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Killer Bees in Spain???

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i have seen this a few times...
what lead you to think it would be AHB in Spain vs AHB in a SA country in the normal AHB range where Spanish is a common language ?
honest question, not being sarcastic
 
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I was over in Portugal for the summer working with a farmer there. He had iberian honey bees, which according to him was the most common type of bee there. Much more defensive than anything I am used to working with here in the Northeast. Would follow you quite a distance if you disturbed their nest.
 
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I have 600 bee hives of the ecotype a.m.iberiensis, more commonly known as iberian, because they are the native bees of the Iberian Peninsula.

So far no specialist has labeled them Africanized. They are defensive bees, some more than others.

In this particular case their defensiveness was boosted by the fact that a boar turned over their home. The cyclists themselves say that they have passed through the area several times without being bitten.
 
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