That is cool (heh)

I wonder how long it will take the Foreign bees to develop this ability, a good study for future generations.

Seems like I read about a few years ago.

Seems like I read about This a few years ago.

The heat-balling phenomenon itself is not a new discovery; I also remember hearing about this years ago. The new/publishable stuff is on the differences between the strains of bees and also (if I remember the abstract right) the bees' ability to calibrate their temperature increase to the right level for killing different types of wasps.

I was going to verify this second part by clicking the link again, but on a second attempt it takes me to a different abstract. Strange...

I’d like to know the type of DNA changes that lead to such behavioral adaptation.

I don't get it. The first link seems to be to:


Nuptial feeding of spermless spermatophores in the Hawaiian swordtail cricket, Laupala pacifica (Gryllidae: Triginodiinae)


which seems to have nothing to do with bees.

search in the site "bees heat"

it gives you several hits.


http://www.springerlink.com/(5b4...esresults,3,26;

Hey, maybe we can make giant bees, then put them on a big cage over Alaska or Africa to change extreme temperatures.
Or we can make pets with the same characteristics... or maybe we can have it in our system...
Hehehe.