Winkler County was added today 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 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 were confirmed as Africanized. Jackson said no one was stung by bees from the colony, which was discovered while employees were mowing.
For more, go to: http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/ENTO/AHBS/Nov0904a.htm.
Winkler county put under quarantine
November 11, 2004
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