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A mob of Cyprian honeybees form a ball around a hornet to suffocate this arch-enemy (Credit: Papachristoforou et al.). More: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12649

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  • They don't suffocate the hornet, apparently the mass of bees all vibrating their muscles raises the temperature of the hornet to a lethal temperature. Weird as fuck.

    "Don't mess with me, I'll warm you up mo'fo'"

  • they do vibrate up to 117 degrees, i just watched the documentary. it said they can tolerate up to 118 degrees and the hornet can only take up to 115 so it dies

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  • it's cypriot not cyprian (that is if you are speaking of cyprus if not my misstake)

  • @iToasterman Lol. I won't die. There's a reason why I have an Epipen with me.

  • @TheReverberatingSoul FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    Dont die D:

  • @iToasterman The stages of an Anaphylactic shock work that way.

  • @iToasterman Because that's Stage 4 of an Anaphylactic shock. Each sting corresponds with the subsequent stage. The first sting generally leads to stage 1, the second stage 2, third, stage 4, fourth, stage 4, and every other time, stage 4. However, I hit stage 3, on the first time, which means that the second time WILL lead to stage 4. And Stage 4 leads to cardiac arrest.

  • @TheReverberatingSoul why cardiac arrest next time?!

  • @iToasterman I guess. I don't know. I didn't feel the pain though, and forcing the straw down my windpipe made me breathe, and I lived. So yeah. What sucks is that the next time I'll get a cardiac arrest, and have 20 minutes to live, unless stabbed on my leg with an Epipen, in which case, woo. Medicine saves.

  • @TheReverberatingSoul That sounds even worse

  • @iToasterman Eh. It's not all that bad. I stopped breathing, so I forced a straw down my windpipe, and could breathe again, because of the space made in it for air to enter. I didn't even feel the straw go down due to my lack of neural transmission. So, it wasn't that bad. It was pretty painless.

  • @TheReverberatingSoul ur alergy, u almost died D:

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