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>A single hornet can kill as many as 40 bees per minute due to its large mandibles, which can quickly strike and decapitate prey.
>A single hornet can kill as many as 40 bees per minute due to its large mandibles, which can quickly strike and decapitate prey.
>the Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica) has an effective strategy. When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive, she emits specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the Japanese honey bees detect these pheromones, 100 or so gather near the entrance of the nest and set up a trap, keeping the entrance open.[91]
This permits the hornet to enter the hive. As the hornet enters, a mob of hundreds of bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and preventing it from reacting effectively. The bees violently vibrate their flight muscles in much the same way as they do to heat the hive in cold conditions.[91] This raises the temperature in the ball to the critical temperature of 46 degC (115 degF).[91]
In addition, the exertions of the honey bees raise the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ball.[91] The bees can tolerate up to 50 degC (122 degF) even at that concentration of CO2, but the hornet cannot survive the combination of high temperature and high carbon dioxide level.[
>Detailed research suggests this account of the behavior of the honey bees and a few species of hornets is incomplete and that the honey bees and the predators are developing strategies to avoid expensive and mutually unprofitable conflict. Instead, when honey bees detect scouting hornets, they transmit an "I see you" signal that commonly warns off the predator.
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>>3485470You are so braindead. All angry hornets are women, stingers are a feminine trait.
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Why hasn't women done that to me,Im a pretty aggressive sexually unsuccessful guy
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Male hornets are just bug dogs,
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>>3485529MALE HORNETS ARE NOT AGGRESSIVE
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Kill nametroons