Greg Hunt, a bee specialist with the Purdue University Department of Entomology and principal investigator on the research project, says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand ...

Here's what to watch out for if an incident like this happens again. Why are there so many bees in Arizona? Africanized honeybees make up nearly 100% of Arizona's wild bee population, according 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 ...

Africanized honey bees first appeared in south Texas in 1990, and quickly spread to other parts of the Southwest United States. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Kerr leaves behind a complicated legacy, on the one hand maligned for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees in the Americas and on the other revered in his homeland as a humanitarian. “It’s ...

The honey bees in the Americas constitute populations resulting from subspecies hybridization. Populations of Africanized bees from South America are morphometrically quite distinct from populations ...

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 ...