The State - News from Oct. 7, 1985

An eighth colony of Africanized bees has been found and destroyed in Kern County, the state Department of Food and Agriculture said. The colony was located in a commercial apiary about five miles from where the first swarm of Africanized bees in the United States was discovered last June. The apiary where the eighth colony was found and other apiaries within a two-mile radius will be placed under a quarantine for six weeks, officials said. The Africanized bees, which officials say may have come into the United States from South America on oil rig equipment, are more aggressive than domestic bees, although their stings are no more toxic.