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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 ...
Africanized honeybee, (Apis mellifera scutellata ×A. mellifera), hybrid honeybee resulting from the accidental release of African honeybees into the Western Hemisphere in 1957 and their subsequent crossbreeding with local European honeybees.
Africanized honey bees (AHB) are now found throughout much of South, Central and southern North America, but may have reached an upper and lower limit to their spread at about the 34°N and 34°S latitude (Visscher et al 1997; Kerr et al 1982), based in part to their inability to survive extended cold periods (Taylor 2003; Villa et al 1991, 1993).
Africanized Bees are also known as ‘Killer Bees‘ and are hybrids of the African Honey Bee and various European Honey Bees. The Africanized Bee in the western hemisphere descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees (A. m. scutellata) accidentally released by a replacement bee keeper in 1957.
Africanized “killer” bees are a tropical hybrid between the European honeybee and the East African Lowland honeybee; both are the same species, but have totally different approaches to life. Africanized Bee Facts Overview.
Species Profile: Africanized Honeybee. More aggressive than European honeybees; negative impact on honey production industry (Kono and Kohn 2015)
For the past 50 years, the Africanized honey bee (sometimes referred to as the “killer” bee by sensationalist media stories) has been a public health concern in South and North America. Initially imported to Brazil in the mid-1950s, this invasive species spread northward into the United States by the early 1990s.
Africanized bees (sometimes sensationalized as “killer bees”) are the type of honey bees which have migrated from South America into some of the lower United States. Honey bees are not native to the Americas; prior to 1956, the only honey bees found in North and South America were European honey bees, which were brought to the New World as ...
ORDER: Hymenoptera. GENUS: Apis. FAMILY: Apidae. SPECIES & SUBSPECIES: mellifera scutellata. Description: The general appearance of "Killer Bees" (= Africanized Bees) is the same as common Honey Bees, but there are some distinctive physical differences between the two.
Hence the term "Africanized Honey Bee" (AFB) is a common name given to a race of honey bees whose genetic line emerged from the initial escape of African bees in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The offspring of these "mismatings" defended their nests more vigorously than European bees and swarmed more often.