Bee Attacks Across the Country Lead to Questions About 'Killer Bees' - ABC News

 

A string of recent bee attacks in Florida, California, Texas and Arizona have left both humans and animals injured this summer. (Getty Images)

Those attacks were the latest in a series of particularly aggressive bee swarms this summer in Florida, California, Texas and Arizona. They have attacked people, dogs and horses. So far, an 82-year-old man in Brownsville, Texas, and a horse have died from the shower of stingers.

But at least one bee expert rejects the suggestion that bees have been unusually aggressive this summer.

Dr. May Berenbaum, a professor and department head at the University of Illinois' Department of Entomology and one of the country's leading bee experts, said that roughly 40 people die from bee attacks per year—which she prefers to call "bee encounters" or "sting events"—out of a population of over 300 million people.

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