Stories tagged with: honduras

• 'Killer' bees, Bapt. relief efforts help farmers

  by Ann Lovell, posted Monday, September 14, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  BGR photo

  COPÁN RUINAS, Honduras (BP) -- The buzzing grows louder as the small group climbs the mountain toward the bee hives. Decked out in protective gear, the group approaches carefully. They've heard the stories of these bees -- Africanized "killer" bees who swarm aggressively and whose painful venom can damage human tissue and even lead to kidney failure and death.

  "The bees are a very different type of work. Sometimes it's fun but also sometimes a little scary," says Obando Velásquez, an agricultural extensionist with the Chorti ... Read More