I have a friend who used to raise queens. He said if a hive got
aggressive (post africanized bees) he'd just kill the queen and they
would come up with a new one.

If the city gets wind of the hive they will come in and kill the bees
for liability reasons; also unfortunately the africanized bees really
are dangerous a lot of the time. If you are aware that they are
"bumping" you in warning you can get away from them, but the size of a
bee bump doesn't get most people's attention, even if they did know
what it was about. A friend of mine accidentally disturbed a hive in a
dead tree in a wash, and he had to run about 1/2 mile to get away from
them. He's athletic, but also deathly allergic; he got one sting on
his hand, which was swelled up to twice its size for nearly a week. He
felt lucky the sting was on an extremity.

So... do be careful, not only for yourself but for any other living
creature that may be in the vicinity.

MA

On 6/23/09, crabrangoon1988 <crabrangoon1988@...> wrote:
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> There is a beehive on 5th ave. near Tucson High School. It is on the left
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