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Posted on June 25, 2014 at 7:12 PM

Updated yesterday at 8:42 PM

HOUSTON A historic community center in southwest Houston is one step closer to returning to its original purpose now that tens of thousands of unwanted guests have been rounded up and carted away along with their queens.

The Almeda Plaza Civic Club clubhouse on Knotty Oaks Trail fell into disrepair years ago and became a community eyesore. Plans to tear down the structure and rebuild were put on hold when two massive bee hives were discovered in the walls of the building.

I dont know if theyre honey bees or killer bees but every time we go there they sting us, said Beulah Maxie with the Almeda Plaza Civic Club.

Houston City Councilman Larry Green received an offer for help from Claude Griffin of Gotcha Pest Control. His three-man team suited up in protective suits on Wednesday and tore open an outside east-facing wall to reveal a floor-to-ceiling hive of honey bees. A second hive of equal size was found in a north facing wall.

This is a serious, serious issue that has been neglected for a very, very long time, said Griffin.

Neighbors, city officials and firefighters who were on standby in case anyone needed medical attention, retreated to their vehicles when the bees began to swarm and attack anyone within a city block of the building. No one was seriously injured, however, as Griffin removed several pounds of honeycomb and vacuumed the bees and their queens into cage containers so they could be safely carted away.

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A Port Orange man who committed burglaries while posing as a pest control worker was sentenced Tuesday to five years in a state prison, officials said.

Johnny Swanger faced up to 30 years in prison after he was convicted April 24 on charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling, dealing in stolen property and practicing pest control without a valid license, according to a release from the State Attorneys Office.

For several days in January 2013, Swanger, who is ordered to pay restitution to his victims, targeted older and terminally ill individuals, according to the release. Swanger, 46, stole jewelry worth several thousands of dollars after the victims invited him into their homes, believing he was going to treat the residences for pests.

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AVF investigators Georg Jander and Katja Poveda have received $498,000 in USDA funding to harness potato plants natural response to environmental stress. Their findings could deliver a sustainable pest control strategy that works with invading pests to increase crop yields and reduce insect damage.

Most farmers fight a constant battle against damaging insects. In a plant science version of keep your friends close but your enemies closer, Cornell researchers are working with a common potato pest to see if they can activate the natural defenses of potato plants by managing the bugs, rather than eradicating them.

The researchers aim to harness the plants physiological responses to environmental stress such as infestation as a sustainable pest control strategy that increases yields and reduces insect damage at the same time.

With seed funding from a 2011 Academic Venture Fund (AVF) award from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, entomologist Jennifer Thaler, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, led a multidisciplinary team that worked with farmers in the Andes to learn more about how infestation by the local scourge of tuber moths actually helped some potato plants produce up to twice the usual yield of potatoes by harvest. These plants responded to a moderate infestation by overcompensating and ramping up production above the losses caused by the insect.

A team members previous research had identified one Colombian potato variety that responds to moth damage with robust yields. The AVF fieldwork pinpointed a second variety that is an effective trap crop. By growing a decoy plant that the moths especially like to eat alongside the potato with powerful natural defenses, farmers are able to control the amount of damage to the majority of their crop enough damage to activate the extra growth, without excessively taxing the plant. This push-pull strategy could help farmers around the world get bigger harvests from each acre of existing farmland, without pesticides, say the researchers.

Now plant biologist Georg Jander, associate professor, and assistant professor of entomology Katja Poveda, collaborators on the AVF research, are launching a study of the overcompensating potato variety to determine what genetic and physiological factors kick-start the plants growth.

Once we have identified the mechanisms by which the tuber moth promotes tuber growth, Jander explained, we can apply these mechanisms to increase yield in other potato varieties. The new project recently received three-year funding of $498,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Potatoes are indigenous to the Andes and remain a staple crop in South America, where more than 3,000 varieties are grown. The AVF-funded research confirmed local farmers interest in sustainable pest control.

We learned that farmers value the health benefits from an alternative pest management strategy much more than we anticipated, Poveda said. They are aware of the health consequences of using insecticides and willing to change to alternatives if they do not compromise the productivity of the crop. In the third year of the USDA grant, the Cornell team will return to Colombia to test the potato in field trials across different altitudes, soils and climate conditions.

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