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	Insecta Inspecta World - Killer Bees
		The bee is aggressive, easily agitated, and generally a bee with a bad attitude.
		The Africanized bee is expected to spread across the southern part of the country, where the winters aren't so harsh.
		The Africanized bee is a dangerous hybrid, passing down the trait of defensiveness to each offspring.
	www.insecta-inspecta.com /bees/killer/index.html (1056 words)

	Africanized bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus Africanized bees are expected to be a hazard mostly in the Southern States of the United States.
		In Mexico, where Africanized bees are well established, pollination beekeepers have found that a purchased and pre-bred non-Africanized queen may be used to locally create a first generation of virgin queens that are then bred in an uncontrolled fashion with the local wild Africanized drones.
		African bees are also much more migratory and can move the colony to an entirely new location in pursuit of good foraging (leaving behind their combs at the old location, which may be reoccupied by other swarms in the appropriate season).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africanized_bee (2372 words)

	Killer bees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Killer bees, firms or individuals employed by a target company to fend off a takeover bid.
		Killer Bees, the colletive nickname for the large group of key players with last names starting in 'B' in the Houston Astros roster.
		Killer Bees, the collective nickname for the large number of starters with last names starting in 'B' on the Miami Dolphins' defense in the early 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Killer_bees (188 words)

	The killer bees are coming
		They are nicknamed "killer" bees not because any one sting is worse than the European kind, but rather because so many of the bees try to sting you.
		The reason killer bees remind me of the "law of unintended consequences" is that their invasion of this continent is the direct result of researchers stumbling over the unexpected.
		Killer bees were brought from Africa to Brazil 43 years ago by a prominent Brazilian scientist, Warwick Estevam Kerr.
	www.txtwriter.com /Onscience/Articles/killerbees.html (836 words)

	Killer Bees Mean Gene
		West Lafayette, IND (3/30/98)- The discovery of a "mean gene" in Africanized honey bees could provide the basis for reducing the diaspora of these 'killer' bees, now buzzing their way into California.
		Controlling the spread of the aggresive bees from South America is critical for the survival of U.S. agriculture, not to mention honey producers.
		Virtually all honey bees are raised by beekeepers who buy their queen bees each spring from large breeders in the southern states near the regions where Africanized honey bees have invaded.
	www.accessexcellence.org /WN/SUA12/bee498.html (852 words)

	CNN.com - 'Killer' bees make killer coffee - June 14, 2002
		African honeybees, often dubbed killer bees, were introduced to southern Brazil in 1956 in an effort to create a better honeybee.
		When insects like "killer" bees do the pollen transportation of coffee, the result is a bigger and better bean, say scientists.
		Killer bee expert Roubik says most people are not aware of all the positive things bees are doing for crops and plants.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/science/06/14/coolsc.coffee (827 words)

	Cover Story: Attack Of The Killer Bees! (December 19 - December 25, 1996)
		KILLER BEES," KNOWN in scientific parlance as Apis mellifera scutellata, are a variety of honeybee first domesticated in the scrub desert of central South Africa.
		Thus the myth of the killer bee was born.
		New to the region, the Africanized bees have not suffered the same effects, and the relative weakness of long-adapted bee species--which are also suffering from viruses and a particularly ferocious infestation of mites--has opened up a whole new ecological niche for the recent arrivals to exploit.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/12-19-96/cover.htm (2452 words)

	The Purcell Register
		Roy Don Hanan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture and county extension director, said the Africanized honey bee was confirmed to be in the county on Monday.
		Be on the lookout for honey bee swarms and colonies.
		Bees are generally very docile as they go about their normal activities.
	www.purcellregister.com /article-display.asp?idnum=1980 (560 words)

	Killer Bees - Africanized Honey Bees (DesertUSA)
		Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) -- also called Africanized bees or killer bees -- are descendants of southern African bees imported in 1956 by Brazilian scientists attempting to breed a honey bee better adapted to the South American tropics.
		Africanized bees proliferate because they are less discriminating in their choice of nests than native bees, utilizing a variety of natural and man-made objects, including hollow trees, walls, porches, sheds, attics, utility boxes, garbage containers and abandoned vehicles.
		Bees target the head, and nearly all those who suffer serious stinging incidents with Africanized Bees are overcome by stings to the head and face.
	www.desertusa.com /mag98/sep/stories/kbees.html (3494 words)

	CNN - Killer bees hit L.A. - January 14, 1999
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Killer bees have come to Los Angeles, the first major metropolitan area in the United States to be officially declared colonized by the potentially deadly insects.
		Five people are known to have died from killer bee stings nationwide since 1990, the last in April 1997 when a 72-year- old man was attacked at his mobile home in Casa Grande, Arizona.
		Bee Alert - learn all about killer bees and what to do when they attack.
	www.cnn.com /US/9901/14/killer.bees (520 words)

