You can’t reliably tell Africanized from European honeybees by eye; they look essentially the same. The useful differences are behavioral: Africanized colonies react faster, send many more stinging bees, stay defensive longer, swarm and abscond more often, and commonly occupy smaller, odd cavities. In areas where Africanized bees are established, it’s safest to assume any feral colony has Africanized genetics and treat it as high‑risk. | Killer Bee Guy
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