The Dangerous Bees That Have Killed Over 1000 People | Real Wild

[Music] these aggressive killer bees have attacked and killed over a thousand people in Latin America since their arrival in the United States they have already killed two dozen people these bees will live in anything I mean literally Reed Booth works as a professional killer bee removal expert in Arizona it takes only a few seconds for thousands of angry ferocious bees to launch an offensive attack this many bees and how insane they are would have killed us I'm gonna adrenaline junkie he's always taking risks you just can't change someone's personality Reed's bee suit can't always protect him from getting stung all right you little bastard you're done for it let's get him Reid often Works under dangerous conditions he risks his life on every job to keep us safe [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] as the sun rises in Arizona it's the start of another busy day for Reed booth with his assistant Jim aboard he heads off to go remove killer bees that are disrupting people's lives Reed lives on the outskirts of Bisbee a town nestled within the Arizona mule mountains a mere 15 miles from the Mexican border this town used to be a busy copper mining town but when the facilities closed down their operations 30 years ago Bisbee became a Haven for artists and retirees [Music] today the entire State of Arizona is saturated with killer bees in the state of Arizona alone they estimate there are between four and five million wild Africanized Hive with each Hive containing an average of 40 to 60 thousand bees so we can do the math Reed's first job today is in the neighboring town of Sierra Vista you can tell us is a big one Reed and his assistant Jim put on their protective bee suits to avoid being stung my husband works around out in the barn and out there and he's noticed a bunch of bees flying around yeah and then when he showed me the other day where they were you can hear him underneath really yeah Lord here so all right we'll just meet you over there okay all right great can't hear him right now hear him but I'll tell you what day before yesterday oh yeah you could really hear him buzzing well I can see a couple of them buzzing around so they've got to be under here somewhere oh whoa there they are I'm not getting any closer about my bee suit on you can uh if you want to watch pull a car up and sit in the car don't worry you're smarter than way over there smarter than I am my dear yeah uh so I'll go ahead and tie into it and we'll take care of it and then I'll come and knock on the door when we get it wrapped okay Reed never knows how aggressive a hive is going to be until he actually starts to remove it the crazy bunch of bees okay Billy these well let's be sure to keep an eye out for snakes and centipedes and black widows and all the other friendlies as opposed to the bees first they have to remove these construction supplies to find the beehive oh they're getting off the chain a little bit here if you see any bees over there if you see any bees over there they're getting mean oh Lord here they are they're attacking oh man I can smell that Venom the strong smell of Venom reminds Jim to make sure his suit is well zipped up oh she's standing over there don't think she should while lifting these sharp objects they have to be extra careful not to rip their suits or the Killer Bees could get in wow they are off the chain they're really unhappy with us at this point and of course I can't scratch my nose God dang it all oh they're nuclear dude they're not coming in so no no you're good can you see I I mean I can see on your mask how they're like I know like trying to sting I just call that Venom yeah I can smell the Venom big time I mean actually do this Jim is new on the job Reed explains to him how your breath attracts the bees to your face oh these guys are off the chance yeah look at that help me what they do is they go for the CO2 coming out of your nose and mouth Jim the whole um thing about that is it's combined with why they go for dark colors is because their natural enemies are bears right and and bears are dark okay and then over the eons they've learned that the most sensitive part on a bear nose and mouth CO2 comes out of the nose and mouth on an old mammal in fact I've done an experiment where I'll have a tube going down my suit to my boot from my mouth with a screen on the enemy attack my boot because of the CO2 and I keep kind of keeps them off the face but it's also cumbersome sort of heck with it but uh wow amazingly enough they're still looking for the hive maybe they're in one of these I don't know where the heck they are oh boy wow they are crazy oh I think they're in here oh you could be right that's why this was so heavy yeah oh there they think they've located The Hive yeah there it is look at them come look at this is off wow look at this they're off this is completely cuckoo this is one of the worst I've seen yeah this is pretty bad it's one of the worst I've seen this is unbelievable all right let me get a Bucket Boss yeah let's get a bucket and a uh main thing I'll call him I can remain let's get a bucket and a