Africanized honey bees (also spelled Africanised honey bees), known colloquially as `killer bees`, are a hybrid of the Western honey bee species, (Apis mellifera), produced originally by cross-breeding of the African honey bee A. m. scutellata, with various European honey bees such as the Italian bee A. m. ligustica and the Iberian bee A. m. ibe..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
Africanized honey beenoun a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974