Happy WorldBeeDay! Did you know that bees can cook invaders alive by activating their flight muscles to radiate heat?
—each one a red-eyed giant next to the hairy little bees. Each strike took just an instant, the predators snatching bees out of the air and then flying away with their victims, which would be carved up later and fed to the hornets’ own ravenous larvae.is no match for a European hornet. Up to an inch and a half long, the hornet is equipped with powerful mandibles capable of shearing smaller insects to pieces.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
This is just one facet of western honeybee behavior that Arndt has captured in new detail over the past two years. He has been photographing wildlife for 30 years, but he’s no insect expert, so he partnered with Tautz.To guard their nest from predatory hornets, the bees go into a defensive stance at the entrance to the cavity. They raise their front legs and open their mandibles.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
Over six months, Arndt shot more than 60,000 pictures, creating a portrait of wild honeybees unlike anything seen before.as they studied bees in the wild, Arndt got hooked. But he realized that he’d never truly unlock the insects’ secrets while watching them in an artificial box engineered by humans for the purpose of extracting honey. What he really wanted was to photograph a natural nest.
Over six months, Arndt shot more than 60,000 pictures, creating a portrait of wild honeybees unlike anything seen before.
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