African bees do not intentionally try to hurt people. They are defensive, and attack when they think their hive is being threatened. A single African bee sting is no more dangerous than a single ...

Africanized honeybees are now found in 13 states and are slowly spreading north, attacking people, livestock and pets along the way.

Bees are studied at the African Reference Laboratory for Bee Health in Nairobi, Kenya. Wendy Kirorai/CNN. Positive signs Around 70% of what the world consumes is dependent on bees for pollination.

How African honey bees can help mitigate a world crisis By Vincent Dietemann. 4 minute read Updated 11:20 AM EST, Fri December 18, 2015 Link Copied! Honeybee populations are ...

A swarm of Africanized bees, often referred to as "killer bees," was discovered this summer in Barbour County, Alabama, ...

Mitochondrial DNA testing later proved that the bees were not, in fact, Africanized, but the event pushed the concept of these bees, sometimes known as “killer bees,” into the news. Africanized bees ...

Africanized bees were first discovered in Texas in 1990, ... Many of the African bees escaped the following year and quickly blazed a path south to Argentina and north to Central America and Mexico.

They first occurred in 1956, when a prominent Brazilian geneticist, Warwick Kerr, brought African bees to Brazil to hybridize them with Western honey bees from Europe, which didn't do well there.

How African honey bees can help mitigate a world crisis By Vincent Dietemann. 4 minute read Updated 11:20 AM EST, Fri December 18, 2015 Link Copied! Honeybee populations are ...