The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs
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Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs
#2"[The European honey bee] hasn’t stumbled upon the swarm countermeasure, so the hornet scout inevitably marks a European bee nest and returns with its friends."
Given how devastatingly effective these hornets are, the honey bee swarming behaviour seems to be a completely "over-the-top" reaction that thankfully works for them, although the bees (surely?) have no idea why.
Have any beekeepers been successful teaching European (or any other type of) honey bees new, complex behaviours? If they have, how do newly acquired behavrioual patterns spread beyond the initial target hive?
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#3I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
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#4I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
Yep, looks like they've started doing it. There was a discussion about their adwall plans last week.
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#5Can we just drop wired.com indefinitely?
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#6I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
Yup. Tried for a few seconds to add a custom blocking rule and then immediately left the page. I empathize with content creators, but this reeks of desperation.
Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs
#7"[The European honey bee] hasn’t stumbled upon the swarm countermeasure, so the hornet scout inevitably marks a European bee nest and returns with its friends." Given how devastatingly effective these hornets are, the honey bee swarming behaviour seems to be a completely "over-the-top" reaction that thankfully works for them, although the bees (surely?) have no idea why. Have any beekeepers been successful teaching E…
How do you go about "teaching European honey bees new, complex behaviors"?
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#8"[The European honey bee] hasn’t stumbled upon the swarm countermeasure, so the hornet scout inevitably marks a European bee nest and returns with its friends." Given how devastatingly effective these hornets are, the honey bee swarming behaviour seems to be a completely "over-the-top" reaction that thankfully works for them, although the bees (surely?) have no idea why. Have any beekeepers been successful teaching E…
Uh, they're bees. The workers only live a few months. You're not going to "teach" them anything.
We'd be looking at genetic modification to get new instincts into a particular species of bee.
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#9I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
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#10I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.
Using Firefox, I just reloaded the page and then hit the Reader View button before the popup came back.