The bumblebees fought off the larger Asian hornets every time in altercations seen by researchers.
Bumblebees have developed a remarkably successful method for fighting off Asian hornets, new research shows.
Researchers witnessed more than 120 such attacks and found the bumblebees fought off the hornets every time. "We recorded hornets doing the same thing to bumblebees but with the surprising difference that, in our observations, they were entirely unsuccessful."In the study, published in the journal Communications Biology, commercially reared bumblebee colonies were placed at 12 locations across the province of Pontevedra, Spain, with varying local Asian hornet densities.
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