uh putty knife okay and bring the smoker over too so I can kind of call him these little thumbs or guns down a little bit beehive Reed normally tries to save the honey but these need to be calmed down first wow let's party for a brief moment his nose touches his screen oh damn it right on the nose stay on what you did period they do not stop once they've driven you away that's not enough they want blood I didn't want blood and I get it damn it that first right on the end of the nose is one of the worst spots you can get it and I got it good there's a little monsters oh god making my eyes water that's one of the worst spots you and now of course they're attacking that spot because of the Venom ah bless it oh it hurts right on the end of the damn nose you little bastards now I'm gonna take care of you I'm done with you guys all right boss have I still got a stinger in my nose right in the end no sir thank you all right you little bastards you're done for that's it it's over history uh heading off let's get him boy that's a way to pick me up look I smoked the hell out of them using smoke Jim convinces the bees that their hive is on fire instinctively they go back inside to salvage their food as they gorge on the honey the bees become lethargic and less aggressive I think they're too far off the chain to be honest with you yeah they are after a few minutes the throbbing pain of a sting gets worse and it's bleeding yeah bastards I mean I'm gonna look like both of the clown probably by the end of the day here um it really is amazing how much it hurts the Venom is very similar to rattlesnake venom and if I get stung right between the eyes and the forehead both my eyes swell shut and it feels literally like a cigarette burn like a burn like you're having a a burn on your wherever they sting you it takes you all your attention all your attention you can't even think this many bees and how insane they are would have killed us we would have all been dead by now and so uh thank God for the bee suits in my bee suit I'm Superman but without it I'm running right next to you but the bees aren't the only Killers Reed and Jim have to deal with they find a venomous centipede look at how big he is thank God these things are horrible you know if you get stung in the abdomen or the head they'll kill you they'll bite you you know their venom is really horrible their bite is like 100 times worse than a than a bee sting say an Africanized bee sting and it's really horrible they also find a deadly black widow spider it looks like she has three egg sacks they are just deadly Reed won't be able to save the honey the bees are too wild because he doesn't like to use poison Reed uses soapy water to drown the bees which kills them instantly all right you nasty bees Black Widow everybody's going down we don't know how many stings it takes to kill a person there are people one sting kills them some people tend some people uh 40. uh then there's the guy who took 3 700 stings and lived oh dear so really bad huh oh my god really I wouldn't go back there for about a week oh really yeah I mean we killed almost all of them there's still a few flying around here yeah there's one right there God don't let him in I know during them they're just something else I'll tell you right now they were meaner the last time I went out and I'm staying there and I heard one buzzing and I got in my hair and I'm going like this and I ran in the house and I was sitting there and I'm going to my hair if only went and got a comb and I had one yeah it was dead but oh really oh I whacked it I didn't get stung for that ouch you're seeing the tip of the iceberg all right do not go near him because an average Hive has 40 to 60 000 bees in it the next job is in the middle of a residential area where the bees are frightening people in neighboring homes let's go take a peek at it and see how bad what the situation is killer bees have a large attack range of several hundred yards the owners of the house Reed has been called to are away so it's up to him to investigate the problem on his own you know we're gonna have to do uh smoke them oh they're mean already let's go get the smoker the problem is obvious Reed notices the gap between the brick wall and the roof Eaves this is the door to The Beehive so he needs to seal the bees entrance that neighbor is way too close again Reed gets stung again through his net I hate these little bastards scrape it out he pulls the bee stinger out the Africanized bee was nicknamed a killer bee because of their tendency to defend the hive to the nth degree they will attack with such ferocity and not just wound or drive away Intruders they will kill them and then keep stinging the corpse whether it's a dog a horse or a person well what we've done is entombed bees inside of the wall because this is a brick wall they're living in the bricks and there's no way to remove them without turning the house down of course people don't want to do that so we seal them in and they die in the wall honey lasts forever they found honey in the tombs of Tutankhamun in Egypt and so it lasts forever it's not going to go bad it's not going to smell the bees will die