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Oh god those are terrifying. I don’t know if I have ever seen a more frightening animal tbh. They look very durable, fast, and the stinger is huge. The article
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
Oh god those are terrifying. I don’t know if I have ever seen a more frightening animal tbh. They look very durable, fast, and the stinger is huge.
The article suggested honeybees kill them by surround them and vibrating to cause the hornets to overheat and die.
That is also fascinating. How does that ever evolve.
- lostlogin 7y agoA clump of bees is very warm, picking up a swarm is relatively low risk and the heat is definitely the first thing you notice, though done wrong it could also be the last. It’s interssting that they turned a survival technique into killing method.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoLike how warm? How hot do you imagine the hornets get
- lostlogin 7y agoThey keep their hives at about 35C, which is white noticeable when you open them up. Same goes for big clumps of bees. Angry ones balling a invader are considerably hotter it seems, and this article mentions 49C. I’ve seen other article noting that bees die at about 51, while hornets die at a fractionally lower temperature. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12649-honeybees-gang-up-to-smother-deadly-hornets/amp/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12649-honeybees-gang-...
- blaser-waffle 7y agoKind of like a fever, heating your body up to fight off infections. Or, in a chemical sense, chemo vs. cancer.