Posted on 11/10/2021 3:25:44 AM PST by blueplum
Asian honey bees scream as they are being attacked by giant hornets, scientists have discovered.
By recording acoustic signals from bees defending their nests from hornets, researchers were able to pinpoint an alarm signal akin to screams of fear....
...Heather Mattila, from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, studies the organization of animal societies and insect communication. In December last year, she published a study showing that honey bees will use animal poop to defend their nests .. Mattila and colleagues have looked closer at what happens before and during an attack.
They said hornets and honey bees appear locked in an "evolutionary arms race." The latter's defences include a "bee carpet" that can engulf an individual hornet to overheat and suffocate it, the aforementioned poop deposits, as well as...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Wonder if the honey bees use of dung will affect how honey is processed...
Maybe they’re screaming “Let’s Go, Brandon!”
Just one huge orgy??
Bzzz?
Says those bees came over from Asia on cargo ships. So Biden single handedly has stopped the flow into the US of this deadly menace! Way to go Brendan! You fân Commie!
the article says they plant it around their hive and the hornets won’t land on, or near it. Not sure if they wash their bee hands after collecting it for poo bombs, tho. They’re so smart they probably have a poo dedicated crew!
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Please remember that honey bees are a European import. They’re not native. They were imported to North America in the 17th century.
...according to George Wald, Nobel Prize winning biologist(discovered light sensitive chemicals in eyes)...time is the hero. And that given enough time the impossible becomes probable, the probable becomes certain....
Howver, his full philisophical position(you can look it up...just google “george wald quote azquotes”)...is that he knows his position is unscientific but he refuses to believe life was created because he does not WANT to believe in God.
At least it is an honest admission of bias.
Wing Attack Plan R.
For folks who like raw honey this may pose a problem.
Need more bee foreleg sanitizer pumps and little vinyl gloves.
I’d scream too if I were attacked by giant hornets.
Since the animal fecal matter is at the entrance of the hive, it prevents the hornets from landing.
Commercial and residential apiaries use a 'landing board' in front of the entrance to the hive body where the fecal matter would be placed,
thus not even entering into the hive body 'super' where the honey is stored within the drawn out cells.
Don't forget that honey has historically been used as it has proven bactericide benefits
and is shown to have some antiviral benefits as well.
Bees being deaf none of the other bees hear the screams.
They are a hive mind.đ
Are you sure this isn’t just a test?
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