Science news articles about 'hornets'

Bees smother hornets in a "bee ball" that kills the giant predators with heat and carbon dioxide.

... of the flower, much as though they were attacking prey. In the current study, they found that hornets were more apt to tackle orchids with their natural scent or dummy honeybees impregnated with the ...

France is in the grip of an invasion by Chinese hornets which could hasten a mysterious decline in honeybee numbers, experts say.

... to run flight tests using an assortment of biofuels. The tests will be run using an F/A-18 Super Hornet. The tests are scheduled to begin taking place at Patuxent River, Md. by spring or summer 2010. ...

... reach Britain. Claude Cohen, president of the Parisian region's apiculture development agency, said a hornet nest had been found this week in the centre of Blanc Mesnil, north-east of the capital. If ...

... . Now, a report reveals for the first time that a species of orchid, which lives on the Chinese island of Hainan, fools its hornet pollinator by issuing a chemical that honeybees use to send an alarm.

... (showing a finely tuned interplay between the shimmering of the bee colony and the retreating of hornets) supports the hypothesis that a co-evolutionary mutual adjustment between prey and predator is ...

... means that the entire at-risk populations of war-torn areas and areas of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa could be treated for one year at roughly the cost of one or two F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets."