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The Africanized honey bee is the killer insect that came to North America from South America. The "killer bees" in question originate in the cross-breeding of African (Apis mellifera scutellata) honeybees with such European honey bees as the Iberian (A.m. iberiensis) and the Italian (A.m. ligustica). They owe their North American existences to ancestors who moved from deliberate Brazilian introductions in 1950 to opportunistic migrations northward through Latin America and even -- as of 1985 -- into North America.

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