When are the africanized bees or "killer bees" supposed to reach Tennessee?

Question

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Will they continue this way?

Answer 1

There seem to be two main deterrents to the spread of Africanized honeybees (AHB). Low winter temperatures and/or high yearly rainfall. AHB, being from Africa and all, haven't developed the "winter cluster" behavior of the European honeybees(EHB). Honeybees don't hibernate so in the winter EHBs huddle together in a ball, feeding off their honey stores, shivering, and keeping warm. In the dead of winter when temperatures drop to single digits an EHB hive can be 60F inside! AHBs never needed to develop this behavior so when cold weather strikes they freeze to death. Another factor that has been observed is rainfall above ~55" a year is also not conducive to the AHBs. They aren't sure why but cite that as the reason why AHBs haven't infiltrated the other southern states like Louisiana and Mississippi.

Answer 2

The Africanized bees may not get to Tennessee at all, and
even if they do they will probably lose their aggressiveness.
Their behavior is an adaptation to life in the tropics, and in
temperate climates it is bred out of them by mating with the
temperate strains of the honeybee. If the reason lfor dying off of honeybees in the U.S. is not discovered there may be no
honeybees of any kind, Africanized or not, left. I have noticed
that the honeybees I see now, much less frequently than I
used to, seem smaller than I remember them being. I used
to keep bees, so I was quite familiar with them.

Answer 3

Even if they do reach Tennessee, they may not be there very long. If you have heard about the mass die off of bees here in America, then you know this is a serious problem. The U.S. may soon become a veritable vegetarian wasteland with no bees to pollinate food crops and other kinds of plants. If answers are not found soon to reverse this trend, we may find ourselves looking much like equatorial Africa, and beset with famines and other concomitant problems

Answer 4

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