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...Panama, where the Canal Commission maintains 24-hour bee-control teams to stop stowaway killer bees, quarantine posts are being established on roads leading out of the southern Mexico defense area to prevent swarms from hitchhiking. Whole colonies have made their way to California on board freighters, but all the known stowaways have been destroyed...
While the showdown looms in Mexico, U.S. scientists are looking for further clues to the Africanized bee's physiology. There is some evidence, for example, that killer bees do not thrive in colder climates. But even if they colonize only in the warmer Southern states, there is plenty of reason to worry about the potential costs. Lost sales of honey and damage to fruit, nut and vegetable crops worth billions of dollars each year could be substantial, not to mention lives lost to fatal stings...
Already killer bees have exacted a toll in fear that shows no signs of abating. "The bees are coming," says Fowden Maxwell, an entomologist at Texas A & M. "There's no way to stop them. But I'm optimistic we can minimize their impact." Still, says Houston Beekeeper Darrell Lister: "I'm afraid we're going to have a panic when they finally arrive. Everyone will be out with a spray can, and the only good bee will be a dead bee...
...bee, I can fly like a bird...
...hockey reporter from the Potsdam (N.Y.) Bee drags a cot and sleeping bag to post-game interviews with Clarkson Coach Cap Raeder...