This blog post is a transition from The Beatles to bees! Louisiana's Agricultural Commissioner says that killer bees (aka Africanized bees) probably have established themselves in the New Orleans area.
Africanized bees are the result of an experiment to increase honey production in Brazil. A swarm escaped a lab in 1957 and headed north. When they mated with native strains, the offspring were as aggressive as the African parents. They reached Texas in 1990 and have spread west to California and east to Florida. They were first found in Louisiana in Caddo Parish, in June 2005...
Talking about Killer bees, the apiarist above was trying to cover himself with roughly half a million Africanized bees to break the 1998 Guinness world record of 350,000.
When Killer bees started migrating to Hidalgo, Texas, the mayor of that town decided to bee different, and welcome them with open arms.
Most towns would view this occasion with horror, something best left unmentioned in the hope that it would be forgotten. Happily, Hidalgo was blessed with a mayor who knew that killer bees bring honey as well as a sting. John Franz gave the media the buzz: Hidalgo was "Killer Bee Capital of the World" and proud of it. Within two years Franz had wheedled 20 grand from his city's budget to build the World's Largest Killer Bee.
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