Whilst I have no experience of Africanised bees, we do sometimes get some
very nasty bees in this country - usually where yellow and black bees cross.
Some of these will meet you 50 yards from the apiary and follow for several
hundred yards when you leave.

The easiest way to find and remove the queen is to take off the supers and
then move the brood box away - perhaps 20 yards - then leave them for ten
minutes to calm down.  The most agressive bees will now be back with the
supers and it is usually very easy to find the queen in the now depleted
brood box(es).

Peter Edwards
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