African honeybee

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Af′rican hon′eybee

a small, highly mobile honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii, of S Africa, that swarms readily when disturbed and is capable of stinging repeatedly. Compare Africanized honeybee.

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adansonii as the African honeybee which has an inconvenient aggressive behaviour which is only compensated by its large honey output when in tropical climate, while Hussein [27] described A.

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For the same variable Stort (1971; 1975a) recorded a mean time o f3.15 seconds for African honeybee colonies and 12.86 seconds for africanized ones.

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Killers on the move In 1957, during a scientic experiment in Brazil, a dangerous subspecies of the African honeybee was accidentally released.

The Guinness Book of Amazing Nature: Part 3 Animal Kingdom - Swarms & Migration; Some animals gather together in their millions to form immense swarms and an irresistible force, others travel incredible distances to find new feeding or breeding grounds