they're just little insects they'll dry out no biggie thinking their job is almost over Jim sets up a b trap using a pheromone to attract and capture the remaining bees but the bees coming back from the field keep accumulating oh my God we're gonna have to get bigger traps about 10 times inside the Trap gym placed is already full realizing the entrance to their hive is blocked the angry bees continue to attack Reed and Jim Reed sprays liquid soap on the bees which covers their pores with a film that suffocates them immediately yeah they're insane let's kind of keep an eye out for pedestrians in a residential area like this it's really bad I mean they bomb waiting to go off it these bees could have killed somebody but the trash are working well look at them attack oh look at that I got one bee this stung my glove her Stinger is out and she is literally disemboweling herself as she's trying to There She Goes she'll go die the worker bee stings his victim with his behind the Stinger has Barb hooks that allow it to Anchor inside the victim's flesh the bee then pumps the Venom from its poison gland after stinging the bee is held back by its Barb hooks struggling to release itself part of the bee's abdomen gets pulled out when a bee stings you it's a Kamikaze Mission she loses her life Left Behind are the stinger and the muscles controlling the Venom gland these muscles continue to work autonomously to pump Venom into the skin an alarm pheromone is also released to Mark the victim so that more bees can come and attack that pheromone travels very quickly through the air and so all of the attack bees then have a Target it's literally the target Zone because somebody's planted a stinger and boy let's drive this guy off or kill him these bees are really insane all the bees this year have been completely insane and they are wanting to kill me right now even though we've trapped them and soaked them and they're not getting out so I don't know so we're gonna get out Mr Sophie the compressor and just soak these guys down completely this is horrible [Music] I have had instances where when the bees are this insane that we've had to get the fire department out and police department and cordon off of a four to six block radius uh go door to door and tell people to stay in their homes until we get this under control these bees are still attacking even after being what would normally be defeated but I can see them they're all over the neighbor's houses and just flying all over the place it's not good but of course we've knocked their numbers down dramatically from what they were initially While most jobs only take about 30 minutes Reed and Jim have been on this job for over three hours they have to make sure the area is safe before they leave we will take care of it we will defeat them it just is uh being a little bit of a trial here God we filled up two traps of bees so far and that's just uh ridiculous in the end it takes three B traps to complete the job well finally we defeated them there comes a point where they're actually defeated they know that they have lost and the remaining bees will not attack they will Bunch up together usually in a corner or something and just talk about you know that was the worst day we ever had well I'm very relieved right now that we have a fellow named Jim that is uh Reed's assistant and we've been training him for about three weeks and he's working out really wonderfully so far it's hard to find someone because you have to be a little bit crazy you have to be Fearless the first job it was it was incredible they were attacking me like I mean like it was hail and and I and I looked at it read and I said I think I'm going to run and he said just calm down keep your heart rate down the bees apparently Feel the fear in a person and there was like the Venom was just it was off the chain and I was very scared and I looked over at him and he was standing in his bee suit like this with these tens of thousands of bees bouncing off him and he just said boss is this how it's supposed to be and I can attack yep that's it so we went back to work and I got stung about 20 times 18 times because um the suit was um sticking to my skin he didn't freak out he felt like it but he didn't those people who tell you not to take chances are missing out on what life is all about and that is risk and that is going out there and experiencing different things and I love adventure and I love I love danger and this job is perfect for me Reid's next job is at a tall Patrol tower on the Arizona Mexico border we're only six miles from the border here so get a lot of traffic Reed will be escorted to the site by the border patrol agents hi I'm Reed hi Danny Roberts good to meet you Danny good to meet you we'll go down and take care of them bees okay okay he meets Chewie the crane operator very good let's head on down and get her doing okay there are often dangerous drug smugglers or illegal aliens trying to cross the border this is an 80-footer right my partner decided to climb that day and he got up there James yeah he's been stung a few times he uh he got nervous he come down pretty quick uh yeah I bet you he did it's a bee