Why don researchers think of a way to kill all the Africanized honeybees?
A. Africanized honeybees, like their cousins the regular European honeybee, actually are useful in helping to pollinate plants. Scientists still are trying to learn more about the value of Africanized honeybees, and in some South and Central American countries and in their native African, these bees are maintained for honey production. Even if they never are used for honey production in the United States, it would not be possible to kill one kind of honeybee without killing other types. And because the population of regular honeybees has been greatly harmed by a deadly mite in recent years, honeybees are desperately needed to pollinate our crops and flowers.
