africanized honeybee造句

• The result : Africanized honeybees, a fierce hybrid that aggressively defends its territory and spawns new colonies at up to four times the rate of its European cousins.
• Africanized honeybees attack in furious swarms with little provocation, pursue victims much farther than the more common European bees, and remain agitated for up to eight hours.
• While Africanized honeybees and imported red fire ants have grabbed headlines in Texas, Nature Conservancy officials say other species on the Dirty Dozen list have gone about their destruction quietly.
• For reasons still unclear to scientists, the Africanized honeybees we've come to know and fear as " killer bees " have stopped their march across southeast Texas.
• Of course, when it comes to Africanized honeybee migration patterns, such things as county lines, river routes, and mountain ranges and deserts don't account for much.
• AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE : The Africanized bee's venom is no more potent than that of other bees, but when it attacks, it alerts other bees, which join the fray.
• "It really is the first time they've entered a major urban area, " said Bill Routhier, a state Department of Food and Agriculture expert on Africanized honeybees.
• "This is the first stinging incident that has been directly attributed to Africanized honeybees in California, " said Brian Taylor, an entomologist with the state Department of Food and Agriculture.
• However, their population is believed to have declined by nearly sixty-five percent ( 65 % ) over the past few decades due to competition with the introduced Africanized honeybees along with human deforestation.
• Over the past three years, the state has played unwilling host to the Africanized honeybee, the destructive Formosan termite and a small weevil that attacks eucalyptus, one of the area's most common trees.
• But the country's biggest export market for live bees, Canada, closed its doors to U . S . queens during the 1980s in an attempt to avoid Africanized honeybee gene introduction and mite problems.
• To all but highly trained experts, an Africanized honeybee looks exactly like its more docile European cousin, which is the type most often found in the United States, in the wild as well as in commercial hives.
• The discovery of a swarm of Africanized honeybees in an oak tree in Calabasas west of Los Angeles makes it official : The San Fernando Valley is now officially colonized by the killer bees, Los Angeles County agriculture officials said Monday.
• Mark it down : Tuesday, Jan . 12, 1999, a large chunk of Los Angeles County was officially declared colonized by Africanized honeybees, a deadly hybrid that has claimed the lives of five Americans since migrating through Mexico from South America.
• Moreover, it can " eavesdrop " on chemical signals used by other bee species ( such as carpenter bees, Africanized honeybees and other stingless bees ) for the same purpose, killing them or driving them away to take over their food source.
• Africanized honeybee ( " Apis mellifera " ) : Known by the more dramatic name of " killer bee, " the Africanized honeybee competes with and displaces the native honeybee, potentially threatening the native plants that rely upon honeybees for pollination.
• Africanized honeybee ( " Apis mellifera " ) : Known by the more dramatic name of " killer bee, " the Africanized honeybee competes with and displaces the native honeybee, potentially threatening the native plants that rely upon honeybees for pollination.
• Since they don't live together in a large colony, they do not cooperatively defend anything, so it is almost impossible to get a swarm of them chasing you ( unlike certain wasps, africanized honeybees, etc . ) Anyway, just wanted to give you the general info that carpenter bees are nothing to be afraid of.
• This summer, the usual pests should be a little worse than average, because of the mild, dry winter and the timing of spring's rains, says Paul Jackson, the Texas A & M researcher who confirmed last month that Africanized honeybees, better known as " killer bees " have indeed found their way into North Texas.
• Several researchers and beekeepers describe a general trait of the African subspecies " Apis mellifera scutellata ", classified by Lepeletier, 1836  ( African honey bee ) Central and West Africa, which is absconding, where the Africanized honeybee colonies abscond the hive in times when food-stores are low, unlike the European colonies which tend to die in the hive.