Novel hybrid strains of domestic and re-domesticated Africanized bees combine high resilience to tropical conditions and good yields.

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Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as " killer bees ," are some hybrid varieties of the Western honey bee species, ( Apis mellifera ), produced originally by cross-breeding of the African honey bee A. m. scutellata, with various European honey bees such as the Italian bee A. m. ligustica and the Iberian bee A. m. iberiensis.

Small swarms of Africanized bees are capable of taking over European honey bee hives by invading the hive and establishing their own queen after killing the European queen.

The Africanized honey bees in the Western Hemisphere are of mixed descent from 26 Tanganyikan queen bees of A. m. scutellata, accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 near Rio Claro, São Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil, from hives operated by biologist Warwick E. Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

Map showing the spread of Africanized honey bees in the United States from 1990 to 2003

However, discoveries of the Africanized bees in southern Louisiana indicate this subspecies has penetrated this barrier, In October 2010, a 73-year-old man was killed by a swarm of Africanized honey bees while clearing brush on his south Georgia property, as determined by Georgia's Department of Agriculture.

Thus Africanized bees are expected to be a hazard mostly in the Southern States of the United States, reaching as far north as the Chesapeake Bay in the east.

Africanized bees have slightly shorter wings, which can be reliably recognized only by performing a statistical analysis on micro-measurements of a substantial sample.

Population genetics analysis of Africanized honey bees in the United States, using a materially inherited genetic marker, found 12 distinct mitotypes, and the amount of genetic variation observed supports the idea that there have been multiple introductions of AHB into the United States.

What makes Africanized honey bees more dangerous is that they are more easily provoked, quick to swarm, attack in greater numbers, and pursue their victims for greater distances.

* Africanized bee, a hybrid of the African honey bee with various European honey bees

Colonies of honey bees often escape into the wild from managed apiaries when they swarm ; their behavior, however, is no different from their behavior " in captivity ", until and unless they breed with other feral honey bees of a different genetic stock, which may lead them to become more docile or more aggressive ( see Africanized bees ).

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Lineages of known hybrid origin, such as Africanized bees and Buckfast bees, also do not have formal names.

: Africanization can also refer to Africanized " killer " bees.

As the Africanized honeybee migrates further north, colonies are interbreeding with European honeybees.

Several researchers and beekeepers describe a general trait of the African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata, classified by Lepeletier, 1836-( African honey bee ) Central and West Africa, which is absconding, where the Africanized honeybee colonies abscond the hive in times when food-stores are low, unlike the European colonies which tend to die in the hive.

Africanized bees are notable for their propensity to swarm or abscond.

The lexicon covers various African languages, as well as words from many other sources " so Africanized that they do not appear foreign ", although no specific etymologies are indicated by the author.

These bees are endangered due to massive deforestation, altered agricultural practices ( especially insecticides ), and changing beekeeping practices with the arrival of the Africanized honey bee, which produces much greater honey crops.

Furthermore, there are flora that the Africanized honey bees do not visit, such as those in the tomato family, and several forest trees and shrubs, which rely on the native stingless bees for pollination.

Molecular diagnostics using the mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) cytochrome b gene can differentiate A. m. scutellata from other A. mellifera lineages, though mtDNA only allows one to detect an Africanized colony that has an Africanized queen, and not colonies where a European queen has mated with Africanized drones.

The Buckfast bee of today also contains heritage from two African rare and docile African stocks A. m. sahariensis and the A. m. monticola, but not the " Africanized " A. m.

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* The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil.

As of 2002, the Africanized honeybees had spread from Brazil south to northern Argentina and north to Central America, Trinidad ( West Indies ), Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, and southern California.

The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees ( A. m. scutellata ) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 near Uberlândia, Minas Gerais State in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

The island of Fernando Pó had its name Africanized after him to Masie Ngueme Biyogo Island ; upon his overthrow in 1979, its name was again changed to Bioko.

The sting of the Africanized Honey Bee is no more potent than another variety of honey bee, and they have a similar appearance.

For example, feral honey bee populations in the US have dropped about 90 % in the past 50 years, except for the Southwest where they have been replaced by Africanized bees.

The number of active Melipona beekeepers is rapidly declining in favor of the more economical, non-indigenous Africanized Apis mellifera.

Buckfast bees in cooler regions where Africanized bees have not arrived do not have this problem.

He Africanized his name to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong in 1976 after demanding that the rest of the Equatoguinean population do the same.

There are nearly 20, 000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher.

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People have been known to become ill from eating honey made by bees feeding on rhododendron and azalea flowers.

Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the approximately 20, 000 known species of bees.

Escaped swarms ( known as " wild " bees, but actually feral ) spread rapidly as far as the Great Plains, usually preceding the colonists.

Worker bees cooperate to find food and use a pattern of " dancing " ( known as the bee dance or waggle dance ) to communicate information regarding resources with each other ; this dance varies from species to species, but all living species of Apis exhibit some form of the behavior.

Colonies are established not by solitary queens, as in most bees, but by groups known as " swarms ", which consist of a mated queen and a large contingent of worker bees.

This phenomenon is also used to kill a queen perceived as intruding or defective, an action known to beekeepers as balling the queen, named for the ball of bees formed.

Honey bees are known to communicate through many different chemicals and odours, as is common in insects, but also using specific behaviours that convey information about the quality and type of resources in the environment, and where these resources are located.

* The first known reference to sugar cane appears in writings by Alexander the Great's admiral Nearchus, who writes of Indian reeds " that produce honey, although there are no bees ".

Both features help pollen grains adhere to their bodies, but they also have specialized pollen-carrying structures ; in most bees, this takes the form of a structure known as the scopa, which is on the hind legs of most bees, and / or the lower abdomen ( e. g., of megachilid bees ), made up of thick, plumose setae.

Honey bees, bumblebees, and their relatives do not have a scopa, but the hind leg is modified into a structure called the corbicula ( also known as the " pollen basket ").

The oldest published image known to have been made with a microscope: bees by Francesco Stelluti, 1630

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