africanized honey bee

Noun

• a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Africanized bee , Africanized honey bee , killer bee , Apis mellifera scutellata , Apis mellifera adansonii