I intuitively felt that this was a specialized defensive behavior against ants," Morii, a behavioral ecologist at the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba, Japan, wrote...
Many different bees and other eusocial insects have evolved particular defensive behaviors to protect their hives from predators.
He found no papers describing a defense in which bees use their wings to actually hit the intruder ants, meaning this behavior was new to science.
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