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Africanized honey bees, which were given the name 'killer bees' by the sensationalist media, are just a particular breed of honey bee (a cross between the Tanzanian honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, and the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera mellifera. As such, they are the same size and have the same appearance as the Western honey bee, and have the same lifespan. Queens live for three to five years; workers can live for up to six months over the winter, but will only live for about six weeks in the summer; and drones can live for about four months, but die during the act of mating with a new queen, and will be evicted from the hive by the workers at the end of summer, and will die of cold or starvation.

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