Article reveals the tremendous damage insects can do. Perhaps the most feared and sensational of all foreign imports is the Africanized honeybee, better known as the killer bee. Brazilian scientists brought aggressive African bees to Brazil in 1956 in an effort to breed a better honeybee. Unfortunately, the experiment failed and some of the African bees escaped and bred with local species. The insects offspring have gradually moved northward and killed an estimated 1,000 people. Discovered in Hidalgo, Texas, in 1990, the bees are now established in most of Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California. Scientists say that while the Africanized bees are no more venomous than regular North American honeybees, they become agitated much more easily and stay angry longer, sometimes repeatedly stinging their victims for an entire day. They have been known to attack animals or people a quarter of a mile from their hives.

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