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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Killer bee invasion?
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Date: 2 Oct 90 19:15:25 GMT
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In article <34370@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>Technically speaking, they are not African bees but Brazilian bees, i.e. a
>hybrid produced as a result of the accidental release of some African queens.
>(hmm... good name for a movie)  None of these bees are more than 50% African.

Quite right.   This is why the insect experts, such as Dr Taylor, who are
studying these bees call them *Africanized* rather than African.


[BTW, Dr Taylor's work is quite interesting: he has predicted the northern
limit which the Africanized bees will reach in North America.  It includes
us here in Los Angeles, but excludes most of the rest of the US, except Texas,
Arizona and New Mexico.