Too bad for the city that I do not mean these guys.

The Killer Bees

Will New Orleans ever catch a break? A week after getting smoked by the Colts in the NFL opener, now they have to deal with bees.

From Foxnews.com

Africanized honeybees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as “killer bees,” appear to have established themselves in the New Orleans area, the state agriculture commissioner said.

A swarm of the bees was captured about five miles from where demolition workers found a colony of Africanized bees in January, commissioner Bob Odom said Tuesday.

The most recent find was close enough to the earlier find that the bees might have come from the same colony. But they might also have flown ashore from a passing ship or barge, Odom said in a news release.

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