Killer Bees and the Housing Crisis

Africanized Bees

It is not the nature of European honey bees to attack this severely unless the dog actually tried to demolisih the hive. However Africanized bees are spreading and they are extremely aggressive. I would be amazed if these are not Africanized bees. They will continue to attack for up to an hour and have chased people a quarter of a mile. They usually attack the face and eye first. Also unlike the benign European honey bee, they are immune to most pesticides so pesticides only annoy them and make them dangerous.

It is most important to educate the public that we desparately need honey bees. We are facing an agricultural disaster of massive size due to the dwindling bee population. Our war on insects has been most successful. There are few native bees left and very few pollinators. However there is now the rise of super pest such as the Africanized bees and the tiny ant now residing in Houston who are resistant to pesticides.

To survive we need to use common sense and find the natural predator of whatever bug is infesting a crop and encourage the predator's presence.

Sharilyn Wood Stalling of AR @ Jun 10, 2008 13:08:10 PM