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A killer bee with striped abdomen hovering over a honeycomb beside a map of the Americas with an upward arrow and a geometric hive structure on a light gray background

Swarms That Chase You for a Quarter Mile — Think You Know Killer Bees?

Bees & Wasps

Difficulty

Medium

Questions

29

Volts

2/q

They escaped from a lab in Brazil, spread across two continents, and chase threats farther than any other bee. Killer bees sting in massive swarms, outproduce European bees at the hive, and have reshaped beekeeping wherever they show up.