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JungKim Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

killer bees

In the movie "We Bought a Zoo", the protagonist says something like:
"I think it could be a series like the killer bees."
I wonder if anyone get what he means by "killer bees" being a series. Seems like a cultural reference but can't think of any.
Help?
  

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Hi; "Killer bees" is a term for wild African bees that were released in South America and are now an invasive species in the Southern US. They compete with our native honeybees, do not produce very much honey, and are very aggressive. They are very nasty insects.

— AlpheccaStars

  • Hi; "Killer bees" is a term for wild African bees that were released in South America and are now an invasive species in the Southern US.
  • They compete with our native honeybees, do not produce very much honey, and are very aggressive.
  • They are very nasty insects.
  • org/wiki/Africanized_bee "Killer Bees" was also a TV movie.
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Hi;

"Killer bees" is a term for wild African bees that were released in South America and are now an invasive species in the Southern US. They compete with our native honeybees, do not produce very much honey, and are very aggressive. They are very nasty insects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African
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AlpheccaStars"Killer Bees" was also a TV movie.
I actually found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_bees#Film_and_television
But it has to be a series to be able to be c
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Maybe they referred to the characters in a TV series.

The Killer Bees were fictional characters in the TV series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
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I found the full quote ( http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/we-bought-a-zoo-quotes.html ). I think he is supposed to have choked and just blurted "killer bees" because that's all he could think of, when in reality the
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