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For more information on Nevada's Africanized bees, including how to get rid of them, you can contact one of the valley experts listed below:

Clark County Vector Control (702) 455-7543	Nevada Pest Control Association Bee removal from private property (702) 380-3836
Nevada Department of Agriculture (702) 486-4690

African bees were imported into South America in 1956 as part of an experiment to breed the bees and adapt them to a jungle climate. Some of the bees escaped quarantine and bred with the local bees. Now the bees and their hybrids spread at a rate of 200 miles per year.

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