here's a story from Oklahoma, near Tulsa. it's scary to think that this can happen...

From NewsChannel 8:
Fatal Attack On Great Dane Not From Africanized Bees
Location: Sand Springs, OK
Posted: May 25, 2006 8:00 AM EST
URL: http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0506/330856.html


Sand Springs (AP) - Preliminary tests show a swarm of bees that attacked and killed a great Dane dog this week weren't Africanized "killer" bees.

Thousands of bees stung and killed the 140-pound great Dane in front of the dog's family on Monday.

State Agriculture, Food and Forestry Department spokesman Jack Carson says the tests normally take two weeks, but the agency placed a priority on the tests because a large mammal had been killed.

Carson says D-N-A tests show the bees were European, although the tested bees will be sent to a lab in Arizona to rule out any possibility of African lineage.

The Agriculture Department says the closest case of Africanized bees to Sand Springs came last year in McIntosh County in east-central Oklahoma.

Carson says a swarm of European bees can act aggressive if they've been exposed to Africanized bees.