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]]>Both bees and wasps both have black and yellow stripes on their bodies. However, the body of a bee is usually slightly thicker and covered with hair that helps it catch more pollen. Wasps have slender bodies without any hair.
Bees will sting a human only when attacked and can only sting once. This is because they usually have a barbed sting that gets caught in the human skin and gets pulled off when they try to escape, at which point they die. Wasps, on the other hand, might sting humans as soon as they notice them and can do it multiple times because of a smooth sting that doesn’t get stuck.
Bees only feed on pollen and nectar. Wasps, on the other hand, feed on sugars from whatever source they can. Sometimes, it is flower nectar and honeydew, and other times, it is your sweet drink of ice cream. On top of that, they also feed on larvae of other insects.
Out of 20,000 species of bees, around 800 of them produce honey. On the other hand, there are thousands of wasps, 17 of which can produce honey. But while bees produce an abundance of honey, wasps make small amounts that are only sufficient for their needs.
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]]>Since they are in the open, they are directly exposed to a wide range of predators, specifically to birds and wasps including hornets. This predatory burden seemingly gave rise to the evolution of a series of defense strategies. They show very well coordinated Mexican wave-like cascades called as “shimmering.”
“Shimmering starts at distinct spots on the nest surface and then spreads across the nest within a split second whereby hundreds of individual bees flip their abdomens upwards…shimmering creates a ‘shelter zone’ of around 50 cm that prevents predatory wasps from foraging bees directly from the nest surface,” according to the article published on Plos One.
With this clever move, the shimmering seems to be a key defense strategy that sustain the Giant honeybees’ open-nesting lifestyle.
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]]>Both bees and wasps both have black and yellow stripes on their bodies. However, the body of a bee is usually slightly thicker and covered with hair that helps it catch more pollen. Wasps have slender bodies without any hair.
Bees will sting a human only when attacked and can only sting once. This is because they usually have a barbed sting that gets caught in the human skin and gets pulled off when they try to escape, at which point they die. Wasps, on the other hand, might sting humans as soon as they notice them and can do it multiple times because of a smooth sting that doesn’t get stuck.
Bees only feed on pollen and nectar. Wasps, on the other hand, feed on sugars from whatever source they can. Sometimes, it is flower nectar and honeydew, and other times, it is your sweet drink of ice cream. On top of that, they also feed on larvae of other insects.
Out of 20,000 species of bees, around 800 of them produce honey. On the other hand, there are thousands of wasps, 17 of which can produce honey. But while bees produce an abundance of honey, wasps make small amounts that are only sufficient for their needs.
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]]>The post These Honeybees Repel Hornets By Creating “Shimmering” Effects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Since they are in the open, they are directly exposed to a wide range of predators, specifically to birds and wasps including hornets. This predatory burden seemingly gave rise to the evolution of a series of defense strategies. They show very well coordinated Mexican wave-like cascades called as “shimmering.”
“Shimmering starts at distinct spots on the nest surface and then spreads across the nest within a split second whereby hundreds of individual bees flip their abdomens upwards…shimmering creates a ‘shelter zone’ of around 50 cm that prevents predatory wasps from foraging bees directly from the nest surface,” according to the article published on Plos One.
With this clever move, the shimmering seems to be a key defense strategy that sustain the Giant honeybees’ open-nesting lifestyle.
The post These Honeybees Repel Hornets By Creating “Shimmering” Effects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
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