David Roubik, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

David Roubik, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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Throughout David Roubik's long career as a tropical bee biologist, he has tracked the progress of Africanized bees as they swept through Central America. A 17-year study of these "killer bees" shows that drought and climate change may have more effect on native bees than this invasion.

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