The Savage Bees

Sheriff Donald McKew

Dr. Rufus Carter

Dr. Jorge Meuller

Police Lieutenant

Pelligrino

Coast Guard Lieutenant

Coast Guard Chief

Freighter Boatswain

Freighter Captain

Taxicab Driver

Deputy Churn

Deputy Stilt

Mrs. Compher

Julie Compher

Mrs. Bryant

TV Interviewer

Mrs. McKew

Morgue Technician

Morgue Receptionist (as Sylvia 'Kuumba' Williams)

Young Priest (as Tom Smith Alden)

Pirate Girl

Pirate

Councilman Ralston (as Wayne 'V' Mack)

Councilman Tyne

Caziot (as Dr. Norman Gary)

Mrs. Caziot

(uncredited)

'Norman E. Gary, an entomologist and production consultant, was the "bee wrangler" for the movie. All of the "Oh my God, the bees are killing him (or her)!" shots, where the bees swarm over the victim, are done by him. He also acted as one of the victims.

Yes, they were real bees, with real stingers. He kept the bees under control with highly attractive synthetic bee pheromones and smoke.

Literally hundreds of thousands of bees were used.

Jeannie knows that the killer bees are attracted by red objects, but she keeps using her red car, even when she starts to search for the swarm with Dr. Mueller. Dr. Mueller's plan to fight the bees fails, and they attack the car. The filmmakers probably introduced this character error because the color of the car comes in handy for plan B, which involves taking the bees to the Superdome. Since they cling to her car, Jeannie can take them there by simply driving (slowly) to the Superdome.

When the killer bees cling to Jeannie's Volkswagen Beetle, they leave a hole for her to peek through when she drives to the Superdome. Very convenient! They used pheromones to attract the bees to the car (see the trivia section), so it's clear that they left a spot on the windshield free of pheromones (or applied another substance there that repels bees) so that the bees would not settle in that spot.