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As in 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...
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...
Right now the migrating bees have begun to reach the Pacific Coast killing fields, where hives baited with pheromones, or sexual scents, await them. Once the insects are enticed inside, plastic bags will be pulled tight over the hives to suffocate them. To prevent the bees from taking over the...
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...
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...