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  1. We've had multiple European hornets at the bird bath today. I don't often see them but it's really dry out so water is getting scarce. I'm willing to share as long as they keep their stinger to themselves.

    #hornets #insects #nature

  2. NBA Summer League is where coaches make young players work on specific skills under game conditions without regard to how doing so might affect the outcome. There are coaches and GMs from the parent league watching.

    It is also a track meet. The games are a lot of fun to watch. Congratulations, Charlotte!

    flipboard.com/@espn/nba-gradfu

    #NBA #Hornets #Charlotte #SummerLeague

  3. The bees learning to fight off invasive #hornets

    9 February 2024
    Katherine Latham

    "The buff-tailed #bumblebee, one of Europe's most common bumblebee species, is adapting to fight back – thanks to a remarkably successful defence strategy it already has in their evolutionary arsenal.

    "The tactic is simple: when attacked, the bumblebees drop to the ground, taking the hornets down with them. This either causes the hornet to lose its grip, or the bee raises its sting and tussles until the hornet gives up.

    "The buff-tailed bumblebee did not evolve alongside Asian hornets – their native predators include badgers, birds, wasps and spiders – so O'Shea-Wheller describes this as 'an evolutionary coincidence'.

    " 'This defence that already works against their natural predators also works against the hornets,' he says. European honeybees, on the other hand, have no such 'co-evolved system' to protect themselves from these new predators."

    bbc.com/future/article/2024020

    #BeeHugger #BeeHuggah #Bumblebees