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The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).
This subspecies has been determined to constitute one part of the ancestry of the Africanized bees (also known as "killer bees") spreading through North and South America. [2] The introduction of the Cape honey bee into northern South Africa poses a threat to East African lowland honey bees. If a female worker from a Cape honey bee colony ...
The East African lowland queens' virgin daughters mated with local European honey bee drones and produced what is now known as the Africanized honey bee in South and North America. The intense struggle for survival of western honey bees in Sub-Saharan Africa is given as the reason that this subspecies is proactive in defending the hive and also ...
Sources may claim that honey bees (Apis mellifera) have become an invasive species in the United States, outcompeting native pollinators for food. [92] However, while the USDA lists Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata) as an invasive species, it does not classify western honey bees as invasive. [93]
Nests can hold up to an average of 6,000 workers, the Georgia Department of Agriculture says.
Aplexa marmorata (marbled tadpole snail) ; Bradybaena similaris (Asian trampsnail) [11]; Cochlicella barbara (potbellied helicellid) [11]; Cornu aspersum (garden snail); Deroceras invadens (tramp slug)
Vespa velutina, an invasive species from Southeast Asia that first showed up in Europe in 2004, is a general predator, but it targets honey bees. Vespa velutina, an invasive species from Southeast ...
The honey bee killer the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) has now been found a second time in South Carolina.. The hornet was caught in a baited trap on March 14 in Jasper County, about three ...