[txhurl]

She rules the hive... and produces hybrids? The hive becomes more docile?

Great idea. Killer bees really do kill often here in TX.

[rickomatic]

She rules the hive... and produces hybrids? The hive becomes more docile?

Yes, she does rule over a soon to be docile hive. There is no hybridization involved at all. The Africanized queen is killed and replaced with an already mated European queen. A queen mates once in life with several drones and is then fertile for life. She lays eggs for several years until she is replaced. The normal honey bee only lives for a few weeks, so within a few weeks of the new queens introduction all the Africanized bees have died off, and been replaced with the docile European ones from the eggs layed by the new queen, who has zero Africanized genes in her.