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Winkler County quarantined for Africanized honey bees
Texas
Winkler County was added recently to the state quarantine restricting the movement of commercial bee operations following the detection of Africanized honey bees.
The addition makes 158 counties in Texas now quarantined for Africanized honey bees, according to Paul Jackson, chief of the Texas Apiary Inspection Service, a unit of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
A sample of wild bees was collected from a colony on Kermit Independent School District property and sent to the Texas Honey Bee Identification Lab in College Station. They were confirmed as Africanized by a lab test and after inspectors visited the site to assure that all bees had been killed, according to Jackson.
He said no one was stung by bees from the colony, which was discovered while employees were mowing.
The quarantine allows beekeepers to move beehives within, but not out of, the zone in an effort to prevent assisting the spread, Jackson said.
Africanized honey bees look just like regular domestic honey bees but are more defensive in protecting their hives, according to Jackson.
The Africanized bee was first detected in the United States near Brownsville in October 1990. Africanized honey bees also have been found in Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico.
Other counties included in the quarantine are: Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Cochran, Coleman, Colorado, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Comal, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallas, Dawson, De Witt, Dickens, Dimmit, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, Ellis, El Paso, Erath, Falls, Fayette, Fisher, Fort Bend, Frio, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Goliad, Gonzales, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Harris, Harrison, Haskell, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hudspeth, Irion, Jackson, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, Lampasas, La Salle, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Live Oak, Llano, Lubbock, Martin, Mason, Matagorda, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Montgomery, Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Parker, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Real, Refugio, Reeves, Robertson, Runnels, San Jacinto, San Patricio, Scurry, Schleicher, Shackelford, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Swisher, Sutton, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Travis, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wharton, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Young, Zapata and Zavala.
For information about honey bees on the Web, try http://honeybee.tamu.edu/.
Date: 11/24/04
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