Bee Attack Incidents & Data
Honey Bee Awareness documents serious defensive honey-bee incidents in the United States while also tracking official records and documented patterns from countries that have lived with Africanized “killer bees” for decades.
Two Different Kinds of Evidence
Our U.S. incident database examines individual attacks in detail. International records help show the much larger historical scale of the problem across the Americas. They are different datasets, so we keep them clearly separated rather than mixing unlike numbers together.
Together, they help show what is happening now and what decades of experience elsewhere can teach us.
United States Incidents
Explore individually documented serious U.S. incidents involving injuries, fatalities, animal losses, emergency response, common triggers, and other public-safety consequences.
International Records
See official country totals and documented evidence from Mexico, Central America, South America, and other areas affected by Africanized honey bees.
Maps & Statistics
Explore where documented incidents have occurred, patterns in the U.S. data, and official international records without confusing one dataset with another.
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Why the U.S. Count Is Incomplete
Serious attacks are scattered across news reports, emergency-response records, medical systems, veterinary cases, pest-control activity, and other sources. No national reporting system currently brings the complete picture together.
Know About an Incident We Are Missing?
Public reports and firsthand leads help us locate incidents that may otherwise disappear from the record. Reports can involve people, pets, livestock, workers, first responders, or significant community disruptions.