Very good! When a wasp invades a honeybee hive, they cluster around it, and vibrate their muscles. This heats the wasp enough to weaken it. By vibrating, the bees also use up the oxygen around the wasp. The combination of heat and lack of oxygen kills the wasp.
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Dear Mr. Krampf
They do something called a bee ball, which is when they make a ball around the wasp and vibrate their muscles, the vibrating increases the heat inside the ball and when the wasp gets too hot it will get die.
I also read about it in a book and found out that when a wasp comes near or in the hive, a honeybee will get a drop of honey on its tongue and plaster it on the wasp. The wasp will get too sticky to fly or walk.
From Isaac
Bee ball
When a intruding Wasp or other insect comes too close to the Honeybees hive or does somthing the honeybees don't like, the Workerbees suround the intruding insect in a ball of bees and work their muscles vigorosly to increase the heat inside the ball. People used to think the heat was what killed the intruding insects but scientists did experimints and said it was actually the heat and the increased carbon dioxide levels that killed the intruding insect. The bees also do this to Queens if they think the Queen is a intruder, not responsible enough, or just don't like her.
Rachel age 10
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Maybe they put some substance in the air that makes the wasps go away because they don't like it.
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