Disturbing moment elderly woman is stung by HUNDREDS of bees outside her home and staggers 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 overcome by hundreds of bees
- Chuck, a witness, said his neighbor was fully covered from the waist up
- The woman miraculously survived but sustained nearly one thousand bee stings
An elderly woman miraculously survived after she sustained 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 city in southwestern Riverside County, on Wednesday around 2pm when she was overcome by hundreds of bees who surrounded her.
Cell phone footage captured the terrifying scene as the woman, whose face was concealed by her hair, holds a yellow bag trying to swat the swarming and buzzing bees away, as she attempts to move.
A neighbor named Chuck, who witnessed the attack told KTLA News that the ‘bees were relentless.’
‘She was fully covered from the waist up,’ he said. ‘She staggered to where her car is, and then she fell to the ground.’
The woman is pictured surrounded by swarming and stinging bees. A neighbor who witnessed the terrifying scene said she was ‘fully covered from the waist up’
The victim is seen trying to swat off the swarm of bees that ambushed her outside her Murietta, California home on Wednesday afternoon
He said the bees had also been attacking other people that day.
Another neighbor, who recorded the ambush and rushed to the woman’s aid, said she tried to help until she started getting attacked.
‘I tried to spray her with a hose, but they started attacking me,’ she said. ‘So I ran into the neighbor’s garage and then I ran back out to get my phone, and that’s when I called 911.’
When emergency personnel from the Murrieta Fire and Rescue arrived the bees continued to swarm and sting them. One fireman went to the hospital.
Fire crews doused the woman’s home with foam and water in concentrated areas of the home to exterminate the nest and the bees.
Murietta Firefighters arrive at the scene trying to exterminate the bees and their nests. Crews are scene trying to use foam and water
The woman was transported to the hospital for treatment and was later released.
Chris Maas with Bee Removal Pros, who was called to the scene told KTLA News that 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 – two maybe three that were present – with separate queens.
The colonies were found in the walls of the woman’s home, a problem neighbors said that had been going on at that home and in that location with many people getting stung before, the news outlet said.
The woman who lives there never had the colonies removed.
According to the Australian Academy of Science a typical honeybee hive contains about 60,000 to 80,000 individuals of three different kinds of bees.
The workers, also known as foragers, once they begin to leave the hive. Drones are another bee, and lastly a single queen. The single queen bee have a larger abdomen than other bees and are able to sting repeatedly without dying.
