Africanized honey bees, often called "killer bees," are now found in 13 states, including Mississippi. This invasive species is spreading into new areas, leaving a trail of death and heartbreak.

Bees make significant contributions to healthy ecosystems and to food security. However, factors such as climate change, improper use of pesticides, and intensive monoculture production pose serious ...

There's been a surge in the number of Africanized honey bees across the southern United States, prompting experts to issue warnings. The Africanized honey bee is an invasive species that's been ...

Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators in Arizona’s ecosystem, but these bees have a serious side: their ...

COMANCHE, Texas — Known for their ferocity, Africanized honeybees, or “killer bees”, were first bred in Brazil in 1956 to boost honey production in warm climates, but quickly gained notoriety after 20 ...

Seven years ago, Andrea Montoya took her grandson to play in Boulder Creek – and her life changed forever. “My husband said, ‘Did you see that structure over there? That’s called a bee house,'” ...

With summer comes warm weather, beach trips and those pesky flying insects that can cause a lot of problems. Hornets, wasps and bees can cause damage, create nests and swarm residents and pets when ...

It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, ...

Africanized "killer" bees are a hybrid species known for aggressively defending their hives. Some 90%-100% of wild honey bee colonies in Arizona are Africanized. Killer bee attacks in Arizona have ...