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This is not true. Perhaps in AZ it is true, but current information does not indicate that they have spread much beyond the southern areas. The biggest threat to american bees right now is not the africanized bees but colony collapse disorder.
Agree--there are no proven case of Africanized bees in the northern part of the US--above the Mexican/US border. Check this map http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6
A colony of bees is like a living entity with the queen at the center. Sometimes, for no apparent reason some of the bees go nuts--not unlike USPS employees--and attack. Once the smell of the venom gets in the air the rest join in and a frenzy results. What happened in this case may come out in the postmortem and maybe it won't. A couple of years ago I was playing golf on a nice warm September day and got stung 5 times while standing on a tee--up to that time no one even knew there was a bee tree next to the tee and, according to the pro, no one else ever got stung there. Wrong place at the wrong time--luckily I wasn't allergic. BTW, that colony is still there--they just moved the tee.
This is not true. Perhaps in AZ it is true, but current information does not indicate that they have spread much beyond the southern areas. The biggest threat to american bees right now is not the africanized bees but colony collapse disorder.
Agree--there are no proven case of Africanized bees in the northern part of the US--above the Mexican/US border. Check this map http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6
A colony of bees is like a living entity with the queen at the center. Sometimes, for no apparent reason some of the bees go nuts--not unlike USPS employees--and attack. Once the smell of the venom gets in the air the rest join in and a frenzy results. What happened in this case may come out in the postmortem and maybe it won't. A couple of years ago I was playing golf on a nice warm September day and got stung 5 times while standing on a tee--up to that time no one even knew there was a bee tree next to the tee and, according to the pro, no one else ever got stung there. Wrong place at the wrong time--luckily I wasn't allergic. BTW, that colony is still there--they just moved the tee.
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