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Killer bees attack couple in Indio
Posted: Jul 25, 2012 7:48 AM by Associated Press
INDIO, Calif. (AP) - Killer bees have swarmed a gardener and homeowner in the Southern California desert.
The man and woman are hospitalized.
The gardener was stung 80 times and the woman has more than 100 bee stings.
The Desert Sun of Palm Springs says the gardener was trimming a palm tree outside an Indio home on Tuesday when he disturbed a hive of Africanized honey bees in the trunk.
Firefighters called to the home found the pair on the ground covered with bees.
Bee populations peak in July, with colonies going from about 10,000 bees in the winter to as many as 45,000 bees.
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