{"id":946,"date":"2010-08-30T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:49:18","slug":"beware-of-bees-near-the-new-millennium-trails-in-calabasas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2010\/08\/30\/beware-of-bees-near-the-new-millennium-trails-in-calabasas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Bees Near the New Millennium Trails in Calabasas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_947\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bee-stinger-724392.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-947\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-947 \" title=\"bee-stinger-724392\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bee-stinger-724392-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s better to avoid bees than to try to outrun them.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are been reports of bees or yellow jackets attacking mountain bikers riding near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/TrailMaps\/Calabasas\/AreaTrails.htm#NewMillenniumLoop\" target=\"_blank\">New Millennium Loop <\/a>trails in Calabasas. This past weekend, riders on the Historic Trail (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/TrailMaps\/Calabasas\/AreaTrails.htm#Map\" target=\"_blank\">trail #8\u00a0at the top of\u00a0this map<\/a>) reported that angry bees followed them for several hundred yards. Most riders were stung multiple times. A similar incident occured a few weeks ago during a night ride in the same area. One member of that ride said the bees had a nest in the ground, on the inside corner of a switchback. All riders were stung about a dozen times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have any advice on what to do when confronted by angry insects other than &#8220;Ride away as fast as hell! Don&#8217;t stop until well beyond where the bees stop chasing you.&#8221; Instead of trying to outrun these bees, it would be smarter to avoid this trail as long as there are bees there.<\/p>\n<p>CORBA has alerted the land managers for the area about this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are been reports of bees or yellow jackets attacking mountain bikers riding near the New Millennium Loop trails in Calabasas. This past weekend, riders on the Historic Trail (trail #8\u00a0at the top of\u00a0this map) reported that angry bees followed them for several hundred yards. Most riders were stung multiple times. A similar incident occured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}