Africanized Honey Bee

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Identification

Worker honey bees are about five-eighths of an inch long and are brown or black with yellow-striped abdomens.

Africanized honey bees are slightly smaller than the regular honey bee, but the bees look so much alike that only lab analysis can tell them apart.

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