What is the truth about killer bees?
If you heard somebody talking about Africanized honey bees you’d probably raise an eyebrow and say ‘what’ but if somebody else said ‘killer bees’, you’d probably have a dozen or so stories to say about something you read, saw on T.V or even experienced. Needless to say, the story of killer bees have spun the globe ever since the late 1950’s when these swarms of highly aggressive bees made their debut in the Americas but what is the story behind the killer bees and how did they find their way to the Americas where they gained so much fame. Killer bees are cross breeds between European and the aggressive African honey bees. It all started when the traps covering the African beehives in a Brazilian laboratory were accidentally removed by a visitor. In no time, twenty six swarms of pure African bees had escaped and they quickly infiltrated wild bee colonies and mated with the European honeybees. The African queen bees had been brought to the lab from South Africa and Tanzania in an attempt
