Africanized bees rescue loner trees

Sure, Africanized bees spread like wildfire and attack in mobs. But they’re not all bad. In fact, for some trees, they’re saviors.

Researcher Christopher Dick climbs a lonely giant in Brazil. S. Salvino de Souza

Certain lowland tropical trees that have survived deforestation and ended up alone in some pasture or other altered landscape have earned the nickname “the living dead,” says Christopher W.