Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
Chapter 30 - Consumer Protection
Subchapter 38 - Apiaries
Section 35:30-38-8 - Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata)
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 35:30-38-8
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a) Infestations of African honeybees shall be identified by a method prescribed by the Department, including but not limited to Mitochondrial DNA, DALY'S Morphometric Analysis, or FABIS I or II (Fast Africanized Bee Identification System).
(b) Colonies of honeybees with a high probability of being Africanized based on the above tests or any feral swarm of bees found in counties with Africanized honeybees shall be:
(1) Destroyed; or
(2) Quarantined and requeened with marked
Certified European queens.
(A) The colony
shall be resampled after the first generation of European offspring has
emerged.
(B) If the subsequent
sampling reveals bees with a high probability of being "European," the
quarantine shall be lifted.
(C) If
subsequent sampling reveals bees with a high probability of being Africanized,
the colony shall be destroyed.
(c) Colonies of bees identified as Africanized that exhibit extreme aggressive behavior shall be destroyed if the requeening process fails or the public is at risk.
Added at 23 Ok Reg 878, eff 5-11-06
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