Killer bees in Bay Area for 1st time

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The following article was published by S.F. Gate on September 28, 2015:

‘Killer bees’ found in the Bay Area for the first time

An Africanized breed of honeybees — sometimes known as “killer bees” because of their swarming, aggressive and deadly nature when a colony is threatened — has found its way to the Bay Area for the first time, researchers say.

The bees were found in a Lafayette subdivision called Reliez Valley, near the southeast side of Briones Regional Park, by UC San Diego researchers who have been tracking the bees’ movement throughout the state. Until now, the bees had been detected only as far north as Mariposa County in California’s more inland Central Valley, but they were probably attracted by the Bay Area’s warming temperatures.

Joshua Kohn, a professor of biology at UC San Diego, said...

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