Wellesley College researchers have identified a sound that Asian honeybees use to warn the hive of a “murder hornet” attack. Asian honeybees (Apis cerana) produce a unique alarm sound to alert hive members to an attack by giant “murder hornets,” according to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. For the […]
Enlarge / “What are you looking at?” The Asian Giant Hornet, aka a “murder hornet,” is not to be trifled with. (credit: Gary Alpert) In November 2019, a beekeeper in Blaine, Washington, named Ted McFall was horrified to discover thousands of tiny mutilated bodies littering the ground: an entire colony of his honeybees had been […]
By now you have certainly seen the images : A couple of forms encased in white nylon suits are all working on scaffolding at the bottom of a saran-wrapped shrub from the reddish shine of headlamps, among them lifting a plexiglass vacuum tubing involving its blue-gloved hands in victory. These were not scenes in the […]