Our researchers were way off in what they said would happen in the U.S. when
AHb crossed the *Texas border.* End of commercial beekeeping. Hide the women
and children! 

I don't know which "researchers" you are talking about but Prof. Roger Morse of Cornell University spent many years studying the African bees and that certainly doesn't sound like anything HE said. 

Roger wrote:

It will probably take five to ten years for beekeepers in the
southern and warmer parts of the US.A. to learn how to best manage
the Africanized honey bees. Unfortunately, as these bees have moved
north in South and Central America only a few North American
researchers have studied their biology. Researchers from this country
have not studied how management will change and what steps
should be taken to be able to gain the most from these bees.
However, much of this knowledge is in the hands of Brazilian
beekeepers, researchers, and extensionists who are increasingly being
called upon by those in Central America for advice. Many commercial
beekeepers from the US. have taken the time and trouble in the
past few years to visit Brazil and talk with Brazilian beekeepers, and
to work with their bees, so as to better prepare themselves for the
coming of these bees. The Mexican government has put an extensive
extension program in place in the Yucatan peninsula, which is a
major honey producing area in that country. Increasingly, the
American beekeeping industry is facing the fact that Africanized bees
are migrating north and that a positive approach is necessary to cope
with the new bees, especially the public's concern about them. We
will continue to need and use honey bees to produce honey and
pollinate crops. In time, the term "Killer bee" will disappear and we
will live with this much maligned creature. 

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