Genes associated with hot defensive bee ball in the Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica: Hundreds of Japanese honey bees form a defensive mass known as a “bee ball” around hornets cooking them at exactly 46 degrees Celsius. How? /1 https://t.co/Y6scZl
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RT @KawataMasakado: The Japanese honeybee, shows a specific defensive behavior, known as a “hot defensive bee ball,” We detected rhodopsin…
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Link to the original paper, from @KawataMasakado lab https://t.co/HrGjaLIO6p
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RT @CraigMontell1: A huge group of Japanese honeybees protect themselves from a giant hornet entering the nest by surrounding the invader a…