hive waiting to happen Phil I mean you know what I've done like 10 minutes nobody does okay I think we're ready to go up working 80 feet above the ground they'll have little room to maneuver if one of their protective suits is compromised they'll have nowhere to run and hide okay you're all zippered in good yes sir the bees are starting to attack and these bees are bad he got stung even Chewie the crane operator has already been stunned we had a drill and an epinephrine pin so if you start feeling weird just let us know oh look at the views there's Old Mexico right there wow these are ridiculous my Lord I cannot believe how many stingers I have in my hand it's starting to rain this Tower could be a lightning rod I just hope we don't get soaked because our suits will stick to our uh oh and then we'll get what stung gee can you imagine climbing up that lighter gym and being stuck up there with them damn things Reed is unable to use smoke up here to calm the bees because it's too windy [Music] it's got to be a big hive just from the amount of protection that they're putting out you know we got about another 15 feet to go Chewie [Applause] because they're saying amazing I got stung here a couple of times already Roger that if Chewie reacts badly to his stings the guys could get stuck up there these are insane yeah how much more do I need to go about another five feet straight up and then we'll get a little closer to the pole Chewie in there look at these guys oh they're just all completely cooked now oh this is insane oh my Lord could you give me ouch damn it I got stung in the shoulder bastard enough to piss me off uh could you give me an expanding foam yes sir [Music] these guys are just insane I probably have the whole damn Hive out already this B entrance is too large to fill with his expanding foam so repacks the hole with the screen this also keeps the birds from poking holes in it I'll make a little screen sandwich here or should I call it a scream with the bees now sealed inside the tower pole Chewie brings them back to the ground well they're still attacking Chewie pretty good I cannot believe all these Stingers in my hand look at that there's just hundreds and hundreds of them hey sorry aha nothing but fun huh lots of fun yes sir lots of fun how many times you get stung three times three times in the face yeah the face and also in my ear here yeah we have some Sting stuff that we'll put on it okay it'll help it will help that yeah I need it because these things could kill you again oh yeah they're a killer back but Killer Bees don't respect borders it all started in Far Away Brazil Africanized bees were actually created there was an experiment that went wrong in 1956 at the request of the Brazilian government a Dr Warwick Kerr went to Africa to bring back 36 pure African queen bees because European bees were not good producers in Jungle conditions and very sickly so we cross bred these two types of bees the result was a more productive but more aggressive bee Unfortunately they escaped Into the Wild these Killer Bees soon colonized Brazil and the other surrounding countries by 1980 the entire South American continent was saturated with killer bees five years later the bees moved into Mexico and by 1990 they had arrived in the U.S today killer bees are prominent in 10 states in the southern U.S and are moving northward they have been found in Wisconsin they've been killed a beekeeper in Connecticut they've been found up in Seattle so they've gone up the coast because it's more tempered but I I believe probably about half the states do have some africanization at this point Reed has received an emergency call he needs to go to an abandoned house full of bees which are creating Havoc with the neighbors Ephraim I'm Reed hi Reed nice to meet you uh I guess that they're in that house since it's an abandoned house yes sir where are they located they're on the Southwest window of the farthest to the back oh so they're right by your backyard oh good lord uh your pets you got I got my dog over here tied up so she should be okay I hope you're okay if need be can you pick her in yes sir have you been stung at all yes sir I have me and my brother and my uh brother-in-law we're in the backyard and just they went cuckoo on you so we had to go in the house oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh boy I'm not getting any closer without machine gun I'll bet you some rattlesnakes in there too huh yeah I would recommend you watch out through your window yeah I'll be inside watch okay buddy these kids getting home from school are at risk they don't realize that killer bees are about to be Unleashed of course Reed won't start till we make sure they're gone boy look at this jungle this is ridiculous one major thing I'm looking for of course is snakes it's like snakeville but we'll hear them rattle unless they're a Mojave then they'll just probably strike watch these electrical wires I don't know if they're hot or not so stay away from them all right no snakes we're good to go oh my Lord all right there they are all right we're gonna need smoke because of the proximity to neighbors and how many people live in