A massive swarm of over 30,000 bees attacked a couple in Pantego, a town in North Texas, along with their animals, killing two horses and five hens.
A swarm of bees turned into killers. A North Texas couple was attacked by the bees Wednesday evening. The attack turned worse when the animals including horses and hens were targeted. Two horses, named Chip and Trump, succumbed due the pain of the bee stings. In addition, five hens were also killed in the deadly attack.
Kristen Beauregard was stung nearly 200 times and her boyfriend about 50 times, according to Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The 44-year-old woman refused to identify her boyfriend, but narrated the entire incident to the newspaper. Beauregard is recovering from the stings but summarized the whole experience as "incredibly painful."
"They were chasing us down, they were following us," Beauregard told Star-Telegram. "We swept up piles and piles of them ... it was like a bad movie."
But the couple remains clueless as to what triggered the bees to leave their hive. Beauregard recalls exercising Trump, when suddenly he starting jumping and kicking. That is when a cloud of bees started stinging them all over. Beauregard and her boyfriend ran for shelter and jumped into the pool.
"It got all dark, like it was nighttime there were so many bees," she told the newspaper. "We were trying stand up in the water but every time we stuck our heads out for air, they would cover us and start stinging us. We were trying to breathe and they were stinging us in the face and in the nose."
The bees did not leave them for a second but the couple managed to sprint into the house. Beauregard's boyfriend called 911 for help.
Firefighters arrived at the scene with special gear and a foam substance was used to clear the bees. They rescued as many animals as possible while paramedics tried to treat them with "massive doses of Benadryl," an antihistamine.
Another victim of the attack was the couple's dog. It was stung several times but survived.
A sample of the bees was taken to identify if they were Africanized honey bees, otherwise known as "killer bees," said Barry Reeves, Pantego assistant police chief.
Beauregard warned people to be aware of any bee hives in residential places and to get rid of them at the earliest.
