Africanized honey bee

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Africanized honey 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

Africanized bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee

Apis mellifera, honeybee - social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

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