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the "killer" bees wre initiallt bred w/ so. am. honey bees who were too hot to feel like working. The bees are actually african bees who don't mind the heat so much, but aren't particularly interested in business either.(no racist jokes here) the thinking was that you'd end up with a bee that liked to work (euro honey bee) and who didn't mind the heat(african bee).

We ended up with a bee that doesn't like to work, and doesn't work and play well with the other children.

The good news is that they don't seem to like the cold all that much and their inexorable migration north has slowed somewhat.

the mites, tracheal and varroa, are really the problem.

sizewise, it would be comparable to you having three or four leeches the size of dinner plates attached to your body while you tried to go about your daily work.

so, hug a bee today.