COUNTY'S OFFICIALLY INFESTED BY KILLER BEES.Byline: Douglas Haberman Daily News Staff Writer The conquest is complete: Killer bees Killer Bees Those who help a company fend off a takeover attempt with the use of defensive strategies. Notes: Companies, usually with the help of investment bankers, use a number of strategies to repel a hostile takeover bid including, but are not limited to: poison have added Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County to the territory they have colonized Colonized This occurs when a microorganism is found on or in a person without causing a disease. Mentioned in: Isolation in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Officials declared the entire county colonized Thursday after DNA tests confirmed that bees found at a house in Palmdale on March 18 were Africanized. The confirmation led county agricultural officials to add 2,415 square miles to the previously colonized areas, making all 4,083 square miles of the county now officially colonized. County officials have identified at least 25 colonies countywide, from Rolling Hills Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a "hill chain" of hills that roll on and on continually. You will often find them in between plains and mountains, near major rivers, or randomly anywhere. The only places without rolling hills are deserts and flood plains. Estates to Palmdale. ``How many are out there that we haven't found? We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ,'' said Cato Fiksdal, the county agricultural commissioner. The declaration simply puts people on notice to be more careful around honeybees because there's a much better chance than ever they are the more aggressive Africanized honeybees, he said. Their stings are no more potent than European honey bees, but the so-called killer bees will attack quicker and longer, pursuing humans or animals for up to a quarter mile. They will even wait out somebody who seeks refuge underwater. More than 50 multiple stinging incidents in California, involving either people or animals, have been reported. But no one has died from the attacks in this state. Since 1990, five people in the United States have died from multiple stinging attacks by the bees. The county first found a colony of the Africanized honey bees in the wall of a Lawndale apartment building in December 1998. On March 5, another colony found in Calabasas led agricultural officials to expand the colonized area to include the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . The bees found in Palmdale, which the homeowner later had exterminated, ``are thought to be part of the ongoing migration of bees coming from colonized areas in San Bernardino County,'' Fiksdal said. The Africanized honey bees have now colonized 42,335 square miles in seven Southern California counties: Imperial, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Los Angeles and portions of Ventura. While business has gone up in the last five months or so for structural pest control operators in Southern California, there hasn't been a noticeable increase in Los Angeles County, said Eric Paulsen, technical manager for the Pest Control Operators of California. Still, many pest control operators are getting trained or retrained in exterminating the killer bees, he said. That involves taking more safety precautions than necessary with European bees. He and Fiksdal said that within one to five years, most of the bees in the county will have been Africanized through natural interbreeding interbreeding crossbreeding, as between half-breds. . |
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