Page of the University of California-Davis and Ernesto Guzman-Novoa of Mexico's agricultural research service located the mean gene by measuring the speed and intensity of stinging behavior in 162 ...

Additionally, F1 progeny of Africanized and European honey bees provide further evidence of the hybrid nature of Africanized bees. It is clear that Africanized bees in the Americas constitute a ...

Our conversation with the beekeeper is a veritable lesson not only on the world of bees, honey and pollination, but also on the geography of his South ...

The ambitious scientist aimed to isolate traits of each species and breed them into a new subspecies, combining the European bees' greater honey yields with the African honeybees' adaptation to warmer ...

These bees are a hybrid between African and European honeybees, which were crossbred to produce mild-mannered, productive bees. Africanized bees received the nickname "killer bees" because of ...