[ExI] FW: bee free, honey! it's fake

[Dave S]

On Saturday, September 20th, 2025 at 7:30 PM, Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> ... Japanese
> honeybees have evolved a way of killing hornets by forming a ball
> around them and overheating the hornet.

Honey bees use balling to depose unfit queens and kill hive intruders. It was documented in Wedmore's _A Manual of Beekeeping_ in 1932.

http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/queenball.html

-Dave