Post by CrazySting on Jan 8, 2007 19:08:11 GMT -5
www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-29/11682...
Traps to help track Africanized 'killer' bees
ARABI, La. (AP) — A team of agriculturalists set out Monday to put traps
within a half-mile radius of a storm-wrecked house confirmed last month
to be infested with aggressive Africanized bees.
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Bob Odom said the traps will help
determine whether the bees are established in the southeastern part of
the state. The same type of traps are already used to monitor the
progression of the bees in the western part of Louisiana, where they
were first found in 2005, Odom said.
"So far, this is an isolated find in the New Orleans area," he said.
The bees, often called "killer bees," drove away contractors hired to
tear down the house in Arabi, a St. Bernard Parish community that
borders New Orleans. Then the bees drove off beekeepers called in to
catch them.
Mosquito control workers killed the bees, and the state agriculture
department confirmed in late December that they were hybrids with the
aggressive African strain, Odom said.
The bees should have went on a rampage, killing everyone in sight, until Bruce Campbell showed up to save the day! Or have I been watching too many sci fi movies?
Traps to help track Africanized 'killer' bees
ARABI, La. (AP) — A team of agriculturalists set out Monday to put traps
within a half-mile radius of a storm-wrecked house confirmed last month
to be infested with aggressive Africanized bees.
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Bob Odom said the traps will help
determine whether the bees are established in the southeastern part of
the state. The same type of traps are already used to monitor the
progression of the bees in the western part of Louisiana, where they
were first found in 2005, Odom said.
"So far, this is an isolated find in the New Orleans area," he said.
The bees, often called "killer bees," drove away contractors hired to
tear down the house in Arabi, a St. Bernard Parish community that
borders New Orleans. Then the bees drove off beekeepers called in to
catch them.
Mosquito control workers killed the bees, and the state agriculture
department confirmed in late December that they were hybrids with the
aggressive African strain, Odom said.
The bees should have went on a rampage, killing everyone in sight, until Bruce Campbell showed up to save the day! Or have I been watching too many sci fi movies?
