Apis cerana bees are quite capable of overcoming predatory hornets if they have adequate time to prepare. The bees will encase a hornet in a ball of hundreds of their own bodies, killing it with heat and suffocation (as shown in the video below).
To avoid actually having to go to this trouble, the bees have also perfected a massed warning display, report Benjamin Oldroyd, who studies behavioural genetics and social behaviour at the University of Sydney, and his colleagues. Guard bees at A. cerana hives will simultaneously vibrate their abdomens when a predator approaches, producing both a visual signal and a loud noise.
This, says the team, is the first example of an insect ‘I See You’ (ISY) display. These signals tell the predator not to bother attacking, saving the prey from having to defend against the attack and the predator from wasting its energy on a futile — and possibly dangerous — attempt.
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There were 45 men in the jail cell, the toilet and shower had never been cleaned, the temperature was 110 degrees so you couldn't sleep night or day, there were roaches in the oatmeal, sadistic guards, and everything that was nice. -- Zappa 1969 interview. This had happened during the days of Studio Z in Cucamonga (1963). Frank was released on bail (his father took out a bank loan to pay for it). Frank had been busted for "conspiracy to commit pornography," after making a silly recording of suggestive sexual sounds (giggling edited out) for someone who had asked him to provide a "special" tape recording for a stag night. That someone turned out to be Detective Willis of the San Bernadino Vice Squad. Their conversation was recorded by a hidden microphone and this was used as evidence at Zappa's trial.
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