this neighborhood we're gonna smoke them and really try to keep them from going completely insane on us that's right it's a big old emergency guys and they're mean anyway during them I was afraid of that ironically though these bees can kill him Reed still loves them Reed gets stung again that's right guys we're about to smoke not me it's working look at the whole fam family here and that's just spectacular that's right guys your time has come this beehive has between 40 and 60 000 bees this is a worker bee being born there's one there there's another one there and they were she'll be popping out here in a little bit that is a bee being born right there she's chewing away the wax covering on her cell there's a bee that was just born yeah now they're talking she's just fresh out and she's talking with the neighbors with the other Beach yeah you're part of this Hive yeah let me help clean your wings yeah see you there welcome to the world little girl they're born fully developed they're born adults come here and look at this Jim oh her head's almost out look at that oh boy there's our eyes oh my gosh she comes to save the day bees are very neat creatures they're clean clean they're all Virgos hey girls what's up what's up the party not exactly huh beautiful comb honeycomb what you mean all right there we go got it oh that's a beauty right this is the rarest honey in the world wild Africanized honeycomb honey is a fascinating stuff it's a magical substance it has all the nutritional things that are lacking in vitamin pills sometimes with the honey Reed collects he creates award-winning honey Butters and honey mustards the wild Africanized honey around here is absolutely delicious Reed and his wife fabrion have even opened up their own honey store in Bisbee honeybees are very important to our not only our economy but our actual food source about 40 percent of what we eat is because bees have pollinated something they're off the chain now yeah Reed and Jim have to work fast the neighbor's dog is tied up on the other side of the house and could get stung all right we're just today we're getting hundreds of pounds of honey brush a few bees up if you can oh yeah oh for chain you guys Jim gets stung they're pissed now oh I can smell the Venom yeah oh yeah they're felt me like kale yep hail yes I got it right through the dang club though he loves his bees the admiration is not mutual these mean hives like this are just kind of a pain he's already been stung eight times on this job alone you know his beans are so mean I think we're just gonna hose him down ridiculous when I do a killer bee removal a big difference between myself and Exterminators is I do not use any poison soapy water kills bees and does it very rapidly but the honey then is fine we do our best to save the honey successful once again that's the thing about doing this work you can't not be successful you have to be successful every time it's got to be 100 or or you failed and someone will die okay everyone do not open the door obviously they're still bouncing off of me um you saw that I mean that was just off the chain dude I appreciate your help very much all right yeah no problem you made this uh this little place here a little bit safer driving with a bee suit on is dangerous but necessary when killer bees get into the truck we may as well roll down the windows and get rid of these little or something there they go come on girls get out of here so we can take our Nets off anyway these guys were impressive get shoot so after a busy day with killer bees the boys want to seek out more Thrills and head off to the local fair I can smell them farm animals already Reid's the coolest boss I've ever had we'll go out and we'll work really hard we'll do three or four or five jobs a day but every day after work we relax and enjoy life and that's what it's all about I gotta get me one of them [Music] sit around down oh I forgot my bee suit [Music] s [Music] this morning Reed has an urgent job in the busy town of Tombstone where I really wish you'd come because um it's right at this at the Chamber of Commerce yeah in the old Bank building and and I mean I'm sure we're gonna have to block off the street or have the martial out because it's a tourist town there'll be a lot of people around so can you come on that one okay great I did request that they uh uh the Marshall go over and put more tape up yeah just just to make sure that no look you lose nobody gets stung people getting the flight path whatever okay buddy and I'll uh I'll be up there ASAP uh we'll see you soon okay babe okay later all right guys let's go we got uh killer bees and tombstone and we gotta go up and take care of this right now [Applause] the tombstone Chamber of Commerce is downtown there are people everywhere who could be attacked if the killer bees get out of control now if we get too many lookalus I'm going to want to have a marshall down here to keep them away I just I just don't want these bees to go cuckoo and sting somebody okay thanks uh what we'll do remember the attack radius of killer bees is several hundred yards but they can spread even further away okay cool okay I appreciate it