Posted on 01/09/2007 6:17:13 PM PST by LdSentinal
ARABI, La. - The residents of flood-damaged St. Bernard Parish, still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, have a new concern: killer bees.
Agriculturalists began setting traps around a half-mile radius of a storm-wrecked home Monday that authorities have confirmed was infested with aggressive Africanized honey bees.
The hybrids first drove away contractors hired to tear the house down. Then they drove off beekeepers called in to catch them.
Finally mosquito workers killed the bees. The state agriculture department confirmed in late December that they were hybrids with the aggressive African strain, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Bob Odom said.
The traps are to determine if more Africanized bees are lurking in the area. "So far, this is an isolated find in the New Orleans area," Odom said.
The bees probably were descendants of stowaways who arrived in New Orleans on a ship, said Jimmy Dunkley, the department's coordinator of nursery and apiary programs.
Nine swarms have been intercepted at state ports since 1988, some in shipping containers, some in barges, and some in the ships themselves, Dunkley said.
Africanized bees are the result of an experiment to increase honey production in Brazil. A swarm of the small, aggressive bees escaped the lab in 1957 and headed north. When they mated with native strains, the offspring turned out to be as aggressive as the African parents. They are sometimes called "killer bees" because their intense attacks can be fatal.
been through here in Los Angeles, still here, now it is their turn.
and yes, might curtail crime just a wee bit, maybe.
It could be worse. They could be under attack by the violent Africanized Guinea Pigs. Those things are deadly, they'll chew your legs off while your sitting at the bus stop and things of that nature.
Sounds like NO is pretty close to Hell on Earth.
I think it was about 1980 when the news reports told me that my children would have to live in a world full of Africanized "killer bees" and that in the near future one wouldn't be able to go out of the house with any degree of safety. I shoulda listnened. I could have spent the last 26 years under my bed and avoided having children. That way the idiotic liberal/media whining pissants would have been happy.
I am asking Senator Kennedy to sponsor legislation to de-fund New Orleans.
Ask for a refund of $15 billion in federal taxpayer money wasted on the Big Dig while you're at it.
Yeah, I remember that. Blame Grizzly Adams.
10 Posts and no "Bush's Fault".
Your point is...
It's Bush's fault.
in the real Killer Diller!
Hey Nagan...just what the doctor ordered, what would go better with your chocolate city speel but...
Africanized honey bees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a match made in heaven. ENJOY
Bee Bump
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