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Yellow-Legged Hornets: Why Bees Stop Foraging
Season 10 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Yellow-Legged Hornets: Why Bees Stop Foraging
A hornet hovers outside a hive. It catches a bee. Then something less obvious happens: fewer bees leave to forage. The flowers may still be there, but the colony's food supply begins to falter. The bees have been watching and are paralyzed by fright.
In this episode of About Bees, Culture, and Curiosity, we follow the yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, from its Asian origins to its European invasion and its first confirmed U.S. detection near Savannah, Georgia, in 2023. What makes…
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