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Africanized honey bee

DEFINITIONS OF: Africanized honey bee

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n a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

Synonyms:
Africanized bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee
Type of:
Apis mellifera, honeybee
social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
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