Africanized News Today

Books and film heralded an Alfred Hitchcock-worthy invasion, but the 1990 arrival of Africanized bees, thankfully, didnt live up to the hype.

The Texas citys declaration says that bees “now have the right to exist and flourish free of harm.”

The show airs in Austin this weekend. San Antonio’s KLRN will show the program in the...

The popular Austin-based Tik Tok beekeeper with the honey-blonde locks has been called...

President of the united states, the one thing you can always count on is white americas fear of the black man. >> weve heard the stories on the news, in the papers, and they have killed people. killer bees, known as africanized bees. im scared. >> rosemary never expected a nest of africanized killer bees to shack up across the street. >> im terribly allergic to them. >> theyre originally from southern and eastern africa. dr. care brought some to brazil and fried to mate them with the european be...

>> is he dangerous? whats he up to? >> what are you trying to pull, man? >> why are people scared? >> remember all the y2k scares? werent we told that our very society was about to collapse because somebody forgot to type in a couple of digits on the computer? >> theres going to be mass chaos and confusion. >> tonight the countdown begins. all day store director rick smith watched consumers get y2k ready. >> batteries, lamp oil, generators. >> after sending the country into a panic, the clock st...

>> all day the store director watched people get ready. >> batteries sold well, lamp oil, generators. >> after sending the country into a panic, the clock struck midnight and nothing happened. or how about those killer bees that were going to attack america? >> were almost certain they will arrive this year. >> they expect the africanized bees to reach texas this year, crossing into arizona, in about two to three years. and the killer bees, it is overly aggressive. >> they will follow you for a ...

Killer bees to shack up across the street. >> im terribly allergic to them and so are my grandkids. >> theyre originally in south africa and brought to brazil in 1956 and tried to mate with the european bee. kind that were used to but they got loose, and took over and moved all the way to the southern united states. the main difference between the traditional honey bee and an africanized bee is the bees aggressiveness. and to do this to an africanized bee hive, i could have several hun stings in...

>> and i told him, i loved them and i hollered i loved them. >> and it is just a tragedy. >> the anonymous urban, which means usually black, male, comes by and does this, it is the excuse for all kinds of things. >> charles stewart the lawyer in boston kills his pregnant wife and says a black guy did it and everybody buys it. >> the suspect described as a black male 6 feet tall. chuck and carol stewart were robbed at gunpoint as they left a lamaze class. it seemed the ultimate urban nightmare. >...

We turn to a situation out in southern california. dangerous one and even a deadly one. >> yeah, thats right, because the landscapers recovering from critical injuries that he sustained when he was attacked by thousands of bees. unfortunately, another man died from the same attack. >> this happens more than you think, as abcs clayton sandell reports. >> reporter: these firefighters are not fighting a fire. theyre spraying foam and pesticide where swarming bees attacked a landscaping crew. one pe...