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High Country News
March 29, 2018
Twenty-six queens escaped from a research project there, and the bees flew north, interbreeding with more docile resident honeybees. But they retained much of their frighteningly defensive behavior. Tales of carnage the “Africanized” killer bees left in their wake were numerous and terrifying. OccasionallyÃÂ ...
Hawaiimagazine.com
March 28, 2018
Hawaii bees are also in demand because the Islands don't have the more aggressive Africanized bees; Hawaii's queen bee producers export the gentler Italian and Carniolan bees. “As Africanized bees continue to spread and migrate in the mainland, there might also be higher demands for EuropeanÃÂ ...
St George News
March 28, 2018
While there have been cases of by Africanized bee attacks in Washington County, Lofthouse said, he didn't believes the feral bees he removed were among them. If they had been, they would have been much more aggressive. The only way to tell for certain if a there has been an attack by Africanized beesÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
March 21, 2018
But European honeybees began hybridizing with African bees in the 1990s. It is estimated that 100 percent of the wild bee colonies in Arizona are Africanized, according to the university. The university warns people should assume all wild honeybees are Africanized for safety. Africanized honeybeesÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
March 19, 2018
PHOENIX - It's not even spring yet, and killer bees are already swarming in the Valley. One local beekeeper says it's only going to intensify as temperatures heat up and he warns people against home remedies or trying to remove swarms themselves. "There's going to be a huge surge of Africanized honeyÃÂ ...
The Drive
March 18, 2018
Legendary American race car driver A.J. Foyt couldn't fulfill his role as Grand Marshall at this weekend's 12 Hours of Sebring after being viciously attacked by Africanized Killer Bees while working on his ranch in Texas on Wednesday afternoon. This week's incident wasn't Foyt's first encounter with theÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
March 17, 2018
If you notice lots of bees flying around your seldom-used backyard grill and you're tempted to investigate, be careful. If you hear a buzzing sound coming from inside your grill, just stop. That grill may have become a nest for Africanized honey bees – also called killer bees – and if you lift that lid to see what'sÃÂ ...
Green Valley News
March 5, 2018
Bees in Southern Arizona can be dangerous. Most of our wild honey bees – 99 percent – are considered to be Africanized honey bees. They look almost exactly like traditional European honey bees, but their behavior is much different. Their colonies are larger and much more aggressive in defending theirÃÂ ...
East Hampton Star
March 2, 2018
It's hard to win a game when you make 21 turnovers and shoot 30 percent from the floor, and so it was that Bridgehampton High School's Killer Bees lost to Greenport in the county playoffs' C-D game at Suffolk Community College-Selden on Feb. 20. And yet, despite the final 67-41 result, the Bees playedÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 1, 2018
The most lethal venomous animal encounter remained stings and subsequent anaphylaxis from bees, wasps, and hornets despite the availability of life-saving treatment for anaphylaxis. "Africanized" honey bees may be particularly lethal when they swarm and are increasingly common in the southern andÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
February 14, 2018
Bees have not had an easy time in recent years. Over the last decade, commercial beekeepers who produce honey and lease out hives to pollinate crops have struggled with widespread hive collapse that occurs after worker bees suddenly flee. It's still not precisely clear what triggered the collapse thatÃÂ ...
channel5belize
February 13, 2018
A Belize City family is enduring another sleepless night after a horrific episode this past weekend. Their three female watchdogs were mauled and stung to death when set upon by Africanized bees who came seemingly out of nowhere from behind their residence on Mex Avenue. And the dogs were not theÃÂ ...
Co.Design (blog)
February 12, 2018
Maybe I'm being pessimistic (not hard, given the internet of things' horrible security problems), but that vision seems as scary as the swarms of hackable rrobotic killer bees in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror episode Hated By The Nation. I actually asked Candy about the episode. His reply? “That episodeÃÂ ...
27east.com
February 6, 2018
It helped that Sports Illustrated included “Killer Bees” in its top sports documentaries of 2017 list, which only included six movies total, along with films such as “Icarus” and “What Carter Lost,” which is part of ESPN's award-winning 30 for 30 documentary series. Cummings said that Shaquille O'Neal,ÃÂ ...
Science Daily
November 20, 2017
A genomic study of Puerto Rico's Africanized honey bees -- which are more docile than other so-called "killer bees" -- reveals that they retain most of the genetic traits of their African honey bee ancestors, but that a few regions of their DNA have become more like those of European honey bees. According toÃÂ ...
