says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand what makes Africanized bees so aggressive." Hunt and colleagues Robert E. Page of the University of California-Davis and Ernesto Guzman ...

Their demeanour has earned them the terrifying nickname of 'killer bees', but relatively few deaths are caused in proportion to the number of colonies. Known only in North, Central and South America, ...

Today, honeybees in Hawaii are some of the world’s highest honey producers. The lack of Africanized bees and overall health of Hawaii-raised honeybees have led to a $10 million per year queen ...

Such techniques have been used to analyze the honey-bee populations of the Americas. The honey bees in the Americas constitute populations resulting from subspecies hybridization. Populations of ...

The team became interested in the Africanised honey bee – also known as the killer bee - during a visit to University of Namibia for a joint sustainable environmental development project.