A team of researchers has found that Vietnamese beehives collect animals and keep them around the entrance to their structure in an effort to save them from a raid of deadly killing horns.
“Workers collected feces all over our dung iles throats; we also observed them grazing for feces in nearby chicken coops,” the researchers also wrote.
The team surveyed 72 beekeepers in late August Gust, while attacks by killing hornets are frequent. Of those beekeepers, only five have western bee colonies – and those beekeepers did not see poop mounds on their hives, the study says.
But of the remaining 67 beekeepers who kept the eastern bee, 63 reported spots on the front of their hive. Beekeepers had an average of 15 colonies per keeper, and breeders reported seeing an average of 74% pop populations in their colonies. Poop’s ounds appeared after the Hornets’ attacks, and investigators determined they were responding to the attacks.
And it worked – the researchers found that the arts were less likely to be attacked in areas with heavy to moderate spotting, the researchers said.
North American bees do not have the same protection
This is the first research that has reported that these eastern hive workers graze and use animal feces to defend themselves, and the team said there is no evidence that bees use puppies for many others.
But Western honeybees, found in North America, are not as ready for the horned attack of murder as their allies in the East.
“They haven’t had a chance to develop a defense,” Matilla said. “It’s like going into the cold of war.”
Or pop-less.
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