PARK RIDGE, 11. - “Killer”
bees discovered in California
recently pose an “enormous”
threat to agriculture, the nation’s
most important industry.
“More than $4O billion worth of
agricultural commodities a year
are dependent on domestic bees for
pollination,” said Don Rawlins,
American Farm Bureau natural
and environmental resources
director. “These ‘Africanized’
bees are not as efficient as the
domesticated honeybees,
pollinating fewer blossoips and
causing reduced yields. The in
vaders readily interbreed with
domestic bees, passing on un
desirable traits to the progeny.
Maybe worst of all, the Africanized
bee carries a parasite, the varroa
mite, that devastates honeybees,
causing 90 to 95 percent fatalities.”
According to Rawlins, this is not
the first time Africanized bees
have been found in the U.S. “Two
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Killer bees pose threat
swarms were detected on ships in
the ports of Baltimore and Tampa
several years ago. Both were
promptly eradicated,” he said.
He warned that extensive
searches must be undertaken near
the California site to make certain
no other swarms are present. “A
honeybee swarm will number in
the hundreds. An Africanized
queen only needs 20 or 30 workers
to start a new colony. So
Africanized colonies are smaller
and harder to find, in addition to
spreading more rapidly due to
smaller population requirements,”
he said. Once found, the bees can
easily be eradicated with several
common pesticides.
The “killer” label is an
exaggeration, Rawlins said. “The
sting of an Africanized bee is no
more poisonous or painful than
that of a honeybee. After an
Africanized bee stings its victim,
however, it is believed that a
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chemical is released that attracts
and stimulates other Atncaaued
bees, prompting them to attack,
also.”
Africanized bees look very Center at the Fayette Campus of
similar to domestic bees and even the Pennsylvania State University
trained entomologists must make after J. Lewis Williams was ap
-30 individual comparisons to tell proved by the Penn State Board of
the two varieties apart. Trustees here today (July 13).
The aggressiveness traces back The facility, centrally located on
to the original swarm of African the Fayette campus, is named
bees brought to Brazil in the 1950 s after Williams, an alumnus,
by researchers. The bees escaped member of the board of trustees
and spread northward over the -from 1955 through 1979, community
decades. leader and successful
Researchers, such as Dr. Orley
Taylor of Kansas State University,
predicted the arrival of
Africanized bees in the U.S. by
1988. Rawlins said the bees found
in an oil field in Kem County,
California were probably brought
in on equipment or machinery
imported from Mexico, Costa Rica
or other infested Central American
counties.
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UNIONTOWN, PA - The
naming of the Study-Learning
businessman.
A key figure in the founding of
the Fayette Campus and a
member of its Advisory Board for
19 years, Williams was named a
distinguished alumnus of Penn
State in 1970. He retired from the
Board as trustee emeritus.
He combined a farm machinery
dealership and a large dairy farm
near Uniontown with service to the
community, the University and
agriculture.
A 1927 graduate of Penn State’s
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 3,1985-A25
Fayette learning center
agriculture course, Williams was
named “Superior Farmer” by the
Greater Uniontown Chamber of
Commerce in 1952 and “Master
Farmer” by “Pennsylvania
Farmer” magazine in 1955.
An honorary member of the
Pennsylvania County Agents
Association, he served as president
of both the Fayette County and
Southwestern Pennsylvania
Holstein Breeder Association, the
Pennsylvania Dairymen’s
Association and the Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative.
For 19 years he was the
secretary-treasurer of the Penn
sylvania Association of Artificial
Breeding Cooperatives.
His service to the community
included chairing the Fayette
County Redevelopment Authority
for more than a decade. He was
also superintendent of the Fayette
County Institutional District for 10
years and a county commissioner
for eight years.
He died on March 7,1984.