Honeybees Cook Hornets
As the image says, Asian giant hornets and Japanese honeybees are no friends. The hornets rob honeybee colonies and there was little the honeybees could do about it. But honeybees evolved a strange defensive tactic – forming a ball of bees around the hornets, quivering their flight muscles (which creates intense heat) until the hornets literally drop dead.
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