Me saw this prog on discovery ch about the giant hornets which
invade a bee nest. Hell it is interesting to watch that such small
ceratures have high intelligence like humans. before the giant
hornets (most aggressive specieis) invade a bee nest, they even
send out reconnaisance troops to scan their target. However, if one
of the hornets attempts to invade a bee hive, several hundred of
the bees quickly form a compact ball around the hornet to stop it.
After about 20 minutes the hornet is dead, although the bees do not
sting, bite, crush, or suffocate it. Why, then, does the hornet
die? The key idea here is that, because the surface temperature of
the bee ball increases after the ball forms, the rate at which
energy is radiated by the ball also increases. All this energy or
heat has to be absorbed by the hornet and the hornet cannot
withstand all this rate of energy and it dies.
Very interesting.
a video here shwing the the chaos:
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mms://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv
