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The hornets in that tube look very dead to me.
by MauranKilom 6y ago
The hornets in that tube look very dead to me.
- datameta 6y agoThe hornets had been put on ice which lowers their metabolism to a state of stupor but they recover from this as soon as their temperature goes back up. Another common technique for making stinging insects docile during handling is using smoke to calm a beehive's alertness response through inhibiting their ability to detect pheromones that signal danger.