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Post by karl on Jul 25, 2020 8:12:42 GMT
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Post by Elizabeth on Jul 25, 2020 15:45:21 GMT
Hornets are used to that area right? So I'm guessing bees have been aware of them and are ready to go after them together. But when hornets reached the U.S., the bees here didn't know about them and weren't prepared. Then were slaughtered :/
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Post by karl on Jul 25, 2020 18:40:12 GMT
Hornets are used to that area right? So I'm guessing bees have been aware of them and are ready to go after them together. But when hornets reached the U.S., the bees here didn't know about them and weren't prepared. Then were slaughtered :/
Yes, the Japanese bees have learned to adapt to them. Both European and American bees react by going on frontal attack, which doesn't work. The way they killed the hornet, by covering it until it was killed by the heat, only worked because the Japanese bees can endure heat better than the hornets. I have no idea if that's the case for American/European bees.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jul 25, 2020 18:56:14 GMT
Hornets are used to that area right? So I'm guessing bees have been aware of them and are ready to go after them together. But when hornets reached the U.S., the bees here didn't know about them and weren't prepared. Then were slaughtered :/ Yes, the Japanese bees have learned to adapt to them. Both European and American bees react by going on frontal attack, which doesn't work. The way they killed the hornet, by covering it until it was killed by the heat, only worked because the Japanese bees can endure heat better than the hornets. I have no idea if that's the case for American/European bees.
I wonder how long it took them to learn to do that and if they tried other things first. Maybe eventually the European and American bees will try other methods but who knows if they will and how long it'll take them to get to something that works. |
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Post by karl on Jul 25, 2020 19:48:36 GMT
Yes, the Japanese bees have learned to adapt to them. Both European and American bees react by going on frontal attack, which doesn't work. The way they killed the hornet, by covering it until it was killed by the heat, only worked because the Japanese bees can endure heat better than the hornets. I have no idea if that's the case for American/European bees.
I wonder how long it took them to learn to do that and if they tried other things first. Maybe eventually the European and American bees will try other methods but who knows if they will and how long it'll take them to get to something that works.
According to the narrator, the Japanese bees have spent millions of years adapting to the hornets. So Western bees have some catching up to do.
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