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Killer Bees
Describes the origin, characteristics, behavior, and dangerous aspects of the hybrid honeybee which has been moving north from Brazil for nearly thirty years and has now entered Texas
60 pages, Library Binding
First published October 1, 1993
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Kathleen Davis
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April 22, 2014
This 20 year old book describes the lives of the dreaded "Africanized Killer Honey Bee."
African bees were accidentally introduced into the Brazilian wild in 1956. They mated with European bees, and the hybird, or "Africanized" bee spread across Southe and Central America. The first Africanized bee was found in the United States in October, 1990.
I loved watching all those 1990's films about Killer Bees, Deadly Bees, The Swarm, etc. They were mainly hokum and not very realistic. But Killer Bees are honey bees with an attitude and a temper.
When this little book was written in 1933, the range of the Killer Bee in the U.S. was just in southern Texas, but the projected range was all of the South, and all along the West Coast into Washington. So maybe the Killer Bees made it up into my Oregon, but I have not heard much about the Africanized Bee in the U.S. in the past 10 years. Maybe they are dying off just as the regular honey bees are dying off.
African bees were accidentally introduced into the Brazilian wild in 1956. They mated with European bees, and the hybird, or "Africanized" bee spread across Southe and Central America. The first Africanized bee was found in the United States in October, 1990.
I loved watching all those 1990's films about Killer Bees, Deadly Bees, The Swarm, etc. They were mainly hokum and not very realistic. But Killer Bees are honey bees with an attitude and a temper.
When this little book was written in 1933, the range of the Killer Bee in the U.S. was just in southern Texas, but the projected range was all of the South, and all along the West Coast into Washington. So maybe the Killer Bees made it up into my Oregon, but I have not heard much about the Africanized Bee in the U.S. in the past 10 years. Maybe they are dying off just as the regular honey bees are dying off.
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