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HoleInTheRoof said:
Youtube'd "murder hornets" the other day and ended up on a video where they had cameras inside of a bees nest, and a hornet infiltrated (not a M.H.) and they said he was leaving his pheromones so he and his buddies could find the nest later and take it over. The hornet was just was just walking around farting his pheromones out or whatever the the bees were busy doing bee ****, not paying him an ounce of attention (or so it seemed). Suddenly, one bee approached it and the hornet grabbed that bee, and IMMEDIATELY the bees smothered the hornet. But they didn't have stingers to kill it. Instead, hundreds of bees smothered the hornet and all simultaneously started shaking. They had infrared cameras in there and what the bees were doing was shaking to increase the temperature of the hornet. You see, the bees can sustain temperatures up to 118F. The hornet, however, could only survive temperatures up to 115F. So these intelligent damned bees somehow knew to surround this guy and shake and when the temperature was around 117, and the hornet died, they stopped and returned to business as usual.

I realize this has nothing to do with the murder hornets but I found this sooooooo fascinating that I've told this story to like 10 people since I saw the video.

It's like we as humans take for granted how smart we are and how were the most evolved creatures on earth, and can be dismissive to animals/insects.... but these little bees (1) knew they could kill the hornet that way, (2) all instinctively attacked simultaneously, like they somehow communicated that to each other and responded as once.

It was amazing, IMO.

But then again, I can be easily amused.
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The scientific question is: is this a learned or innate behavior by bees. Have the bees that have lived generations alongside these bastards passed this information down over time, while our American bees have not acquired this defense mechanism and will be hurt tremendously until they figure it out, OR is this an instinctual, evolutionary knowledge that all honeybees are programmed to do?

Guess we will find out.
 
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GojiraVol17 said:
Yeah they’ll encourage some of the lower rated players to look around because then we’ll be in play for bigger fish during the season most likely.
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i don't think there's any way around that at this point. simply not enough spots for as many prospects we may have interest in and vice versa.

i mean assuming the 10th goes as planned, we're at 21, and you know we're still after Mims, Mondon, Terrion Arnold, Pennington, Trinity Bell, Jr. Colson, Dawkins.....among others.
 
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SoilVol said:
The scientific question is: is this a learned or innate behavior by bees. Have the bees that have lived generations alongside these bastards passed this information down over time, while our American bees have not acquired this defense mechanism and will be hurt tremendously until they figure it out, OR is this an instinctual, evolutionary knowledge that all honeybees are programmed to do?

Guess we will find out.
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I watched the show a few years ago and it was something local to those honeybees that deal with them on a regular. American honeybees will be slaughtered...man will have to intervene to protect them.

Or honey prices are about to sky rocket.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i don't think there's any way around that at this point. simply not enough spots for as many prospects we may have interest in and vice versa.

i mean assuming the 10th goes as planned, we're at 21, and you know we're still after Mims, Mondon, Terrion Arnold, Pennington, Trinity Bell, Jr. Colson, Dawkins.....among others.
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I know this becomes a discussion every year but can we back count any or are we at a hard 25 this year
 
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jakez4ut said:
i don't think there's any way around that at this point. simply not enough spots for as many prospects we may have interest in and vice versa.

i mean assuming the 10th goes as planned, we're at 21, and you know we're still after Mims, Mondon, Terrion Arnold, Pennington, Trinity Bell, Jr. Colson, Dawkins.....among others.
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I'd love to know how many they want at each position. You have to assume some of the currently committed DBs will probably be encouraged to look around. Rucker and Wilcoxson are obviously safe, but some of the lower rated ones may become casualties. Hate to see it for the kids, but this is what recruiting has become.
 
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Weezer said:
I'd love to know how many they want at each position. You have to assume some of the currently committed DBs will probably be encouraged to look around. Rucker and Wilcoxson are obviously safe, but some of the lower rated ones may become casualties. Hate to see it for the kids, but this is what recruiting has become.
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well, better to find out in spring or early summer vs. December...or February................if you're looking for silver linings.

and if they keep up wiht anything......they have to know w/out even being told.......that it's at least possible they could be told to look.

i'd be a little surprised if a couple aren't already looking to be honest.
 
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Weezer said:
If we add three on the 10th, we'll be at 21 commits. If that happens, I can see some kids getting encouraged to look around. Things will certainly get interesting as the staff starts prioritizing who they really want in this class.
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And the haters will be like, "see, I told you they couldn't hang on to all of them."
 
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OrangenSC said:
And the haters will be like, "see, I told you they couldn't hang on to all of them."
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They can say what they want if we're processing lower rated guys to get higher rated guys.

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HoleInTheRoof said:
Youtube'd "murder hornets" the other day and ended up on a video where they had cameras inside of a bees nest, and a hornet infiltrated (not a M.H.) and they said he was leaving his pheromones so he and his buddies could find the nest later and take it over. The hornet was just was just walking around farting his pheromones out or whatever the the bees were busy doing bee ****, not paying him an ounce of attention (or so it seemed). Suddenly, one bee approached it and the hornet grabbed that bee, and IMMEDIATELY the bees smothered the hornet. But they didn't have stingers to kill it. Instead, hundreds of bees smothered the hornet and all simultaneously started shaking. They had infrared cameras in there and what the bees were doing was shaking to increase the temperature of the hornet. You see, the bees can sustain temperatures up to 118F. The hornet, however, could only survive temperatures up to 115F. So these intelligent damned bees somehow knew to surround this guy and shake and when the temperature was around 117, and the hornet died, they stopped and returned to business as usual.

I realize this has nothing to do with the murder hornets but I found this sooooooo fascinating that I've told this story to like 10 people since I saw the video.

It's like we as humans take for granted how smart we are and how were the most evolved creatures on earth, and can be dismissive to animals/insects.... but these little bees (1) knew they could kill the hornet that way, (2) all instinctively attacked simultaneously, like they somehow communicated that to each other and responded as once.

It was amazing, IMO.

But then again, I can be easily amused.
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I enjoyed it...I love kewl stuff like this. I go down youtube rabbit holes like that all the time.
 
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