SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- Exterminators have removed a hive containing an estimated quarter-million Africanized killer bees from a home near Bisbee where a man was fatally stung on Aug. 20.
Charlie Pasley, 39, died after being stung about 300 times by a swarm of bees as he was working on the roof of his home with his father, Chuck Pasley, 62. The bees attacked minutes after the pair began work on the roof of their home in the rural community of Whetstone. Chuck Pasley was stung about 100 times but suffered no serious effects.
Michael Smith, a manager for the local extermination company which removed the bees Thursday, said the hive was likely about six months old and was 2 feet wide, a foot long and five inches tall.
"It was a well-established hive," Smith said. "There were about a quarter-million bees and the honeycomb was about 70 pounds."
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