Killer Bees Attack Couple, Kill Horses When 30,000 Swarm Texas Home Stinging Woman And Man 250 Times

Killer bees attack couple, kill horses at a North Texas home while the said couple was taken the horses for a ride to exercise them when approximately 30,000 killer bees swarmed the scene, attacking anything in site.

Kristen Beauregard, 44, was stung about 200 times, and her boyfriend about 50 times, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Saturday. The horses were killed by the killer bees when the stings and amount of bees wouldn't allow them to be saved at Beauregard's home in Pantego.

"They were chasing us down, they were following us," Beauregard said of the killer bees incident Wednesday evening to Fort Worth Star-Telegram that hurt her and her boyfriend and killed their horses. "We swept up piles and piles of them ... it was like a bad movie."

Beauregard was exercising Trump, a Shetland pony, when the bees made the attack. She told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that in an effort to escape from the killer bees, she jumped into the pool. The horse followed in there, but it wasn't enough to save Trump.

"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."

Beauregard noticed that bees started showing up at her home recently and it got bad when she noticed Trump started to kick and scream, and then the cloud of bees arrived. Her boyfriend called the police and luckily, both the boyfriend and Beauregard are recovering from the stings. She jumped inside the home to save herself until help came.

The bees are being tested to find out whether they are Africanized bees, also known as "killer bees" for their aggressive behavior.

Chip, the six-year-old horse died before help arrived. When helped did arrive, it was tough to keep Trump from dying.

"He had so much swelling in his face, he must have kept his face above water to breathe. That's where all the bee stings concentrated," Mansfield equine veterinarian Patricia Tersteeg said. "He was so overwhelmed by bites that his body could not handle it. That's way too much for any 250 pound mammal to survive."

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