like that I want a lot of smoke with this because we're in a residential area and it could be you never know when a 400 turfs are gonna come by hey smokey yeah we'll let her let her burn that's hot huh yeah there goes the hair I think we're gonna have to seal up you know a lot bees are very um Landmark oriented and so when they first move into a place you can see them all along the link looking around because it all looks the same to them you can see them looking all over it's like where's where's home the only reason I still go on bee removal jobs is I've been blessed by not being stung yet and I can't say that I think it's a miracle hopefully we can prevent a disaster we use steel wool and fill them with with the expanding foam and then use that to seal up the infants because nothing can poke through it Birds nothing oh boy there are holes everywhere here a lot of holes up here of course I got nice bare wires here hope that's not hot okay still will get be careful you guys I think we have more than one Hive here in fact I'm sure of it really don't want to be aggressive here in Tombstone this is not good I got into a hive about a year ago out here and uh they ate the heck out of me I walk out of them and uh don't take a save me with all his hair their job is done and the town is safe again we're just doing the final touches on it now there were two hives up there and for now we're gonna wrap up the ceiling and put up the B trap and at this point they're not they're not going to be aggressive [Music] Reed first became interested in bees in the late 80s when a friend who was working as a Bee inspector at the Arizona Department of Agriculture supplied him with some European bees to start beekeeping mustard Deluxe yeah well it wasn't for you I wouldn't even be into bees don't blame me you're the one that called me I'm blaming you you're the one who called me up said I got a bag of bees for you when the Killer Bees showed up in Arizona three years later Catherine had a bad experience yeah we opened this uh wild Hive that was in a stack of tires or something out there by somebody's house yeah and I didn't zip my zipper and about 30 bees went up really aggressively inside my um net and I didn't know whether to take it off I know what do you do it's so confusing so I leaped in the back the bad fly off me and then they followed us so you got 30 stings just in the head I did I had a pumpkin head oh [Music] in 1998 Bisbee was the scene of the largest killer bee attack in the world he's attacked and stung 17 people sending eight to the hospital it all started at this downtown building on Brewery Gulch Street when its owner inexperienced with killer bees sprayed raid in the walls [Music] I started coming out and so he just went back home he didn't even get stung but then he started hearing the screams because of course the bees when they perceive a threat will come off their front door the bees immediately left the building and started attacking civilians the bee's first victim was Deborah Strait who was driving her car with the window slightly open when a few bees entered her vehicle so I opened the door so they could find their way out and a whole lot of them came in and I decided you want the car take the car so I got out of the car and then hundreds descended on me I was batting them away from my head and off my face and then I realized that they were concentrating on my head so I took my shirt off to cover my head and then I realized what was happening this was a killer bee attack and if I got enough of these I would die the first to respond to the scene was police officer David Gonzalez right to this point where I'm standing now and I saw this lady screaming running down screaming I was screaming not out of fear so much but I wanted some help and I wanted it right now and as soon as I opened my my car door I got totally covered in bees he immediately ran up the hill to safety to his father's house he pretty much started swatting me with his slice water with over a hundred stings on his head and down his throat he was rushed to the hospital so I quit calling for help [Music] and used her garden hose to keep them off of my face while she called the police Josie mincher was the nurse treating the victims when I saw Debbie it's like nothing I've ever seen before she had by its hundreds thousands of them all over her face her body everywhere and that's just what I could see it looked like a cheap horror movie with little wax balls all over her face I spent a half an hour just throwing up and throwing up throwing up and even before the pain set in my legs would do this we go into spasms so I had a lot of venom there were Stingers everywhere in her ears her nose her mouth the Killer Bees soon spread from Brewery Gulch Street to the neighboring streets attacking anyone in sight [Music] the first medic from the fire department to arrive was Mel Ray as soon as I got out of my rig to go around to get my gear on I just got swarmed I had about 200 bees land on my head and my neck and I ended up getting stung almost 200 times when I walked up there was only one fireman standing here hosing down the bees and these bees were