Hi, ERATH COUNTY CEMETERY VISITORS BEWARE OF ALL BEES AND SNAKES do you have any kin in central Texas who would be interested in taking some gentle honeybees out of the walls of our farm house.? Only living bee man I know is Buck Little and he is past 90 with a tired heart At age 90 he had only been to a Doctor 3 times- once when a rattlesnake bit his hand. He wouldn't be able to mov e the bees. Remember the old Bee men who used to hold the queen in their hand and the swarm would land on their arm but not sting? . Some of them lit on us when we went to sleep Friday & we brushed them off. Old timers claim they can smell fear or adrenalin in a human and may sting one who is afraid of them. Trouble is, behind the house where the smokehouse fell there is a nest of Killer bees, I think. They hate everything but another Bee . I know Texas honey bees, Bumble bees, hornets yellow jackets , dirt daubers, and black wasps well. Used to catch Bumble bees in a crock jug half full of water and eat their honey from spoon size sacks. If you fight them out they will eat the honey before you get to it. . Used to race them from knocking a nest in a tree to the channel swimming hole in the Duffau and jump in before we got stung. Some of our dads wonderred if we were normal sometimes, I guess. Some of these new ones attacked my grandson on his riding mower. He bailed off at full speed. I stopped the mower and took him to the Stephenville Hospital. He was stung 30 times on and in the nostrils, the head, chin, and shoulders. ?Several of them left bloody spots. One stayed on him and he put it in a cup to show the Doctor. She frowned when she saw it. They gave him mixed stereoid shots to slow his heart and lower his blood pressure. nOT ONE STINGER STAYED IN HIS SKIN- iSN'T THAT A MARK OF THE aFRICANIZED kILLER bEES? Milam and a neighboring county and Navarro Counties and 60 more in Texas are in a Bee Quarantine. Commercial honey producers like Burleson in Waxahachie cannot carry a hive across the county line. CHECK YOUR INTERNET ON tEXAS BEEKEEPERS. nOW WE HAVE IMPORTED FIRE ANTS AND kILLER BEES AND ARE EXPORTING OUR SONS WITHOUT WHAT MADE THEM SICK IN dESERT sTORM. I suspect it was the Aspertame- nutrisweet in the Soda pops which sat in Desert sand for weeks as they used them as water. Above 70 degrees some claim it becomes toxic. It is not inspected as a food. Take care, Charles Wyly On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:16:37 EDT Texasdog@aol.com writes: > In the book published in 1980, "History of Erath >County,Texas" by the > Erath County Historical Commission......there is a writeup of the >the > family of Aaron Hardin "H" Allard and wife Sarah Ann >Colbert. His > parents were Aaaron Hardin Allard Sr. and Polly Weaver. "H" >and >Sarah > were both born In Missouri. The ALLARD families were in Hopkins >County, > Texas, by 1850. Most of the Erath County members are buried >in Allard > Cemetery......some went to Sterling City and are buried there. > > > >