Africanized bee
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The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee, produced originally by crossbreeding of the African honey bee w
Swarm of Africanized honey bees
Hive on Gila River Indian Community land in Arizona
Gathering pollen, Engelmann's prickly pear, Mojave Desert
Compare A. m. scutellata
Queen bee
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A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees
Africanized bee
…Africanized honey bees could take over weakened European honey bee hives by invading the hive, then killing the European queen and establishing their own queen. There are now relatively stable geographic zones in which either Africanized honey bees dominate, a mix of Africanized and European honey bees is…
Queen (marked) surrounded by Africanized workers
Older queen larvae in queen cell lying on top of wax comb
A queen cup
Queen larvae floating on royal jelly in opened queen cups laid on top of wax comb