How do bees get to school?
On the school-buzz.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Queen balling
Sometimes bees will kill their queen this is called queen balling, this is where they squeeze around her in a tight ball until she overheats and dies. This is caused when a beekeeper puts a new queen in.
Here is a good site that talks more about queen balling:
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/queenball.html
Hellish Hornet
The giant hornet from Japan lurks in East Asia's countryside. I know that sounds gross but it's pretty scary too.
The giant hornet grows to about 55 millimetres ( about the size of a adult human's little finger) and has a massive 6 millimeter sting, which carries strong venom that can kill allergic humans. As I've heard, the sting is like having a red hot nail being driven into your skin. OUCH!
This horrible hornet has a hobby of raiding honey bee hives and killing most of the bees inside by chopping their heads off with their powerful jaws.
Marching murderers
One of the strongest ants are the army ants that live in Africa and South America. Like most ants they live in big gangs. When they see something little in their path it had better run because they will kill it, eating them alive.
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Bullet ants
Bullet ant, the ant with the most painful sting, it feels like being shot. Young men from the Satere-Mawe tribe who want to become warriors have to put on a glove with hundreds of the ants, they have to keep it on for 10 minutes. They have to put the glove back on another 20 more times before they are said strong enough to become warriors.
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