Killer bee colonization

Project maps areas where Africanized bees could survive and thrive

Ultra-aggressive Africanized bees, commonly known as “killer bees,” haven’t yet spread to some regions of the United States, but they could. A newly launched, three-year NASA project will combine satellite observations of plant growth and projections of how climate might change in coming years to estimate where Africanized bees could ultimately survive in the wild.