(Science News Online)
At least two species of honeybees there, the native Apis cerana and the introduced European honeybee, Apis mellifera, engulf a wasp in a living ball of defenders and heat the predator to death. A new study of heat balling has described a margin of safety for the defending bees, says Tan Ken of Yunnan Agricultural University in Kunming, China.
Goodness gracious, this is Jerry Bee Lewis stuff.
(via Amy’s ScienceAlertWire)
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