11.   Africanized honey bees look just like European honey bees to the naked eye.

12.   Africanized honey bees look exactly like domestic honey bees and their individual stings are no more poisonous.

13.   Honey bees are attracted to hair and dark colors.

14.   In the battle to inform the public about Africanized honey bees, Hurley is part reconnaissance man, part scientist, part educator.

15.   Like honey bees, yellow jackets are thriving without rain.

16.   One menace is the microscopic tracheal mite that affects the breathing tubes of honey bees, often suffocating them.

17.   Regular honey bees will chase you about half the length of a football field.

18.   Talking parrots, shrieking bats, howling wolves and coyotes and, surprisingly, the buzzing honey bee also are contenders.

19.   The bees present a serious threat to California agriculture which is dependent on commercial European honey bees to pollinate most crops.

20.   The first swarm of Africanized honey bees to enter California through natural migration has been found near Blythe in Riverside County, Calif., agricultural officials said.