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Everyone wants honey! I am writing about the original liquid nectar one and not the nick name you give to that someone special or specials!
Bees are probably one of the most important species in the world and all they do their whole life is work! In fact the average male in the colony who has done his function of reproduction is thrown out as soon as possible! While the workers work to collect honey from so many flowers in a complicated routine and contribute to pollination.
In contrast you have the Hornet! This is a devil! All it is capable of is stealing and killing! Some of them are called the Murder Hornets which are a particularly ruthless breed of hornet assassins!
The Murder Hornets like to attack and try to raid honey bee hives for food! Unfortunately for them, the honey bees have come up with a defense against their raids. What the honey bees will do is surround a single hornet with multiple bees, creating a tight, spherical formation around the hornet. The bees then begin to beat their wings ferociously. The beating is rhythmic and constant and in a specific direction! The unidirectional flow of air causes the heat to build up in the center! The miracle of nature is that the bees have naturally evolved in such a way that they can survive in heats just a couple or so degrees more than the hornets which literally gets cooked alive in the ‘Tandoor’ made by the bees!
Ingenious you would say but then nature finds a way!
And in Vietnam, that’s the giant hornet Vespa soror!
The Vespa soror has figured out a way to avoid this trap or heat ball!
Giant hornets will hunt honeybees on their own and grab them one by one!
But what is really lethal to honeybees is when they flip into a multiple hornet attack strategy. And when they do this, they essentially want to kill all the adult defenders so that the colony is no longer protected!
Which essentially means the thing which you have been listening to since ages! Unity in strength! The heat ball or the bee Tandoor will only work if everyone cooperates and does this united! Or else it fails! Much like how the attackers take out the scouts!
But do not worry for the, the bees have one more trick up their…wings!
A handful of beekeepers saw these spots! Whenever the bees detected a giant hornet nearby—but not other, smaller hornets—the honey bees began to arrange bits of these secret substance near the entrances to their hives. And the hornets themselves were less likely to land on a nest adorned with these spots which used to stink and stick!
Yes! The spots are cow DUNG! or Bull SHIT! sometimes even other poop is used!
This was surprising since bees generally keep their nests clean and tidy. They’re good at keeping diseases and pathogens out—two things that could be hiding in animal poop!
It isn’t clear why or how the poop shield works, but there must be some chemical inside the poop—presumably derived from the plants that the animals originally ate—that either actively repels the hornets or camouflages the scent of the bees’ nests!
Some beekeepers call this the Bull Shit defence!
Now next time someone exclaims bull shit! Do not get offended especially if you are a fan of the Honey (all kinds!)! Hope all this was not confusing! As confusing as reading out the name Danny Tshering Phintso Denzongpa! You can simply say oh! The birthday celebrity Danny Denzongpa!
Now wish good night to your Honey (s)!
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