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An Investigation of the Migration of Africanized Honey Bees into the Southern United StatesIt is estimated that Apis mellifera scutellata, a honey bee subspecies from Africa, now extends over a 20 million square kilometer range that includes much of South America and practically all of Central America, and recently has been introduced to the southern United States. African honeybees were introduced into Brazil in 1956 by a Brazilian geneticist, Mr. Warwick Kerr. At the insistence of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, in 1957, 26 colonies were accidentally released in a eucalyptus forest outside S5o Paulo. The swelling front of the bees was recorded as traveling between 80 and 500 kilometers a year. David Roubik, one of the original killer bee team members estimated that there were one trillion individual Africanized/African honey bees in Latin America. An estimate that is thought to be conservative.
Document ID
20010000452
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Navarro, Hector
(Texas Univ. El Paso, TX United States)
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1997
Publication Information
Publication: NASA University Research Centers Technical Advances in Education, Aeronautics, Space, Autonomy, Earth and Environment
Volume: 1
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
URC97093
Funding Number(s)
OTHER: NCCW-89
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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