Ned, I agree with B. Not only are people killed or nearly killed far more often by bees than by feral cats, but I don't really think it's a fair comparison of magnitude.
I will always hold mammals in higher regard than insects, personally. Call me a phylum bigot, I don't really care.
On another note, I don't get what the big deal about the bees is. They were in his grill- what was he supposed to do? He never signed on to become a bee refuge. Also, he obviously didn't know beforehand how many bees there were; if he had lifted the cover on the grill to look he likely would have been stung to death.
The theory is that this was a rogue colony started by some European honeybees that escaped from an Australian beekeeper, so it's not even like he was harming the local wildlife.
I will always hold mammals in higher regard than insects, personally. Call me a phylum bigot, I don't really care.
On another note, I don't get what the big deal about the bees is. They were in his grill- what was he supposed to do? He never signed on to become a bee refuge. Also, he obviously didn't know beforehand how many bees there were; if he had lifted the cover on the grill to look he likely would have been stung to death.
The theory is that this was a rogue colony started by some European honeybees that escaped from an Australian beekeeper, so it's not even like he was harming the local wildlife.
As as for Colony Collapse Disorder (the dying off of the bees mentioned by Scottlass above), I read on the Straight Dope the other day that it was mostly exaggerated: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2823/why-are-the-bees-disappearing