stinging birds flying overhead they were stinging telephone poles tires it was complete Mayhem and it looked like a war scene actually with what I'd imagine a war scene to be with cars parked with doors open running lights on police lights on there were people running around naked up the street taking their clothes off just throwing them off every direction for three hours the frightened firefighters sprayed the bees the building and Reed as he worked Under Pressure to seal off the bees Deborah survived over 500 stings thanks to immediate Medical Care well I'm glad you're all right do you have any scars that's all nothing you know nothing I mean it didn't affect me I just it's something that you just something you'll never forget it's something you'll never forget I've never seen anything like it again it's probably once in a lifetime thing and I hope it never happens again Reed is off to a horse ranch that has 37 horses because there are numerous hives on the site he brings his wife fabrion along to help you address that today for you yeah I'll get rid of them once and crawl yeah he lived out here long uh 18 years yeah I've been down in Bisbee about 21. wow yeah the horses are uneasy horses got stung down there yeah down there they did yeah yeah boy oh boy oh boy and the first flight I sprayed that's what attracts them you know that's happened before that's happened before in fact you know the first lease down there yeah uh Jimmy and Norma they are they lost a horse you know a few years ago because they sprayed that fly stuff on them and then put them out in the lawn to mow the law on two horses and these bees came out of something like this and just she Norma said you couldn't even see the horses it was like clouds oh yeah not good killed one on the spot should have killed the other one yeah chase the dog I've sent Jimmy to the hospital stung up normal oh decent well you know these things are really something else the horse Rancher brings his dog to safety in the last few months Chad's been stung about 20 times in the head they've got a lot of hives on this Ranch let's get rid of these bees all right I mean we got 37 horses around here plus dogs and you know luckily the first Hive turns out to be a small one under this tire Reed makes a fantastic discovery check this out there's a skull looks like there's another one these creatures tried to get into steal honey the bees killed them and so if they can't move something out of the hive they mummify it literally another little skull totally mummified oh that is so cool probably rats that's what they are trying to get honey of course I don't know looks like it killed a bowl too didn't mummified very well the horses aren't safe yet they can smell the danger in the air now it's time for the big Hive in the shop at night when you go in there the whole building just roars you know I mean they're very busy this sounds like they've been there a while also well we've been there about a year uh-huh oh come on guys come here guys everybody this time the dogs are kept in the house thank you fabrian's primary role on these jobs is to keep the bees calm by smoking them oh beautiful wow all right um all right excuse me honey we're gonna move this this way we're gonna try it screw it down screw down down below all right let's break it bring her down should break pretty clean right there oh my word no I'm starting to attack oh hurry on into the house hurry on into the house look at all that beautiful comb I am impressed my god there must be hundreds pounds of calm here on this job Reed is able to save a lot of honey these are all empty because they were ready for use for storage it's kind of like they build all their cans and then when they need to they can actually fill them up with honey or babies or whatever and then slap the lids on this turns into work man I don't need to go to the gym you know that is a heavy one this is a big old Hive I mean there's like 150 000 bees in here look at that beautiful Reed is Happy the bees were calm enough for him to collect a massive amount of honeycomb I would say don't be doing anything until sunset today oh okay a successful job the ranchers and the horses are safe [Music] foreign [Music] I personally have had thousands of stings over the 20 years I've been doing this apparently as the more you get stung the Lesser therefore it can come a day when one sting and you could die you see it coming and you see it go when time is up then will know that black is white my wife my friends they definitely worry about me they'll call me and say are you okay what'd you do today I think the overheating is our primary concern [Music] I suffered what a heart attack and it had been a very very busy bee season I had been in the suit every day I mean you're just a very passionate person and I believe he's always taken risks you just can't change someone's personality [Music] the water Reed gets a call to get rid of a swarm of bees in a backyard one of your dogs got stung is that correct but this is all right yep okay if it gets stung too much uh you can give them Benadryl same thing that we would take okay as humans yeah look at those things right over here