Bee chase leads Monroe grade school into lockdown

[marmar]

OP's comment: The yellowjackets are complete psychos this time of year.



(Detroit Free Press) An elementary school in Monroe went into partial lockdown mode last week when a man was spotted yelling and running across school grounds.

Turns out it was a neighborhood resident who had good reason to be on the run − he was being chased by a swarm of bees.

According to a letter sent home to parents of students at Arborwood Elementary School, a man was spotted running onto the school’s property last Thursday, prompting the school to go into precautionary secure mode in which the building’s exterior doors lock while classes resume inside as normal.

However, when School Resource Officer Josh Sawdy responded, it was determined that the man was only a petrified neighbor fleeing from the bees in his yard. ............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/09/10/monroe-school-lockdown-bee-chase-running-from-bees/70817912007/

[riversedge]

1. how frightful for this man. I am allergic to bees and carry an Epi pen. When

I see just one bee--I head in the other direction pronto!!

[getagrip_already]

2. Odd....

In general, bee "swarms" are not aggressive. They may be scary, but they don't attack people because they aren't defending a colony.

Now if he stumbled across a ground hive of hornets, or swatted a hornets nest in a tree or bush, they'd teach him a lesson.

But honeybees could care less about people while they are swarming. You can get stung, but only while trying to capture the swarm, and usually only by the grumpy ones (there's always one).

Africaninized bees are another story though. I never see those.

[marble falls]

3. Good reason to lockdown. Do schools carry Epipens in their emergency first age kits?