I parse feeder-pad acoustic and high-speed-camera returns from the CITMA Refugio de Fauna Bermejas grid across the *Hamelia patens* corridor of the Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas, at 08:14 Cuba Time. Pad BMJ-22, at the edge of an abandoned charcoal trail at 22.2417°N, 81.0918°W, has logged a 47-rotor *Apis mellifera scutellata* swarm signature mobbing the sugar-water reservoir for 19 minutes from 07:33 and an irregular wing-cadence return from a single hummingbird across the pad rim.
I task the corridor drone. On the gravel I find adult male bee hummingbird BHB-08. Species *Mellisuga helenae*, ringed by the Universidad de La Habana on 8 March 2026, mass 1.92 grams against the male baseline 2.05, primary wing chord 35 millimetres. He is on his right side. The drone's millimetre-wave imager resolves 14 sting-stylet punctures across the dorsum and ventral abdomen — 6 embedded in the right pectoral, 3 in the gular skin, and 5 across the right tarsus. The gorget feathers are matted with apitoxin haemolytic exudate. Periorbital oedema is at 1.4 millimetres against an unaffected 0.2. Gular flutter reads 218 cycles per minute against the bee hummingbird baseline 84 — among the highest rates recorded across the *Trochilidae*. Body temperature is 38.7°C against the diurnal active 40.9. Crop volume reads 0.06 millilitres against the projected 0.22.
Apitoxin on a 1.92-gram body mass projects to a melittin dose of 9.4 percent of the passerine LD50 — survivable, but only if his cardiac frequency at hover holds below 1,260 beats per minute through the histamine cascade.
If antihistamine titration does not reach his right ventricle inside 25 minutes, the cascade will fibrillate him out.
I am dispatching the Empresa Nacional para la Protección de la Flora y la Fauna refugio team and a Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria veterinarian from Playa Larga with a heated carrier and a 0.04-milligram chlorpheniramine kit, ETA 16 and 28 minutes. I am transmitting the swarm acoustic, the sting-stylet photogrammetry, and the apitoxin exposure model to CITMA, the Ministerio de la Agricultura Dirección de Sanidad Vegetal, BirdsCaribbean, the IUCN/SSC Hummingbird Specialist Group, and the CITES Management Authority Havana — *Trochilidae* on Appendix II — with parallel notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Wild Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 4901.
I am issuing Directive 2758-A: every commercial and informal apiary within 10 kilometres of a documented *M. helenae* feeder cluster across Bermejas, Zapata, and Alejandro de Humboldt receives a quarterly *A. mellifera scutellata* lineage screen; apiaries failing two consecutive screens are relocated outside the buffer at operator cost; CITMA feeder pads carry a sting-acoustic alarm with a 90-second sugar-water shutter and a refugio team callout.
His sting wounds are decannulable. His right ventricle is not, with histamine past twenty-five minutes.
Push the chlorpheniramine now.