The Africanization of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in the Americas is among the most
extensive insect invasions in the world, with large-scale effects on the economy and ecology …

Beekeeping is a cornerstone activity that has led to the human-mediated, global spread of
western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) outside their native range of Europe, western Asia …

Nest defense in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a complex collective behavior modulated
by various interacting social, environmental, and genetic factors. Scutellata-hybrid …

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been threatened by multiple factors including pests and
pathogens, pesticides and loss of locally adapted gene complexes due to replacement and …

Africanized honey bees entered California in 1994 but few accounts of their northward
expansion or their frequency relative to European honey bees have been published. We …

Highly aggressive Africanized honeybees (AHB) invaded Puerto Rico (PR) in 1994,
displacing gentle European honeybees (EHB) in many locations. Gentle AHB (gAHB) …

Upon their first introduction to Americas in 1956, African honey bees (Apis mellifera
scutellata) hybridized with the previously introduced and already established European …

Canadian honey bees, like all honey bees in the New World, originated from centuries of
importation of predominately European subspecies, but their precise genetic ancestry has …

Invasive species often play a significant role in ecosystem decline and the loss of
biodiversity. Nonetheless, a number of social bee species (Apidae) have been, and are still …

Hybridization may help drive biological invasions by reducing Allee effects, increasing
genetic variation, and generating novel adaptive genotypes/phenotypes. Social insects …