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Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee
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
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German bee, black bee
dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
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Carniolan bee
greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition
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Italian bee
yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
