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In the 1950s 26 Tanzanian honey bee queens (apis mellifera scutallata) escaped from a research establishment in Brazil. They mated with local European (Western) honey bee drones (apis mellifera mellifera) and their offspring have spread as far north as the southern United States, and south to the limits of tropical South America. These are what are called Africanized honey bees.

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