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Want birds? Bats? Bees? Offer custom-made housing - Arizona Daily Star

Want birds? Bats? Bees? Offer custom-made housing
Arizona Daily Star
"You are much more likely to be stung by honeybees than these bees," says Buchmann, adjunct scientist with the University of Arizona's entomology department. Neither honeybees nor Africanized bees will use the condos, since they are structured ...

USABirdSupply.com Offers Amazing Mason Bees - Get Winter Dormant Mason Bees ... - PR Web (press release)

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USABirdSupply.com Offers Amazing Mason Bees - Get Winter Dormant Mason Bees ...
PR Web (press release)
Plus, two mites that have affected honey bees have had no effect on native mason bees that have a natural resistance to some mites and molds. They are immune from attack from Africanized honey bees (killer bees) as they do not produce honey.

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Paul Flemming: What the buzz? Just ask the honeybees - Tallahassee Democrat (blog)

Paul Flemming: What the buzz? Just ask the honeybees
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Africanized bees are in Florida, as far north as Interstate 4 and marching northward. "Those bees are everywhere. You cannot stop them, they're not going to go away," said master beekeeper Nancy Gentry, co-owner of Cross Creek Honey Co. in Interlachen.

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Firing of state beekeeper stings Kentucky's apiarists - Lexington Herald Leader

Lexington Herald Leader

Firing of state beekeeper stings Kentucky's apiarists
Lexington Herald Leader
Apples, peaches, berries and pumpkins are all impossible without bees. As is honey, of course. But the state beekeeper has a couple of other important duties. If anyone finds aggressive, possibly Africanized bees, the state apiarist is sent to check ...

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Q and A: Beekeeper Tom O'Neil - Powhatan Today

Powhatan Today

Q and A: Beekeeper Tom O'Neil
Powhatan Today
The last decade or so has been really rough on bees – from Colony Collapse Disorder [the mysterious disappearance of massive numbers of honeybee colonies, which began in 2006], to the Varroa mite, to Africanized bees taking over in certain places .