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 ...

often referred to as simply "killer bees," is a hybrid of the Western honey bee resulting from the mating of southern African ...

scutellata) in an effort to improve honey production in Brazil ... Despite their name, a single killer bee is no deadlier than any other honeybee subspecies. They are in fact smaller than other ...

The team became interested in the Africanised honey bee – also known as the killer bee - during a visit to University of Namibia for a joint sustainable environmental development project.

Today, honeybees in Hawaii are some of the world’s highest honey producers. The lack of Africanized bees and overall health of Hawaii-raised honeybees have led to a $10 million per year queen ...