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

black bee, German bee - dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin

Carniolan bee - greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition

Italian bee - yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits

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