Africanized Bees: The Africanization Process and Potential Range in the United States

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Evaluating the problems likely to be caused by insects not yet in the United States is an unusual enterprise for entomologists. The complexity of the biological world causes such predictions to be wrong at least as often as they are correct, which rarely makes the exercise desirable. But, rarely do we have an opportunity to see a spreading insect population moving toward our borders, as is the case with Africanized bees. The attempt of Taylor (1985) to predict their spread and impact is noteworthy. Only with such attempts can we alert our scientific and agricultural establishments to prepare themselves to mitigate potential problems. However, the predictions of Taylor may have left some Bulletin readers with the impression that the impact is most likely to be small and regional, that the Africanization process is fully documented, and that all the important basic research has been finished.

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