Times;"North Texans need to take precautions against Africanized honeybees, officials said. The bees had Africanized traits, but not enough to warrant quarantine, officials said. But "killer bees""Africanized bees in Texas, they move 12 months out of the year," Paul Jackson, chief apiary inspector for the Texas Honeybee Identification Laboratory in College Station, Texas, said. Insect experts collected the Clay County bees after an elderly man was stung repeatedly Sept. 1 at his rural home. 74-year-old retired rancher, spent a night in a hospital. Workers pulled more than 200 stingers out of his head and neck. A local bee expert has warned that he's seeing more aggressive bees. "There are some very dangerous bees. Treat every swarm as if they are aggressive until you have proven them to be gentle." Watson gets 10 to 30 calls daily for swarms, and he's finding more aggressive bees than gentle ones, he wrote. He cautioned anyone who finds bees to call the police immediately and give them the location of the hive - then leave them alone. Africanized honeybees favor holes in the ground, water meters, the inside of walls, eaves and undersides of mobile homes. He advised being especially careful in these situations: Hunters should check deer blinds for bees before they enter. Homeowner sees bees flying around, he should be cautious. If he sees a nest under the home, he should call an exterminator. Even a small swarm the size of a softball - and Africanized bees split into new nests year-round- calls for action. It will grow to thousands unless it's removed. If you're attacked by bees, run away or seek shelter in a building or car, experts said. Earlier this month, Clay County Extension Agent Kyle Miller sent bees from the nest that stung Whitaker to the honeybee I.D. lab for testing. The results showed they were Level 2 European/Africanized honeybees with some Africanized traits. Here are the levels: Level 1 - European honeybees -Level 2 - European/Africanized honeybees with some Africanized traits -Level 3 - Africanized/European honeybees -Level 4 - Africanized honeybees. So far, 154 Texas counties are under quarantine, according to Texas A&M University. Bees have to be tested before bookkeeper's can move them from a county under quarantine. Africanized honeybees have been moving north from South America since the 1950s."
This is not a good thing! We all have been hearing about Killer Bee's for years and now, people a dying form them. I am sacred to death of any-kind of stinging bug, as they seem to always get me no matter what I do to give them space. What about the people that have allergies to bee-stings what would this do to them? Its like a double ammo....
