{"id":116919,"date":"2020-12-10T04:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/bees-witnessed-using-tools-in-nature-for-the-first-time-and-its-really-gross"},"modified":"2020-12-10T04:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:23:29","slug":"bees-witnessed-using-tools-in-nature-for-the-first-time-and-its-really-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/bees-witnessed-using-tools-in-nature-for-the-first-time-and-its-really-gross","title":{"rendered":"Bees Witnessed Using Tools in Nature For The First Time\u2026 And It\u2019s Really Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bees-witnessed-using-tools-in-nature-for-the-first-time-and-its-really-gross.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Asian honeybee (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apis_cerana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Apis cerana<\/em><\/a>) isn\u2019t just on the look-out for flowers. In some areas, it\u2019s also on the prowl for poo.<\/p>\n<p>When threatened by a species of giant hornet (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vespa_soror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Vespa soror<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 closely related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-what-you-really-need-to-know-about-those-murder-hornets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murder hornet<\/a> \u2014 workers will fly off to collect fresh animal faeces to smear carefully around the entrance of their nest, according to a study on bee hives in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still not clear how this dung actually protects the colony, but in the field, it appears to stop scouting hornets from chewing through the nest and causing mass slaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian honeybee (Apis cerana) isn\u2019t just on the look-out for flowers. In some areas, it\u2019s also on the prowl for poo. When threatened by a species of giant hornet (Vespa soror) \u2014 closely related to the murder hornet \u2014 workers will fly off to collect fresh animal faeces to smear carefully around the entrance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}