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The African bee has the reputation of being more aggressive, and more deadly, than any other bee in the world. But farmers there know that the honey the bees produce is worth a million stings.

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Mar., 1992), pp. 51-59 (9 pages) African honeybees, imported to South America thirty-four years ago, have spread throughout most of the neotropics and have ...

Heads up, Florida. Along with alligators, Burmese pythons and Asian needle ants, now killer bees are spreading across the state — and the country — as average temperatures rise. Africanized honey bees ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...

The honey bearers arrived in the early 17th century, carried into the United States by early European settlers. Apis mellifera, a name that truly translates as "bee honey-bearer" — though they are ...

Port Elizabeth, South Africa — A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said on ...

Tlou Masehela previously received funding from The National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Working for Water Programme. He is affiliated with with the Western Cape Bee Industry Association (WCBA) ...

Port Elizabeth, South Africa — A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said on ...

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Africanized bees, known as “killer bees,” once gained notoriety in the United States for swarming and killing. But while Africa’s bees tend to be more aggressive than their European or American ...

Dozens of rare penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in South Africa, in what conservation experts have described as a freak accident. More than 60 African penguins were found dead on Boulders ...