>> ‘Africanized honey bees’ are a deadly species that have now invaded N America. Gotta be very careful. There are some do’s and dont’s regarding what to do if attacked by a swarm. <<
Not exactly. African honey bees are the same species as the European (or “Western”) honey bee; just a different, more aggressive population. (Honey bees are not native the United States.) Africanized honey bees are a hybrid between African honey bees and European honey bees, which escaped from researchers in Brazil in the 1960s.
“Not exactly. African honey bees are the same species as the European (or “Western”) honey bee; just a different, more aggressive population.”
Exactly.
If you keep bees, just know the genetics of each queen.
And if you get your queens from a breeder, those queens will have some African-New World genetics.