How the Fierce Am scutellata Became Gentle In Puerto Rico

摘要

An island has its own kind of magic, if the forces of Nature can be called that. Flora and fauna can be transformed there into plants and animals that are unlike their continental relatives. A.m. scu-tellata, the African-derived honey bee that forgedits aggressive way from Brazil to Texas in half a century, defied attempts to quell it — until it came to Puerto Rico, where it turned into as gentle a creature as a bee can be.Is that true? Yes. Can we get some? Hold on. How did it happen? That's a story to be told, a rare and fascinating one.