Aggressive bees exterminated

Talk about a spoonful of sugar.

That doesn't help the bees go down.

Instead, about 10 pounds of sugar lured a swarm of about 200 to 300 bees to an oilfield work truck on Tuesday afternoon in the 8900 block of Dublin Avenue in Lawndale.

Dublin Avenue resident Lisa Bizzell notified Animal Control the bees had returned Tuesday afternoon after the insects swarmed her white 4-door sedan while she pulled into her driveway about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Bizzell said at that time because the bees were bouncing off her vehicle.

"It sounded like hail," she said. "It was that bad."

On Tuesday, the bees hovered around her husband, Michael's, truck. The vehicle was holding about 10 pounds of sugar in a plastic bag underneath the toolbox.

Michael Bizzell said sugar retards the setting of cement in his oilfield work.

Joe Barreraz, Animal Control supervisor, received a call about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday about the bees.

It didn't take him long to notice them under the box in the truck.

Charles Delaney, of Delaney Pest Control, tried to locate the bees Monday afternoon to no avail.

He exterminated the bees Tuesday with an insecticide powder and said he wasn't sure if the bees were honey or Africanized.

Since the bees were said to be aggressive Monday, he said, he was given the order to douse them with the powder using a leaf-blower-type device.

"We only have one choice to just get rid of them," Delaney said.