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The Swarm
1978 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Irwin Allen
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
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> The Africanized honeybee, known perhaps from bad horror movies
You're talking about The Swarm (1978), which is absolutely so-bad-it's-good. Fans of Michael Caine will I think in particular find it rewarding, and I was especially impressed with its frankly prescient treatment of the drawbacks inherent in mass insecticide application given that the ongoing research increasingly points to exactly that as the culprit for pollinators disappearing.
And of course the much bigger/better-funded (but apparently less-original) "The Swarm" (1978):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(film)