charlie wrote:

and that technique worked well with the african bees, didn't it?

African bees were brought to South America in the fifties as part of a lab
expiriment. The problem was that they got outside of the lab.

The interesting thing about the african bees is that they are virtually
identical to our regular European honey bees, and are actually no more
venomous, either. The difference is that it takes very little to provoke
african bees to attack, and once provoked, they attack in greater numbers
and over greater distances.

Jon