October 4th, 2005 @ 3:23 am
Balls of Fire
Balls of Fire: Bees carefully cook invaders to death: Science News Online, Sept. 24, 2005
Honeybees mob an invader wasp, revving up their body heat until the attacker dies.
At least two species of honeybees there, the native Apis cerana and the introduced European honeybee, Apis mellifera, engulf a wasp in a living ball of defenders and heat the predator to death.
apparently they shiver their wing muscles, heating their body temperature immensly
apparently i wrote this a while back, but it got saved as a draft instead of being published
