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Bees kill 63 endangered penguins in South Africa
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Black" data-source="post: 7347" data-attributes="member: 200"><p>In this story from the weekend reported by the Guardian (and others) the culprits are reported to be Cape honeybees (<em>A.m.capensis</em>) That's surprising as they are supposed to be a docile lot, but they are known to hybridise with <em>scutellata</em>, just not there. For those who don't know this bee, Cape honeybee workers are known to produce maybe as much as 10% diploid worker brood, whereas in other bee strains workers only produce a little haploid brood.</p><p></p><p>Moved to other parts of S Africa Cape bees have been seen as 'parasites' in <em>scutellata</em> colonies, their queen eventually taking over the colony, but even so I didn't think they were agressive. It just goes to show a) bees don't read books and, b) 'docile' is a relative term, and any bees can be nasty in the right circumstances.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the penguins were members of an endangered species. <em>#####</em>!</p><p></p><p><strong>[URL unfurl="true"]https://is.gd/3l4nTK[/URL]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Black, post: 7347, member: 200"] In this story from the weekend reported by the Guardian (and others) the culprits are reported to be Cape honeybees ([I]A.m.capensis[/I]) That's surprising as they are supposed to be a docile lot, but they are known to hybridise with [I]scutellata[/I], just not there. For those who don't know this bee, Cape honeybee workers are known to produce maybe as much as 10% diploid worker brood, whereas in other bee strains workers only produce a little haploid brood. Moved to other parts of S Africa Cape bees have been seen as 'parasites' in [I]scutellata[/I] colonies, their queen eventually taking over the colony, but even so I didn't think they were agressive. It just goes to show a) bees don't read books and, b) 'docile' is a relative term, and any bees can be nasty in the right circumstances. Oh, and the penguins were members of an endangered species. [I]#####[/I]! [B][URL unfurl="true"]https://is.gd/3l4nTK[/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]
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