Editing Africanized bee (section)

=== Gentleness ===
[[File:Puerto Rican Africanized Bee.jpg|alt=A Puerto Rican Africanized Bee, using its proboscis.|thumb|A Puerto Rican Africanized Bee, using its proboscis.]]
Not all Africanized honey bee hives display the typical hyper-defensive behavior, which may provide bee breeders a point to begin breeding a gentler stock<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beesource.com/point-of-view/africanized-honey-bees/preparing-for-the-africanized-honey-bee-a-program-for-arizona/ |series=Beesource Beekeeping |title=Preparing for the "Africanized" honey bee: A program for Arizona |publisher=Beesource.com |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref> (gAHBs).<ref name="Avalos-et-al-2020" /><ref name="Galindo-Cardona-et-al-2013" /> Work has been done in Brazil towards this end, but in order to maintain these traits, it is necessary to develop a queen breeding and mating facility in order to requeen colonies and to prevent reintroduction of unwanted genes or characteristics through unintended crossbreeding with feral colonies. In Puerto Rico, some bee colonies are already beginning to show more gentle behavior. This is believed to be because the more gentle bees contain genetic material that is more similar to the European honey bee, although they also contain Africanized honey bee material.<ref name="Galindo-Cardona-et-al-2013">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1186/1471-2156-14-65 | pmid = 23915100 | pmc = 3750330 | title = Genetic structure of the gentle Africanized honey bee population (gAHB) in Puerto Rico | journal = BMC Genetics | volume = 14 | pages = 65 | year = 2013 | last1 = Galindo-Cardona | first1 = A. | last2 = Acevedo-Gonzalez | first2 = J. P. | last3 = Rivera-Marchand | first3 = B. | last4 = Giray | first4 = T. | doi-access = free }}</ref> This degree of aggressiveness is surprisingly almost unrelated to individual genetics – instead being almost entirely determined by the entire hive's proportion of aggression genetics.<ref name="SciTechDaily-group-aggression" /><ref name="Avalos-et-al-2020" />