swimming bees we're gonna need a ladder okay and a bucket we don't need to smoke them because they're not in that mode there's only about two or three in the house total okay and they'll go to the windows so yeah yeah all right you go ahead and get your puppy around front Okay and then we'll uh we'll attack these guys okay okay here we have um a swarm of bees which is Nature's Way of propagating the area with bees you have a hive an established Hive and uh certain times of the year 10 20 30 of the bees will take off with the old Queen that's already mated and go form a ball of bees in a tree to rest and and shop for a new home they're actually looking for a new place to live you know something that size will have seven to ten thousand bees in it amazing in it we don't need the smoker for this come to Daddy here we go good girls Reed drops the whole swarm into a bucket and this is the most docile state for bees although I still wear a suit I used to be able to do this without a suit on with the African eyes but not anymore these bees were going to release into the wild they're beneficial of course to Nature and we don't want to hurt them and it's okay if they live out in the wild they're just you don't want them under your house [Music] golfers on this course have been attacked by killer bees there's a hive here in a dead oak tree [Music] it's lying in tall rattlesnake infested grass we heard a rattlesnake so it you know crossing the fence you're gonna tap everything tap everything pretty good you know when it comes time to run you'll have a pretty good jump right over that right tree is too old to remove so Reed blocks off the bees entrances to their hive they're coming out right there anymore they're not a lot of people under the same amount of stress that he has on the job would completely freak out [Music] [Music] the next job is a kid's tree house that's practically falling down [Music] Priscilla in-house thank you here they come Reed finds the entrance to one of the hives the guard bees are getting ready to attack so he gets the smoker ready the cherry picker doesn't work that means these guys will have to go up there on the ladder and the tree house is very unstable climbing ladders with B suits on is a clumsy and dangerous task can't be afraid of anything doing this job that's for sure we could have three hives here now we're going to put the ladder up against the roof so that we can actually get a handle on the wood and pull the wood off and expose The Hive at the same time I'd really like to have someone in the room Jim smoking at the same time that would pull that thing off see it [Music] hold on hold on wow oh my Lord let the games begin maybe this part we can get from the inside the smoke worked well on these bees to calm them down if there was a child up here stay with her friends and they accidentally poked a hole in a wall or if they just simply bumped against the wall and the bees started coming and attacking them through the window and they would have died they would have had to crawl down the stairs somehow and it's very unnerving when you're attacked all right honey and brood and everything look at that okay The Next Step here since we removed the comb is to save as many bees as possible and hope we get to clean we're going to take handfuls of bees now all right come on girls that's right good girls because the bees are now docile he can gather handfuls and will be able to release them into the wild for fruit pollination since killer bees are the only honeybees left in Arizona they are necessary for farming now we have another Hive over here bees get this thing and we're gonna pour out of there got another bucket this one's a bad one the bees are attacking these are bad the smoker didn't work as well on this Hive stop it you guys oh my gosh it turns out this other Hive is much bigger than they expected guys have been here for years they had to be here for years I'm surprised no one died oh damn it is I total eight feet of Chrome I cannot believe this I haven't seen this kind of comb for a long time wow this is a huge High there's got to be a hundred thousand or more these in here damn it I got stung on the little finger right through the blower these people are good to go they can tear that thing down and be safe see their dad already very humane way to do it because they die immediately that's a wrap we did it big one to the man [Music] as the bees move north and into the more populated areas of the United States people are going to need to be educated about what not to do and what to do with these bees if you get attacked immediately cover your head and head for cover that's the only advice I can really give about it run as fast as you can straight line none of the zigzag stuff after 20 years of dangerous work Reed still loves him I think I like taking risks because uh life is short and that's where the flavor comes from you know [Music] [Music]

Channel: Real Wild

Views: 131,661

Keywords: full documentary, wildlife documentary, wild animal, real wild, animal documentary, animals

Id: 3T32bMV--e4

Length: 49min 54sec (2994 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 15 2023