Llano County added to "killer bee" quarantine list
From KXAN-TV36 (Austin, Texas), at: http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1492872&nav=0s3dIfvJ

Llano County has become the 150th Texas county added to the so-called "killer bee" quarantine list. Wednesday's action restricts the movement of commercial bee operations following the detection of Africanized honey bees in the Central Texas county. A sample from a colony in Tow -- about 90 miles northwest of Austin -- was sent to the Texas Honey Bee Identification Lab in College Station.

Officials say two people in the area were stung 150 to 250 times each while mowing lawns. Both victims have recovered from the stings and the bees have been destroyed.

The quarantine allows beekeepers to move hives within but not out of the zone.

The Africanized bee was first detected in the U.S. near Brownsville in October of 1990. Texas has 254 counties.

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