Sci/Tech Aussie bees fight 'hive wars'

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A genetic analysis of the battlefield fatalities showed that two different species of stingless bees were fighting for control of a single hive.

The attacking swarm eventually took over the hive entirely, placing a new queen of its own in the usurped nest.

The study, published in the American Naturalist journal, suggests that such usurped nests are surprisingly common.

Ecologists from Brisbane, in Australia, and Oxford, in the UK, looked in detail at one particular hive.

"If you stand under the swarm, you can see these bees dropping out of the air."

It was inhabited by a bee species native to the area around Brisbane, called Tetragonula carbonaria.

"They live in the hollows of trees and other cavities, so they're quite common in and around the city," said the study's lead author Dr Paul Cunningham, from the Queensland University of Technology.

 
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Accname

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Stingless bees? What happend to "everything is trying to kill you" australia?
Oh, I get it, they have some kind of poisonous bite, or perhaps they crawl into your body and eat you from the inside or maybe mounted laser cannons?!
 

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Why can't the bees work out their problems diplomatically?
 

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Because they otherwise would have become superhive.
 

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Why can't the bees work out their problems diplomatically?
Because bees aint no pussies. Bees are the real shit. Flying testosterone bombs that would rather kill themselfs in an attempt to ruin your day then live a happy life.
 
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