says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand what makes Africanized bees so aggressive." Hunt and colleagues Robert E. Page of the University of California-Davis and Ernesto Guzman ...

Africanised bees are notorious in the Americas for their aggressive behaviour, but these fierce little pollinators may be the answer to declining honeybee numbers. Their demeanour has earned them the ...

one bee species stands out as the most dangerous species of bee: the Africanized killer bee. Read more: 13 Creatures To ...

Africanized honeybees are not known to be in Hawaii and residents can help prevent them from becoming established by reporting unusually aggressive bees to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture’s ...

- a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas ...