Africanized bee
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee, produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee with various European honey bee... Wikipedia
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These African bee escapees have since formed hybrid populations with European Honey Bees, both feral and from commercial hives. They have gradually spread ...
The Africanized bee is a hybrid species of the Western honey bee. These so-called “killer” bees were established when bees from southern Africa and local ...
Africanized Honey Bees are the same species as the familiar European honey bees (EHB) used to produce honey and pollinate crops, but a different subspecies.
The Situation: Africanized honey bees are a hybrid between European and African bee subspecies which were inadvertently released in Brazil in the 1950s.
African honeybees are much more hostile than European varieties, as their natural environment has far more predators looking to destroy hives for honey.