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)...

East, and Africa. Africanized bees are a hybrid strain of A. mellifera that escaped from experiments involving crossing European and African subspecies;...

Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis). This subspecies has been determined to constitute one part of the ancestry of the Africanized bees (also known...

2 May 2018. "Elephants & Bees › Publications". Elephants & Bees. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. "Africanized Bee DeFense Against Hungry Elephants"...

determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26[citation needed] Tanzanian queen bees (Apis mellifera...

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...

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...

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...

the early 1850s. Africanized honey bees (known colloquially as "killer bees") are hybrids between European stock and the East African lowland subspecies...

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...