University Dally Kansan, February 25. 1981
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Killer bees fly toward U.S.
By ANNIKAN NILSSON Staff Reporter
The Africanized honeybees, popularly known as killer bees, are now reaching Panama in their flight toward North America.
The bees will go through Mexico perhaps as early as 1988 and according to Orley Taylor, professor of entomology, they will reach Texas and spread through the southern gulf states.
The first swarms of the aggressive bees escaped from a bee keeper in Brazil in 1987.
Taylor said the Africanized bees had an incredible capacity to multiply. They swarm three to four times a year, producing a large number of bees imported to European bees. Each swarm produces a new colony.
One of Taylor's students has
determined that 1,000 colonies would yield 15,900 colonies after one year's growth.
According to Taylor, the problems with Africanized bees occur in areas with high density of bees as well as humans and farm animals.
"In Venezuela the past two years, there have been quite a few problems and from October 1979 to September 2016, human deaths due to bees," he said.
These people die from the mass of stings and Taylor said there were many accounts of people who had stung in hundreds and even thousands of bees.
But Taylor said he thought the Africanized bee could be modified and made quite useful for honey production.
sticking to the European bees," he said. "Using the European bees in a losing proposition in the lowland tropics."
"We have been using people in South and Central America to consider getting into an African bee improvement program rather than
Taylor said the major concern in the United States was the prospect of African bees spreading through the bee-producing states.
"If it does that, it will be very disruptive to the bee industry in the United States even if it does not kill a bee or an or a single animal," Taylor said.
The Africanized bees will invade areas now used for production of bees and queens that are used to replace bees that die during the winter in other parts of the country, he said.
Taylor said an end to queen bee production could affect the availability of honeybees for crop pollination. About 90 crops, in many fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees, he said.
Many students have food memories of Grandma's silver serving set that she kept polished shiny and bright in her dining room cabinet. The set was handed down from generation to generation and it wasn't to be touched.
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
Stolen silver provides golden payoffs
Today, most people own some of the precious metal-in-coins, jewelry or silverware. The price of silver items are prime targets for bargains.
PEOPLE WHO ARE PROUD of their sterling silver serving sets display them in glass cabinets or on mantle in easy target for thieves, Olin said.
Tweesle stole almost $300,000 worth of silver items in Lawrence last year, according to Assistant Police Chief Ron Kearns. The department were serving siege-like grandmother's.
An average-priced four-place place setting of sterling silver tableware tableware with each teaspoon costing $8. Enough place settings for eight cost $2,640.
Recovery of stolen silver is difficult because the thieves either fence it
outside of Lawrence or melt it down, making identification impossible.
'The true value—the sentimental value—is never recognized.' Oleo said.
value is never recovered. Omni said.
HE SAID most silver robberies occurred around Christmas.
"That's when the biggest demand for silver is," he said.
However, the silver market is currently in a slump, according to local jewelry stores.
A jeweler at Mark's Jewelers, 817 Massachusetts St., said that sales were "way down."
"People just aren't buying silver much since the price doubled, tripled and quadrupled," jeweler Brad Parsons said.
MCQUEEN JEWELERS, 809 Massachusetts St., stopped carrying silver sets a few months ago.
"There just wasn't anyone buying them, so we stopped having them altogether. R. G. McGowan said, "We one person else if someone wants one, though."
Silver robberies have become more frequent because thieves are guaranteed a good price for their stolen goods and they know they cannot be *identified*.
However, every cloud has a silver
lining. The Lawrence City Commission passed an ordinance last week requiring the licensing of precious metals dealers.
THREE TYPES of licenses will be issued, Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said.
"There are permanent licenses for pawn shops, temporary licenses for dealers who travel and work from hotel rooms." The lawyer for operators of coin shows, "he said.
The dealers also will have to record any transactions of $50 or more involving gold, silver and other precious metals.
City Commissioner Barkley Clark said the records would enable police to trace precious metal objects by checking the records for specific items.
OLIN SAID the best way to prevent silver theft was to store valuable items in a safety deposit box and take them out only for special occasions.
He also suggested that people ask police for a residential security survey so that police would have a record of valuable items in the home.
People can also have a jewelier engrave their silverware with their driver's license number and can photograph it for identification
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