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Show 'Killer' Bees Don't Have Thai Much Sting People will soon be viewing the science-fiction film "The Swarm" and the film along with other recent fictional stories about "killer bees" can create much undo alarm among the public. Reed Roberts, , extension entomologist with Utah State University, says the "Africanized" honev bees, the real bees behind the fiction featured in movies, books. magazines, newspapers and on television, are not nearly as ferocious as depicted in the sensational stories. Also U. S Department of Agriculture researchers who have been studying behavior of the hybridized bees have been keeping close watch on their movement They say these bees have not been seen closer than 2,500 miles from the U. S border By natural migration thev shouldn't reach the , J ! J J United States sooner than 10 to 15 years from now. Extensive quarantine regulations on bees aim to prevent them from being brought in. |