Inverse
November 16, 2017
Through a series of events that seem more like the plot of a Marvel movie than real life, the world's only colony of gentle killer honey bees, a hybrid of African and European strains, turned the island of Puerto Rico into their home. It all started in 1958, when a group of ragtag African killer bees escaped fromÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
November 14, 2017
“I definitely wouldn't be doing this without a veil if they were Africanized,” said beekeeper Roy Arnold, as he held a honeycomb full of bees. Arnold says he's not only trying to change their nature, but their entire DNA. “They came from Brazil, through Mexico, and then into the United States in 1993,” saidÃÂ ...
Bowling Green Daily News
February 24, 2018
“It's great fun to help our public library,” said Phil Neal a member of the Bowling Green Noon Rotary Club's Killer Bees team. “Where else can you come out, have ... Rotarian Vickie Elrod, also a member of the Killer Bees, said one of the club's missions is to support youth education. “One of our projects isÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
February 14, 2018
Bees have not had an easy time in recent years. Over the last decade, commercial beekeepers who produce honey and lease out hives to pollinate crops have struggled with widespread hive collapse that occurs after worker bees suddenly flee. It's still not precisely clear what triggered the collapse thatÃÂ ...
channel5belize
February 13, 2018
A Belize City family is enduring another sleepless night after a horrific episode this past weekend. Their three female watchdogs were mauled and stung to death when set upon by Africanized bees who came seemingly out of nowhere from behind their residence on Mex Avenue. And the dogs were not theÃÂ ...
Co.Design (blog)
February 12, 2018
Maybe I'm being pessimistic (not hard, given the internet of things' horrible security problems), but that vision seems as scary as the swarms of hackable rrobotic killer bees in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror episode Hated By The Nation. I actually asked Candy about the episode. His reply? “That episodeÃÂ ...
27east.com
February 6, 2018
It helped that Sports Illustrated included “Killer Bees” in its top sports documentaries of 2017 list, which only included six movies total, along with films such as “Icarus” and “What Carter Lost,” which is part of ESPN's award-winning 30 for 30 documentary series. Cummings said that Shaquille O'Neal,ÃÂ ...
Brewbound.com
February 2, 2018
... WA, and astoundingly, more than 40 mouthwatering beer recipes to its name, including a range of hoppy beers and other styles such as ChChCh-Cherry Bomb (Fruit Beer), Killer Bees (Honey Ale), Coffee Ruckus (Coffee Imperial Stout) and Wu'Wit (Belgian Wit). If your beer is not madness, it's not beer.
The Natural History Museum
January 31, 2018
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, Africanised honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier) are a human-bred subspecies, first bred byÃÂ ...
Ahwatukee Foothills News
January 17, 2018
While Researchers at the Honey Bee Research Lab at Arizona State University's Polytechnic Campus are always looking for new and innovative ways to save declining honey bee ... “Right now, keeping bees in many states in backyards is not allowed because of Africanized bees,” Kaftanoglu said.
27east.com
January 17, 2018
Killer Bees Are 3-0 Heading Into Important Three-Game Stretch. J.P. Harding had 28 points, 22 rebounds and five assists in the win over Smithtown. Twitter; Facebook; Pinterest; Google+. Jan 16, 2018 1:32 PM. By Drew Budd. After losing all six of their non-league games the first month of the season inÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
January 12, 2018
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico woman discovered nearly 100,000 killer bees living on her property. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, the bees had built four hives in the ceiling of an outside storage space at her Dona Ana home. A bee removal specialist was called out to safelyÃÂ ...
Christian Chronicle
January 11, 2018
He and his wife, Mona, were stung multiple times by Africanized honey bees that were swarming under the wagon. Mona Mangal recovered, but her husband was hospitalized in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. “While he was hospitalized, the church was praying earnestly,” said Witfield Collins, a ministerÃÂ ...
Chicago Daily Herald
January 9, 2018
The Africanized honey bee, brought to Brazil by scientist Warwick Kerr in 1957, can't survive this far north, Berenbaum says. Ice crystals are the biggest threat to the bodies of bees and other insects. Monarch butterflies escape that danger by migrating. Asian ladybugs and other insects try to hang out insideÃÂ ...
