Bee ball to protect from Asian giant hornet
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Bee ball to protect from Asian giant hornet
The Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) forming a "bee ball" in which two hornets (Vespa simillima xanthoptera) are engulfed and being heated. Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Honshu Island,Japan.
日本語: ニホンミツバチの蜂球。内部にはキイロスズメバチがいる。2005年7月30日投稿者が横浜市内にて撮影
30 July 2005
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Hexapoda (hexapods)
- Insecta (insects)
- Pterygota (winged insects)
- Neoptera (neopteran)
- Endopterygota (endopterygotes)
- Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, and ants)
- Apocrita (wasp)
- Aculeata
- Vespoidea (Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies)
- Vespidae (yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps)
- Vespa
- Vespa mandarinia (Asian giant hornet)
- Panarthropoda
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