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Honey bees (Apis cerana) use animal feces as a tool to defend colonies against group attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror)

Honey bees (genus Apis) are well known for the impressive suite of nest defenses they have evolved to protect their abundant stockpiles of food and the large colonies they sustain. In Asia, honey bees have evolved under tremendous predatory pressure from social wasps in the genus Vespa, the most for...

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Autores principales: Mattila, Heather R., Otis, Gard W., Nguyen, Lien T. P., Pham, Hanh D., Knight, Olivia M., Phan, Ngoc T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33296376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242668