During the 2005 season of Apiary Inspection, in New York State, samples of honeybees, from six different bee hives, were sent out for FABIS evaluation. At the winter meeting of the Empire State Honey Producers Association, in Syracuse, NY, on December 2, 2005, Apiary Inspection Program Supervisor Paul Cappy reported that five of the six samples had resulted in findings of that indicate that those samples were European. He also reported that the results of the sixth sample had not yet come back. 
   
  The results of the last sample have come back. The FABIS test indicated that the full morphometric test should be done. It was. The results from this test indicate that this sixth sample of honeybees, collected from an apiary in NY, is Africanized.
   
  The hive that this sample of, now known, Africanized Honeybees came from was located, in a migratory beekeeper's apiary, in the Eastern Central part of NY state. Two Apiary Inspectors were working the apiary when the hives were "field tested" for indications of possible Africanization, one Inspector was driven back to his truck by the bees persist ant stinging. A sample of bees was collected, tagged and documented. Forms were filled out to request the FABIS test. The forms and the sample were sent out to a USDA Lab for analysis. The hive in question was put under a Quarantine and Abatement Order. The hive had very few bees in it. It is my understanding that the be keeper voluntarily depopulated this hive and moved the rest of the hives back to his home state.



		
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