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Japanese Honeybees

  • May 16, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Japanese honeybees’ stingers aren’t big enough to stab the Asian giant hornet, a much larger bug that raids bee colonies. Instead, they’ll swarm around the predator bug in a cluster so ferocious, the heat it generates — up to 117 degrees Fahrenheit — literally cooks the hornet!

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