KILLER BEES SPOTTED IN TWO VALLEY SITES.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services 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 been found in Topanga Canyon and Hidden Hills, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a weekly report released Friday by the county agricultural head. A colony of the Africanized honey bee honey bee called also Apis mellifera. See also bee sting. , previously believed to inhabit only areas south of the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. , was found in an abandoned apiary on Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. Road in Topanga, according to the report. Another colony was found in a tree in the 23000 block of Long Valley Road in Hidden Hills. State and county health officials have declared 1,668 square miles of Los Angeles County ``colonized'' by the pests. The entire 4,083-square-mile county is expected to be colonized Colonized This occurs when a microorganism is found on or in a person without causing a disease. Mentioned in: Isolation by the end of the year. Statewide, 38,920 square miles are colonized with killer bees, including all of Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties. The county has set up a toll-free phone number at (800) BEE-WARY to provide more information on the bees. People who find a bee colony or swarm outdoors should call the Greater Los Angeles Vector Control District at (800) 925-3800. Bees spotted in homes or businesses should be exterminated by a certified pest control specialist trained to treat and remove them. African honeybees escaped from a Brazilian agriculture research station in 1957 and began breeding with more docile European honeybees. This resulted in Africanized honeybees, an aggressive hybrid that fiercely defends its territory and spawns new colonies at up to four times the rate of its European cousins. Authorities believe they arrived on the shores of Southern California via cargo container ships docking in Los Angeles Harbor. |
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