Text and accompanying photographs describe the origin, characteristics, behavior, and dangerous aspects of the hybrid honeybee which has been moving North from Brazil for nearly thirty years and has now entered Texas.
This book describes the challenges that Africanized honey bees pose in South America and North America and what has been done to monitor the movements of Africanized bees and attempt to stop their invasion of new territory.
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny decide to investigate when they travel with their grandfather to buy honey at the Sherman's honey farm only to discover that the bees, for some reason, have quit making honey.
Honeybee and Horsefly have a fight that results in each of them losing a wing and being forced to walk, but when they are both captured by hungry Bullfrog their only hope of escape is to work together.
