What are Africanized Bees

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What are Africanized Bees?

• European Honeybees,
• Africanized Honeybees,
• Other Stinging Insects.

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Bees often get the blame for other pestering
insects

• Bumble Bees
• Yellow Jackets
• Sweat Bees
• Wasps

But Honeybees are specific and easy to tell
apart from the others.
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Lets Not Confuse the Issue.Not all stinging
insects are honeybees
Yellowjacket, European paper wasp, Honey bee,
Bumble bee
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Except for Honeybees, most stinging insects dont
leave their stinger

• Honeybees have a barbed stinger and this causes
  their stinger to stay behind.

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Cuckoo Wasp
Sweat Bee
Bald Faced Hornet Nest
Syrphid Fly
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African and European Honeybee look the same.
Only an expert using sophisticated equipment can
tell the difference.
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If properly maintained, these bees should cause
no concern.
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Beekeepers maintaining European bees are a first
line of defense

• AHB is just looking for new foraging grounds,
• The presence of well maintained European
  honeybees will help to fill the vacuum that would
  result in their absence.