An elderly woman was stung at least 1,000 times after being attacked by hundreds of bees outside her home in California.
The woman, identified only by her first name, Linda, was attacked while walking to her car in Murietta, Riverside County, earlier this week.
Cellphone footage captured the horrifying scene as she held up a yellow bag and tried to swat the swarm away from her.
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,’ he said.
The woman, identified only by her first name, Linda, was attacked while walking to her car in Murietta, Riverside County, earlier this week
The victim is seen trying to swat off the swarm of bees that ambushed her outside her Murietta, California home on Wednesday afternoon
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. At least one of the firemen was hospitalized.
After the attack, fire crews doused the woman’s home with foam and water in concentrated areas 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 there were about 100,000 bees in the area based on the number of colonies that were present.
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.
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