Uhhhh, Rex, let me be the first to tell you that the Africanized honey bee is alive, well and thriving in Texas. And has been for quite a while.
Each year the Texas Bee Industry and the Texas AG Dept spend lotsa money trying to control the Aftricanized honey bee and trying to keep them from dominating domestic hives. Give them a call and I am sure they, like I, can give you more information about honey bees than you would ever want to know.
To compare a block of a dozen or so carpenter bees, under the eaves of a house, pollinating a couple of fruit trees in the yard to 50 hives of honey bees, each containing upwards to 75,000 worker bees, in the middle of an orchard that stretches 5 miles by 5 miles that is located in what is otherwise a desert, doesn't really compute does it. Without the bees, the orchard wouldn't/couldn't exist.
Fresh fruits and vegtables would again become seasonal, available only a few weeks out of the year.If then.
I am not necessarily buying into the info that started this thread. I think it may be some sort of shrill, tabloid attempt for some more grant money. One of these days, some one is gonna come along with a real "cry wolf" and we are gonna be so jaded with the scare of the day, that we aren't gonna even notice and will all die. And I really hate it when that happens.