After the research began, swarms of these African honey bees escaped and bred with other bees which lived in the Brazilian jungles. These bees slowly migrated to the United States. Although the African honey bee looks like the more docile honey bee. First, the African honey bee is slightly smaller and produces less venom. Because the queen has workers to aid her in the hive, both the Africanized and European honey bee are referred to as a social bee.
Honey bees live, breed and produce honey in a hive.
The main function of the queen bee is to keep the worker bees busy. By secreting a pheromone through the mandibular gland which is located near the head, the queen keeps the workers uninterested in reproduction so that additional queen bees do not develop. Pheromone is a chemical that smells like lemons. 4 Pheromone not only acts like a birth control, it also is used as an alarm mechanism between bees. The Africanized Honey bee pays more attention to the alarm pheromone than the European Honey bee.