The Africanized honey bee varieties produced a reversion of behaviour similar to non-domesticated species.

Africanized honey bees are more defensive than European honey bees.

The African queens eventually mated with local drones and produced what are now known as Africanized honey bees on the American continent.

The U.S. state of Florida destroyed the hives of Africanized honey bees in 1999.

There has already been a decline in populations of native flora in areas where stingless bees have been displaced by Africanized honey bees.

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.

On September 11, 2007, Commissioner Bob Odom of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry said that Africanized honey bees established themselves in the New Orleans area.

Republican group devises arts plan There is no talk of killer bees yet in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, where a swarm of Africanized honey bees arrived last week.

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.

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.

There is also the accidental release of the Africanized honey bees (AHB), known colloquially as "killer bees" or Africanized bee to Brazil in 1957 and the Asian carps to the United States.

This spring, the last corner of Los Angeles County's 4,000 square miles was declared officially colonized by Africanized honey bees, when a swarm was found lurking under the eves of a building in the desolate desert suburb of Palmdale.

Beyond the rationale, there is well-documented empirical evidence of communication related to tasks; examples include the waggle dance of honey bee foragers, trail marking by ant foragers, and the propagation via pheromones of an alarm state in Africanized honey bees.

Bees Arrive by Sea The first colonies of Africanized honey bees - the so-called killer bees, though "killer" is something of a misnomer - have been found east of the Mississippi River, and they have come not by land, but by sea.

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.

One source said that the team might keep the killer bees name.

That behavior has brought them the nickname killer bees.

He makes a gesture with his hands, and sends the killer bees back down into Manhattan.

Nevertheless, the researchers added, the term killer bees may be "inappropriate."

Since everything, from weather to elections to killer bees, affects investing, this was easy.

The killer bees got less accomplished than you'd expect.

Recent hysteria regarding killer bees has contributed to these views.

The Killer Bees have been involved in the following transactions during the 2010-11 season.

Because of this, some people call them 'killer bees'.

Sure, the Killer Bees were hilarious the first time around, but enough already.

Each of the companions was under attack by at least ten of the killer bees.

You mean the 18th generation of hybrid killer bees when they come for you in your sleep?

The chicken persisted: "They were behind the killer bees."

Coping with life's nasty surprises, from quicksand to killer bees.

The friends were ready again to take on anything that movedother than swarms of killer bees.

They're good at that, certainly but they aren't uncontrolled or hair-trigger, like killer bees.

I don't know the cause, but they retire to the Sunshine State and turn into killer bees.

Having a killer bee stuck in each ear.

So-called "killer bees" swarm far more often than regular honeybees.

But our little killer bees can destroy bullets and shells before they can hit anything.

What have killer bees to do with?

The blackberries, if little else in the last quarter of the twentieth century except killer bees and Arabs, were on the move.

But what happened to the killer bees?

The Quigs here are killer bees that glow yellow.

Of course Dr. Rinderer does not actually call them killer bees.