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Anonymous
So I guess Wikipedia is a shit place to get reliable information from but this is too cool to pass up, if it's true. It's about how Japanese honeybees defeat Asian giant hornets.

"When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive it will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honey bees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so will gather near the entrance of the nest and keep it open, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive or allow it to enter on its own. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honey bees surrounds it, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and begin quickly vibrating their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honey bee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). The honey bees can just tolerate this temperature, but the hornets cannot survive more than 45 °C (113 °F), and die. Often several bees perish along with the intruder, but the death of the hornet scout prevents it from bringing reinforcements which could wipe out the colony."

Everything in Japan is crazy.
>> Anonymous
Wikipedia's not too bad as long as you understand its ecology.

And yeah, that's true.
>> Anonymous
Never EVER leave them in the same room without supervision.
>> Anonymous
I saw something on discovery channel about these things. They let 3 of these guys into an american honeybee nestand they killed every last one. It was fucking nuts. I think they were trying to come up with a way to combat killer bees. Like trying to set these guys lose but give them a short life span or something.