It turns out that if you raise an africanized queen in a temperate climate, the bees she produces are no more aggressive than European bees; likewise, a European queen raised in a hot, tropical climate produces bees just as hyper-aggressive as typical africanized bees.

I can confirm that - because I live in a temperate region rather close to where those bees started spreading, so we got them rather early. And yet the bees here aren't specially aggressive or something like that, they will attack you if you mess with their hive but that's it, odds are that non-hybrid European bees do the same.

Really? This is super interesting. I have been stressing out about when the swarms of murder bees reach me here in the north still in 2020s and you are telling me this is one of the few things I didn't need to worry about...

I lived in the Southwest when the africanized bees arrived, and there was indeed a sharp increase in attacks, a couple deaths over a a number of years, a lot of pets getting attacked. Then people just moved on and people learned to not fuck around with hives.

I don't know if it was the queens de-agressing in the new environment or public awareness or just media hype dying down, or all of the above, but yeah, it turned out to be the least of our actual worries in the 21st century.

Adricanized honey bee scare came back in the 2000s, didn't it?

Anyway, we know the adricanized honey bees were a myth, but adricanized honey badgers are a real force to be reckoned with