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Killer Bees & the Sunflower State

04-02-06: European honeybees, like the ones we see in Kansas, are normally calm and docile. But soon Africanized or what Hollywood has coined "killer bees" may be buzzing into the Sunflower State.

This has Tom Sanders with the Kansas Department of Agriculture concerned.

"One sting from an Africanized bee is no more dangerous or harmful that a sting from a European bee, the problem is, that in an attack situation, if the bees become disturbed or agitated they tend to sting in greater numbers" says Sanders.

Africanized bees started as an experiment in South America more than 50 years ago and have been moving to the north ever since.

They are now about 70 miles from the Oklahoma-Kansas border and could enter the state in the next few years.

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