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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), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).
By appearing as bees, palatable flies gain protection from predators that recognize bees as noxious and therefore unappetizing. [7] Bateson argued with the counterexamples that Volucella females entered bumblebee nests belonging to species that they did not mimic and that a European species with similar habits actually benefited the host ...
A single East African lowland bee sting is no more venomous than a single European bee sting, though East African lowland honey bees respond more quickly when disturbed than do European honey bees. They send out three to four times as many workers in response to a threat. They will also pursue an intruder for a greater distance from the hive.
Replacing hives is expensive for commercial beekeepers like Lake County’s Sweet Bee Co., which has 1,500 colonies. New queen alone costs $30. Florida beekeepers feel the sting from dead bees ...
The Killer Bees, an American funk/soul/rock band co-founded by Papa Mali WXKB , a Top 40 music radio station in Cape Coral, Florida nicknamed "The Killer B" Killer Bee, a former branding of Quest Broadcasting 's regional stations in the Philippines:
SORRENTO — Keith Seifert Jr. is calm surrounded by bees. While he wears protective gear over his head, the 34-year-old beekeeper leaves his arms exposed in a T-shirt as he opens up a hive under ...
A Florida beach town is abuzz with speculation after thousands of dead bees washed up on shore with no clear-cut explanation as to how they died. Thousands of dead bees wash up on Florida beach ...
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