There is no way to tell with out sending in 30 to 50 bees in a jar of
alcohol for examination.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6
>From my experience, working with bees in Florida for many years, That is not
the behavior I would expect from a swarm of european honey bees.
Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland
>From: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- perils of Fla collecting
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:08:05 -0500
>
>Actually, Africanized bees have not just appeared in Texas a few
>times. A number of people have been seriously injured and a couple
>have died from Africanized bees in the state. Essentially, all the
>bees in the southern half the state are Africanized. Several years
>ago, when the impact of honey bee declines around the country was
>being noticed, a bee expert for the Texas A&M USDA Extention Service
>made the statement in a seminar-in-UT Brownsville, where I was then a
>professor, that S. Texas doesn't have that problem (the disappearance
>of honey bees), because Africanized bees are resistant to the
>pathogens and parasites that are causing it, and Africanized bees are
>all we have.
>
>I don't know about Florida.
>
>Dave
>
>David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
>Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
>Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
>telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
>home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
>
>"Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mysteryman <bestfish-in-alaweb.com>
>Date: Friday, July 28, 2006 7:23 am
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- perils of Fla collecting
> > What makes you think that they were killer bees, anyway, the fact
> > that they
> > attacked you?
> > It IS the tail end of swarm season, and you did kick their nest...
> > what
> > would you have expected them to do?
> >
> > I have a beehive in my house. They live in my bathroom walls and
> > attic. The
> > bathroom window is a nifty little spot where I can observe them. I
> > know they
> > aren't africanized, but I still know better than to try to run the
> > lawn
> > mower anywhere near the bathroom.
> >
> > I suppose the prudent thing to do is to alert the local
> > authorities to the
> > presence of the swarm and report the incident, but don't go
> > hitting the
> > panic button just yet. Africanized bees have appeared in Texas a
> > few times
> > and I think maybe in Florida, so while I doubt that these are such
> > bees, it
> > is a possibility.
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