	Killer Bee: pictures, information, classification and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		African honey bee queens were imported by Brazilian scientists in the 1950s in order to breed a honey bee for use in tropical climates.
		The bees reached an apparent climatic limit to their southern range in the middle of Argentina, and their range is expected to be similarly limited to the southern and coastal states in the United States.
		Africanized honey bees are not expected to have the same impact in the United States because of advanced beekeeping technology and climatic limitations on the spread of the species.
	www.everythingabout.net /articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/killer_bee (402 words)

	Deadly Insects: Killer Bees and Termites Wreak Havoc
		Killer bees have killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Americas.
		Perhaps the most feared and sensational of all foreign imports is the Africanized honeybee, better known as the 'killer' bee.
		Brazilian scientists brought aggressive African bees to Brazil in 1956 in an effort to breed a better honeybee.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/killerbee2.html (606 words)

	Honey bee trap, kill bees with bee trap
		Africanized "killer" bees looks so much like a regular honeybee that the only way to tell the two apart is by measuring their bodies.
		The bees were so aggressive, a witness said, they covered the woman's face, got into her mouth, hair and ears, and some went along in the ambulance to the emergency room.
		Male carpenter bees tend to be territorial and often become aggressive when humans approach, sometimes hovering a short distance in front of the face or buzzing one's head.
	www.critterridders.com /bees.htm (2787 words)

	Bees
		Bees are beneficial insects because they produce honey and pollinate crops.
		The main difference is that bees provide their young with pollen and honey, while wasps eat animal food, insects, or spiders.
		Explore the history page to find out about the earliest bees, visit the life cycle page, find out about killer bees, learn about the different types of bees, and find out how bees are involved with pollination.
	www.42explore.com /bees.htm (1928 words)

	Killer Bees
		The Africanized Honey Bee is a hybrid of one of the several European Honey Bee subspecies (Apis mellifera mellifera, A.m.carnica, A.m.caucasia, or A.m.linguica) and the African Honey Bee (Apis mellifera scutellata).
		Honey bees are not native to the Western Hemisphere.
		Although Africanized bees are subject to the same diseases and mites that European bees are, Africanized bees have different biological processes and behaviors that affect the importance and visibility of the diseases and mites.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Apis_mellifera_scutellata.htm (2270 words)

	All about "killer bees"
		Africanized bees are just defending their hives, nothing more, whereas the media will sometimes use more colorful and active terminology to describe their behavior suggesting that they are “out to get us,” for example.
		The Africanized bee is more defensive, it’s true, but people are changing and adapting to this behavior because beekeeping is still a way of putting food on the table and paying their kids’ tuition.
		At higher elevations in South and Central America, the bee is less defensive and not as dominating as you move from tropical and subtropical to temperate climatic regions.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/01-02/beeqa062602.html (1207 words)

	Why Are Killer Bees So Slow? - Aren't they supposed to be here already? By Brendan I. Koerner
		The dreaded Africanized honey bee—better known as the "killer bee"—may be buzzing slightly northward.
		The bees were imported because European honey bees, which are common in the United States, were not well-suited to Brazil's more tropical climate; the Brazilian government wanted to create a European-African hybrid that could produce more honey.
		Africanized bee experts stress that although the insects are indeed dangerous when provoked, they're nowhere near the menace portrayed in several sensationalistic TV movies, such as 1974's Killer Bees and 1995's Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare.
	www.slate.com /id/2105698 (676 words)

	Aggressive African Bees Here To Stay, Keepers Fear: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The so-called ``killer bees'' are in Florida, and there's no way to eliminate them or prevent more from entering the state.
		Although state officials cringe at the term killer bees, the African bees are highly aggressive and quickly swarm from hives by the thousands if they feel threatened.
		On Friday, Louisiana agriculture officials confirmed that a swarm of bees trapped in the state is of the Africanized variety.
	www.tampatrib.com /MGB1MTU5UBE.html (1495 words)

	Recent Killer Bee News Reported In The Media
		Smith said that the bees were first detected in the deep-water ports of Florida in 2002, and have since spread throughout the state, detected in several northern Florida counties in 2004 and 2005, according to Smith.
		Bee behavior Known for their aggression and fierce, unwavering defense of their colonies, the killer bee poses a unique challenge for both public officials working to prepare the public, and local police and firefighters who will have to deal with any killer bee attacks.
		Africanized bees look like other honeybees, but they are more vehement than their cousins in defending their hives, which they like to build in buckets, cans, empty boxes, holes in fences and water meters in the ground.
	www.stingshield.com /news.htm (7274 words)

	Killer Bees San Luis Obispo
		In the area that I lived, we used the Killer, or "scuts" for pollination, at that was the native bee to the Northern Cape where I worked.
		I have personally had bees in Santa Maria in the late 1980's that were much more aggressive than some of the hives I had in Africa.
		Long time beekeepers know that the first generation cross between types of bees are often aggressive, and since this type of DNA can only tell the female ancestry of the bees, the tests could, and often do, come back negative.
	webpages.charter.net /tvaughan/ahb.html (614 words)

