Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Cooking Hornets

Wow, now this is pretty impressive: the bees in a colony attacked by a hornet bum-rushed the hornet and vibrated their wings to raise the temperature and cook the hornet alive. (These bees can tolerate higher temperatures than the hornet.)
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2 comments:

Justin said...

The Oatmeal covered this a while back:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets

Keep up on your webcomics, man! :-D

2:13 PM, October 15, 2014
Mason said...

It's true that I am not up on my webcomics. The text in my link corresponds rather closely to that in the webcomic, so I think the writer of that piece is up on them...

The temperature that the Japanese honeybees can withstand does seem to have been downgraded a bit, however. (The one in the Oatmeal --- which provides a bit larger gap --- seems a bit more plausible to me, given the presumed noise across individuals.)

2:32 PM, October 15, 2014

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