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==Queen management in africanized bee areas==
In [[Mexico]], where africanized bees are well established, pollination beekeepers have found that a purchased and pre-bread non-africanized queen may be used to locally create a first generation of virgin queens that are then bread in an uncontrolled fashion with the local wild africanized drones. These first generation africanized queens produce worker bees that are manageable, not exhibiting the intense and massive defense reactions of subsqentsubseqent generations. This offers a relatively economical method of safe local beekeeping under what would otherwise lead to hazardous conditions.
 
== How to avoid bees ==