<div dir="auto">So, several avenues present.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Import (bee visa) Japanese bees to teach American bees.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Import (bee immigration) Japanese bees to supplant American bees.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Send American bees to Japan to study Japanese bee methods in context.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All this assumes some notion of bee culture transfer as opposed to genetics...something recently about corvids teaching...if so, well....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Birds do it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">C</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 22:15 David Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu">desmith@santafe.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Note: Some beehives have a defense, they clump around the scout in a buzzing ball, and though many in the ball lose their heads, collectively they raise the temperature of the hornet scout and "cook" it. It doesn't release enough pheromone such that the other hornets follow up.<br>
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All, do find internet videos on this. There are several. I think I sent them around some months ago, and couldn\u2019t bring myself to spam again with them.<br>
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I sent them to friends with titles like \u201clesson in democracy\u201d.<br>
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Japanese bees can do this. American (naturalized European) bees cannot. This all seems very depressing, in addition to its real damage.<br>
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