Horse dies after bee attack

Tim McKee and his family were laughing and joking the evening of June 15 when they looked out the window of their home on Columbia Falls Stage Road and saw their horse Fury scratching his back on a tree so hard that the tree was shaking all over the place.
“This horse loved to have his back scratched,” McKee said.
But then Fury took off running and bucking through a field.
“My wife [Kathy] decided to go put him in for the night,” McKee said. “She went out there and saw what looked like mud all over his butt.”
But it wasn’t mud.
It was a mass of small black bees or hornets, the likes of which McKee said he has never seen. Read More…