Africanized bees do lose their stinger when they sting and then they die.
Once you get stung by the Africanized bee the stinger will be left in you and then the Africanized bee eventually dies so they only sting once.
Even though the Africanized honey bee can only sting once, losing its stinger in the process of stinging its victim, the stingers must be removed because they continue to release venom into the wound, if only for a short period of time.
Africanized bees are eaten by honey badgers, safari ants, bee wolves, bears, armadillos, anteaters and even ants.
Just like any honey bee race, Africanized honey bees are pollen and nectar feeders and excellent pollinators.
They Africanized honey bee feeds on both nectar and pollen from flowering plants.
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee and known colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee, produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee and the Iberian honey bee.
African honeybees are much more hostile than European varieties, as their natural environment has far more predators looking to destroy hives for honey.
Coordinated defensive manoeuvres enable African bees to better fend off these attacks.
Africanized Honey Bees also known as killer bees are dangerous because they attack intruders in numbers much greater than European Honey Bees.
Since their introduction into Brazil, Africanized bees have killed some 1,000 humans, with victims receiving ten times as many stings than from the European strain.
Africanized honey bees are considered an invasive species in the Americas.
As of 2002, the Africanized honey bees had spread from Brazil south to northern Argentina and north to Central America, Trinidad (the West Indies), Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, and southern California.
Though Africanized honey bees have more aggressive tendencies than other bees, their venom is the same as European bees.
Rumors about Africanized honey bee venom being more lethal than other bee's venom are everywhere.
They are also completely false.
A bee can obtain speeds of from 12 to 15 miles per hour, but most healthy humans can outrun them.
So, RUN! And when you run Keep Running ! Africanized honey bees have been known to follow people for more than a quarter mile.
Africanized "killer" bees look so much like domestic honey bees that the only way to tell the two apart is by measuring their bodies.
Africanized bees are slightly smaller than their counterpart.
They are golden yellow with darker bands of brown.