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  1. I did not get a picture BUT I saw a bald faced hornet (queen?) in the back yard this evening while I was watering the vegetables! I've never seen one of those in real life before! They look so cool. Very distinct and clean face markings. And big.

    #insects #hornets #gardening #seattle

  2. 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

  3. I am beset. There are #hornets building a nest behind the shutter of my kitchen window, which is but a pace from the back door I have to use to put out recycling. Do they pick any of the other four windows in the back of the house, which I wouldn't care about? No.

    And there are #YellowJackets building a nest under the eaves near the front faucet, which, again, I have to walk by to get into the house. Again, there's almost the whole rest of the house, where I wouldn't notice, but do they choose that? No.

  4. NBA'de Charlotte Hornets, Utah Jazz'ı deplasmanda 150-95 mağlup ederek 55 sayı farkla tarihi bir galibiyet aldı! Bu sonuç, Hornets'ın etkileyici performansını gözler önüne serdi.

    🚩 #NBA #Hornets #Jazz #Basketbol #Maç

  5. 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