	Aviva Trivia Blog » Cool Facts About Killer Bees
		Killer bees, or Africanized bees, are aggressive insects that have been known to chase a person or an animal up to a quarter of a mile. The following facts demonstrate the fierce quality of these bees that continue to move ever northward and to both fascinate and alarm people.
		Scientists do not believe that killer bees are simply “mean;” they are more sensitive and more prone to defend their hives; they feel threatened quite easily.
		If you live in areas where killer bees are known to live, avoid low-hanging branches. Be careful of holes in the ground; killer bees also build nests in such holes.
	www.avivadirectory.com /trivia/75-cool-facts-about-killer-bees (692 words)

	Killer Bees
		The most common stinging bee in California is the honey bee, introduced into this country from Europe in the 17th century.
		Killer bees are dangerous despite the new name, They will attack anything moving within 100 yards of their nest without provocation, and will chase a running target much farther than less excitable varieties of bees.
		Africanized bee nests are easily provoked into stinging attacks involving large numbers of bees.
	williethebeeman.com /id127.html (1369 words)

	The Monitor : Killer Bees Hockey
		HIDALGO — Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees coach Paul Fixter says a typical hockey player is “200 pounds of dynamite with a two-inch fuse.” After practice Tuesday, two fuses were lit....
		The Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees acquired the rights of center Travis Banga from the Memphis RiverKings on Friday in exchange for the rights to left wing Matt Reynolds and defenseman Ryan Carrigan....
		Bees overcome adversity, but not Laredo in 2006-07
	www.themonitor.com /sections/killerbees (352 words)

	Killer Bees game - KidExplorers.com
		In fact, bees are one of the major insect groups responsible for pollination of rainforest trees.
		So called "killer bees" are a type of southern African honeybee that mated with wild bees in the forests of Brazil (becoming Africanized Honey Bees.
		The first "migrating swarm of Africanized bees was detected in the US on October 15, 1990" in Hidalgo, Texas.
	www.christiananswers.net /kids/killerbees/home.html (207 words)

	Africanized honey bees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While European honey bee swarms might disperse only a few miles and then look for an ideal place to establish themselves, swarms of Africanized honey bees can move 60 miles or more at a time and build their nests in a variety of locations.
		During the second week of August, 2004, two samples of honey bees from Tillman County were sent to the Plant Disease and Insect Diagnostic laboratory for testing.
		Remember that honey bees sting to defend their colony, so be on the look out for honey bee swarms and colonies.
	www.ento.okstate.edu /ahb (1609 words)

	Philips/Odyssey Bob Harris And The Secret Of The Killer Bees
		The player's swarm of bees is prevented from ever dying, this means that the enemy swarms cannot harm it.
		Killer Bees must have been one of the very first video games with cheat codes, especially on the Odyssey2 and Philips G7000, where these things didn't exist at all!
		Killer Bees for certain, and some others but I don't recall what games we were preparing for both O2 and O3.
	www.dieterkoenig.at /ccc/po/s_po_killerbeese.htm (4230 words)

	Killer Bees CD
		The music on the record ranges from the soulful, uplifting 'Nevermind' and 'Communion' - tracks on which Herbie Hancock spirits achingly beautiful piano playing out of the ether - to tracks like 'Killer Bees' and 'Nasty Moves' which show that rock music doesn't have a monopoly over power and aggression.
		Chick Corea's masterful electric and acoustic keyboards playing and Stanley Clarke's upright bass playing, his first for many years, help make 'Killer Bees' a milestone in modern jazz and a must for fans of true freeform composition.
		Like a fusion of the best moments of Return to Forever, Weather Report and Miles Davis circa 'Bitches Brew', (ex-bands of collaborators here), 'Killer Bees' shows that jazz in the nineties can still delight, surprise and lead by example.
	www.airto.com /airtooldsite/merchandise/cdbee.htm (389 words)

	Killer Bees
		Known as the "Killer Bee," the Africanized honey bee (AHB) is a subspecies of the common European honey bee (Apis mellifera).
		The feistiness of this bee has its origin in millions of years of intense predation in Africa by such adversaries as ants, honey badgers and humans.
		Larger cells are constructed by the worker bees to accommodate the male drones which develop from unfertilized eggs.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0304.htm (586 words)

	Killer Bees! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Individual bees are not the problem; hives are a problem.
		These bees only attack when they've established a hive and you disturb their home.
		Africanized bees escaped from a Brazilin agriculture research station in 1957 and began breeding with more docile European honey bees.
	www.pestweb.com /stanley/bee.html (214 words)

	In Search of.....: Killer Bees - TV.com
		In this episode, the advance of Killer Bees, originally imported to South America from Africa, and their march northward into Central America, Mexico, and their eventual expected entry into the United States is investigated.
		The deadly threat they pose to humans and animals when disturbed, their interbreeding with domestic bees, and their possible impact on the U.S. if their advance is not stopped before they reach America.
		This is one of the episodes that is a bit dated since killer bees have now invaded the United States and have been responsible for the deaths of several humans and animals.
	www.tv.com /in-search-of...../killer-bees/episode/247481/summary.html (156 words)

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