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AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE

Specialty Definition: AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE

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Food & Agriculture

A subspecies introduced to the New World from Africa which has hybridized with European races of the honeybee. The aggressiveness of the hybrids has led to their being known(rather sensationally)as "killer bees". Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE

Language Translations for "AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

abeille tueuse (africanized bee). (various references)

   

German

  

Mörderbiene (africanized bee, killer bee, killerbee). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ape africanizzata (africanized bee, killer bee, killerbee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

africanizeday oneybeehay

   

Spanish

  

"abeja asesina". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE

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Latin500 BCE-Modern

apis mellifera scutellata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Bibliography


  

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