Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Bees smother enemies to death

Honey bees can smother their enemies to death by swarming them, researchers report.

The discovery means that bees have three ways of dispatching their enemies: by stinging, which for a bee means suicide; by raising the other creature's body temperature, or thermo-balling; and by asphyxiation.

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