Africanized bees may actually be good business. In Brazil, hybrids formed by crossing them with standard bees produce more honey than their wimpish European cousins. And since they’re resistant to a mite-borne bee disease that almost wiped out the American industry in the 1980s, Morse says it makes sense to bring more to the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture isn’t convinced. In Texas, its agents have been killing all they find.
