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Title: African honey bee and Africanized Honey Bees (AHB)
Post by: Joelel on October 14, 2009, 10:55:39 AM

What do the African honey bee look like ,their color ? and Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) .I'm sure Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) could look like almost any other bee ,right, but what does the African bee look like when not mixed with other bees ?

Title: Re: African honey bee and Africanized Honey Bees (AHB)
Post by: Joelel on October 14, 2009, 11:45:24 AM

Thank you,I found out.

Africanized Honey Bees

http://www.sdnhm.org/research/entomology/ahb.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

African honey bee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_mellifera_scutellata

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN790

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LyraEDISServlet?command=getImageDetail&image_soid=FIGURE%201&document_soid=IN790&document_version=45452

Title: Re: African honey bee and Africanized Honey Bees (AHB)
Post by: weBEE Jammin on October 19, 2009, 12:12:20 AM

They look like any other bee, just more aggessive. The way they find out is from DNA samples.

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