Word: beese
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For years Texas residents have been abuzz about the imminent invasion of Africanized honeybees. But in recent months the hum over the so-called killer bees has reached frenzied proportions. Local television stations have been running tapes from crews dispatched to Central America, showing ferocious swarms attacking researchers and news...
Well, no, not quite yet. The nervous callers apparently mistook the gentler European honeybees for the aggressive killer bees, which U.S. officials say have proceeded no farther northward than central Mexico. But the Texans' growing unease is understandable: unless the bees are headed off or at least slowed down, they...
The insects have been migrating northward by the millions since 1957, when several swarms imported to Brazil from Africa were accidentally released. Sounding like a small airplane in flight, the hordes have been traveling at the rate of more than 300 miles a year. The bees are more aggressive than...
Once the bees cross the Rio Grande, scientists fear, they could wreak havoc among U.S. beekeepers and farmers whose crops depend on bees for pollination. Reason: aggressive Africanized bees, which will interbreed with their gentler domestic cousins, are less efficient pollinators and honey producers.
The sites chosen for the coming standoff are two coastal strips centered on Puerto Escondido on the Pacific Coast and Huatuxco on the Caribbean. The bees, which are reluctant to fly higher than 3,000 ft., will be funneled into passes, where they will be trapped and killed or tricked...