"Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence"
That seems very specific, were there that many people trying to use Elephants for farm labor in North Carolina?
Silly laws like that usually are the result of a specific incident that went to court wherein a ruling was made to outlaw the practice in order to prevent said incident from occurring again.
...like declaring Pi equal to 3 in one county... muricans its sums it all nicely.