A cool thing bees do to defend against wasps

[soothsayer]

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To defend against wasps, bees create a defense wave known as shimmering. Participating bees need to respond with perfect timing when it's their turn to shimmer. It’s unclear why wasps are intimidated by shimmering,

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Bees do The Wave! Cool!

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2. Cool! Human bee-ings sometimes do something similar

when defending their football team in their home stadium against an invading rival team.

[soothsayer]

3. Ha!

[Nitram]

4. Bees also stop ventilating their hive with their wings, raising the temperature above

that which an invading wasp can survive.

[soothsayer]

5. Really

I wonder how they know

[RainCaster]

6. Asian bees have a natural defense against murder hornets

They will swarm a single hornet and can raise the ambient temperature enough to kill it. It only takes 3-4 degrees.

[Harker]

7. I'd be intimidated, too.

Fascinated, but intimidated.

[mopinko]

8. unclear? do these people have eyes?

they are sucking up the light. black does that.

[BHDem53]

9. I'm intimidated

and I'm not even a wasp.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Wonderful! That would get anyone's attention. Never knew. Thank you for sharing! 🐝🐝