Shimmering_bees_drive_hornet_away.ogv
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Description Shimmering bees drive hornet away.ogv |
English:
This video shows two 130 cm-wide nests of the Asian Giant Honeybee
Apis dorsata
attached to a thick branch of a tree in
Assam
. The nest in the foreground displays shimmering: a
Mexican-wave
-like, spiral or circular, pattern. The ‘mouth’ zone of the nest is at the left bottom rim, where forager bees depart, arrive and dance. In contrast, the bees in the periphery are quiescent, but in response to hornet attacks, they produce shimmering.
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Date | Published: September 10, 2008 | ||
Source | Movie S1 of Kastberger G, Schmelzer E, Kranner I (2008) Social Waves in Giant Honeybees Repel Hornets. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3141. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003141 | ||
Author | Kastberger G, Schmelzer E, Kranner I (2008) Social Waves in Giant Honeybees Repel Hornets. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3141. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003141 | ||
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media of the day
for 29 February 2012. It was captioned as follows:
Other languages
Македонски:
Џиновски медоносни пчели
прават
мексикански бранови
за да истераат стршлени од нивното гнездо.
中文(简体):
Apis dorsal
的波浪舞。
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