The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera)...
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East, and Africa. Africanized bees are a hybrid strain of A. mellifera that escaped from experiments involving crossing European and African subspecies;...
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Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis). This subspecies has been determined to constitute one part of the ancestry of the Africanized bees (also known...
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determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26[citation needed] Tanzanian queen bees (Apis mellifera...
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A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female (gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen...
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Look up killer bees in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Killer bees most often refers to Africanized bees, a hybrid of the African honey bee with various...
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although bees do not typically sting while swarming. Africanized bees, a hybrid of the western honey bee and the East African lowland honey bee, are more...
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mellifera). However, the Africanized bee (hybridized with Apis mellifera scutellata) can also be removed safely, relocated, and kept alive. Bee removal professionals...
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winter stores, the Africanized bee colonies tend to perish in the winter in higher latitudes.[citation needed] Generally, a weak bee colony will not swarm...
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