africanized honeybee

Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the Africanized honeybee, sometimes referred to as the killer bee.

Illustrated photographs describe the movement of killer bee populations into North America, their behaviors and characteristics.

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.

Describes the origin, behavior, and dangers of the aggressive African bees which are moving north from South America toward the United States.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of Africanized bees and discusses how they came to Brazil, how they have now spread northward as far as the United States, and their potentially disruptive influence on the native honeybee population, crop yields, and the honey and beeswax industry.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of Africanized bees and discusses how they came to Brazil, how they are spreading northward, and their potentially disruptive influence on the native honeybee population which in turn could damage crop yields and the honey and beeswax industry.

Provides information about killer bees, explaining the similarities and differences between European and Africanized honeybees, discussing the spread of the Africanized, or killer bees, from Brazil to North America, and examining efforts to control killer bee populations.

Text and photographs provide information about killer bees.

Explores life inside the bees' nests, their volatile nature, what effects they have had on their new environment, and how adaptation to their native African climate has so well suited them to survival in the Americas.