[Pollinator] Arm yourself (with knowledge) to battle Africanized honeybees

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Arm yourself (with knowledge) to battle Africanized honeybees 
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Christine Winter Juneau
On gardening

February 16 2008

If you live in Broward or Palm Beach counties, almost any honeybee you see is most likely an Africanized honeybee, according to Dr. William Kern, assistant professor in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida. They were first intercepted at local ports in 2002. Three years layer, the aggressive Africanized bees, nicknamed killer bees, have outnumbered the milder mannered European honeybees. 

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