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.

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These, along with the Africanized honeybee and pesticide kills were all important beekeeping issues.

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.

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.

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.

Africanized bees ( known colloquially as " killer bees ") are hybrids between European stock and one of the African subspecies A. m. scutellata ; they are often more aggressive than and do not create as much of a surplus as European bees, but are more resistant to disease and are better foragers.

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.

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 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.

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

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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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* Africanized bee-a hybrid bee with characteristics unsuitable for beekeeping

Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly " Africanized " approach to music making.

* The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil.

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

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.

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

In the natural world, synergistic phenomena are ubiquitous, ranging from physics ( for example, the different combinations of quarks that produce protons and neutrons ) to chemistry ( a popular example is water, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen ), to the cooperative interactions among the genes in genomes, the division of labor in bacterial colonies, the synergies of scale in multi-cellular organisms, as well as the many different kinds of synergies produced by socially-organized groups, from honeybee colonies to wolf packs and human societies.

Natural beehives are naturally occurring structures occupied by honeybee colonies, while domesticated honeybees live in man-made beehives, often in an apiary.

In North America, during the winter and spring of 2006 – 2007, was a considerable decline in commercially managed honeybee colonies, with losses of about one third of honeybees population.

They feed on termites, honeybee colonies and fruits.

Skunks are one of the primary predators of the honeybee, relying on their thick fur to protect them from stings.

The original name of the Mormon settlement, Deseret, is said to be the word for " honeybee " in the Book of Mormon ; a beehive appears on the Utah state flag ; the state motto is " Industry " ( for which bees are known ); and Utah is widely known as the " Beehive State.

references the rock painting which shows two naked humans carrying baskets or bags that are employing a long wobbly ladder, which appears to be made out of some kind of grass, to reach a wild honeybee nest to harvest honey.

Some belong to Apis mellifera intermissa but others are having an indeterminate origin ; the Egyptian honeybee ( Apis mellifera lamarckii ), present in small numbers in the southeastern United States, has the same morphology.

Examples are Varroa destructor, which attaches to the body of the honeybee, and Acarapis woodi ( family Tarsonemidae ), which lives in the tracheae of honey bees.

The Rif mountains are also home to the honeybee Apis mellifera major.

* Size: The bodies are smaller and their overhairs shorter than those of the darker honeybee races

However, they are known to eradicate domestic honeybee hives, resulting in fewer honeybees for open pollination.

The flowers are also valued for honeybee forage, producing abundant nectar.

This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee.

It was nominated in 1990 as the national insect of the United States of America, along with the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ), but the legislation did not pass.

This makes it easy to confuse with other diseases of the honeybee.

Among the races of the Western honeybee the Italian bee has been identified with an especially strong tendency to rob.

European hornet with prey ( a honeybee )

The word deseret, mentioned in connection with the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon, is purported to mean honeybee.

This together with A. florea is the most plesiomorphic honeybee species alive.