caught my attention. In my search, I found it again in this thread where a dream is shared where Laura becomes a bee. http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,13812.msg124460.html#msg124460

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Shaman is another way to describe the Warrior who practices to be free. A Shaman is not a magician or a sorcerer although he CAN play those roles if he chooses. He is not a healer, though he can play that role also. A Shaman is far more; he is a psychopomp, a priest, a mystic and a poet. Shamanism is NOT a religion, it is a function, a role, a magico-religious phenomenon specific to certain individuals who have ecstatic capacity permitting "magical flight" to higher realms, descent into the underworld to battle dark forces, mastery over fire, matter, time and space. Unfortunately, as Don Juan noted, in the present time, the Shamanic acts are acts of great laxity, distortion and aberration.

The word "shaman" comes to us through Russian from the Tungusic "saman." The word is derived from the Pali samana, (Sanskrit sramana), through the Chinese sha-men (a transcription of the Pali word).

The word shaman, may be related to Sarman. According to John G. Bennett, Sarmoung or Sarman:

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"The pronunciation is the same for either spelling and the word can be assigned to old Persian. It does, in fact, appear in some of the Pahlawi texts...The word can be interpreted in three ways. It is the word for bee, which has always been a symbol of those who collect the precious 'honey' of traditional wisdom and preserve it for further generations. A collection of legends, well known in Armenian and Syrian circles with the title of The Bees, was revised by Mar Salamon, a Nestorian Archimandrite in the thirteenth century. The Bees refers to a mysterious power transmitted from the time of Zoroaster and made manifest in the time of Christ."

"Man" in Persian means "the quality transmitted by heredity and hence a distinguished family or race. It can be the repository of an heirloom or tradition. The word sar means head, both literally and in the sense of principal or chief. The combination sarman would thus mean the chief repository of the tradition..."

"And still another possible meaning of the word sarman is... literally, those whose heads have been purified." [John G. Bennett, Gurdjieff: Making of A New World]

Now the bees are attacking. Humanity has become "robbers of the gold."

Very interesting the symbolism of Bees.