Dan's Papers
January 7, 2018
The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees basketball teams have nine state Class D basketball championships under their belt—a fairly impressive number when considering that this most diminutive of schools has fewer than 200 kids in K-12. Some years ago, coaches struggled to find enough players toÃÂ ...
TCPalm
January 3, 2018
Honey bees are so important that farmers often have bee hives transported and then placed on their farm to provide pollination for their crops. .... The second hive the Cardens added are the Swarmin Normans, which Amy originally believed might be Africanized due to their bad temperament. The hive hasÃÂ ...
Science Daily
November 20, 2017
A genomic study of Puerto Rico's Africanized honey bees -- which are more docile than other so-called "killer bees" -- reveals that they retain most of the genetic traits of their African honey bee ancestors, but that a few regions of their DNA have become more like those of European honey bees. According toÃÂ ...
Inverse
November 16, 2017
Through a series of events that seem more like the plot of a Marvel movie than real life, the world's only colony of gentle killer honey bees, a hybrid of African and European strains, turned the island of Puerto Rico into their home. It all started in 1958, when a group of ragtag African killer bees escaped fromÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
August 4, 2017
Killer bees have been found within a few miles of Kansas. If not already here, they could be soon. Experts say Kansans needn't panic even though these are the same kind of bees that killed a 77-year-old Californian last week, stinging him more than 600 times. In Arizona and California several pets asÃÂ ...
Ahwatukee Foothills News
December 31, 1999
Gro Amdam, a professor in ASU's School of Life Sciences, is developing the world's first vaccines to protect honey bees from deadly diseases. Much of the ... The pest label stems in part from the population of Africanized honey bees that now thrive in the southwestern United States, Kaftanoglu said.
27east.com
November 29, 2017
Nae'Jon Ward, a sophomore, played for Bridgehampton last season and helped lead the Killer Bees to the Class D Regional Semifinals.
27east.com
November 29, 2017
The Bridgehampton boys basketball team had an exciting offseason, capped by the long awaited world premiere of “Killer Bees”—the ...
Science Daily
November 20, 2017
A genomic study of Puerto Rico's Africanized honey bees -- which are more docile than other so-called "killer bees" -- reveals that they retain ...
teleSUR English
November 18, 2017
A study of Puerto Rico's Africanized honey bees revealed that ... The creature – which are more docile than the typical killer bees – have ...
Inverse
November 16, 2017
Through a series of events that seem more like the plot of a Marvel movie than real life, the world's only colony of gentle killer honey bees, ...
ABC15 Arizona
November 14, 2017
“I definitely wouldn't be doing this without a veil if they were Africanized,” said beekeeper Roy Arnold, as he held a honeycomb full of bees.
Fortbendstar.com
November 8, 2017
Marie Brown stands by the side of the house where a swarm of killer bees was removed from her home by Claude Griffin of Gotcha Pest Control ...
The Bridge
October 31, 2017
Known colloquially as “killer bees,” the crossbreeds of European and African bees have been working their way north because of global ...
OCRegister
September 7, 2017
The Africanized honey bees in the Western Hemisphere are descended from hives operated by biologist Warwick E. Kerr in Sao Paolo Brazil in the early 1950s. Kerr sought to breed European bees with bees from southern Africa in the hope that the new strain would produce more honey in the Brazilian ...
AOL
August 16, 2017
The bees were later identified as African honey bees by beekeeper Steven Melton, who was called to the scene to address the situation.
KARK
July 10, 2017
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA) -- The dangers of a dwindling bee population have been well documented, but the bees themselves can prove to ...
witf.org
September 8, 2017
In the Amazon, boys face fierce animals in a rite of passage and a Bangladeshi father and son brave killer bees and man-eating tigers to findÃÂ ...
OCRegister
September 8, 2017
He's removing a colony of Africanized honey bees that had made a home in a Laguna Niguel apartment. (Photo by Bill Alkofer,Orange CountyÃÂ ...
KXXV News Channel 25
September 7, 2017
"Killer bees have given all honey bees a bad rap," Trigleth said. "Most of the time when your honey bees attack you, it's because they've beenÃÂ ...
Rare.us
September 6, 2017
Beekeeper Jimmy Lawrence explained that Africanized bees are more aggressive because their hives house more bees than other hives.
