Bees vs Crows

[Taro Toporific]

Bees Enlisted to Attack Crows in Tokyo
(National Geographic) via BB
... "We noticed that the bees swarmed around crows that were taking offerings from white plates left on the outdoor altar of a shrine in Ginza," ...more Bzzzz ....

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[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]Problems in the Air[/SIZE]

. . . in Japan now, where some animal lovers are joining forces to fight off... animals? You see, one group of birds has been bullying another in the capital city of Tokyo, eating their eggs and driving them away. But protectors of the avian underdog are hoping some insects will offer a solution. Kyung Lah literally reports on the birds and the bees.

. . . There are no living birds for Naoya Masuda to show us. He only has wooden replicas of the bird he loves most: the tern. A cousin of the seagull, terns are listed as vulnerable in Japan, where they nest after the long migration from Australia and New Zealand. The terns have lost their nesting sites to more and more construction in Tokyo. They also face another threat: crows, a population that's boomed thanks to an ample food supply of city garbage from humans. The terns laid eggs, but crows started eating them, says Masuda. Then these eggs were abandoned by their mothers. He built shelters, tried to scare off the crows]Experts say bees attack crows[/B], or anything dark and shiny, to protect their hives. The urban beekeepers heard about Masuda's problem and thought their bees could be used to protect the terns from the crows and built Musada his own hive . . . more

Maybe they need bee hives on top of the Tokyo garbage bins too.

[omae mona]

Experts say bees attack crows, or anything dark and shiny, to protect their hives.

You guys have just given me an idea for an experiment involving those loud uyoku vans!! Thanks.

[Taro Toporific]

You guys have just given me an idea for an experiment involving those loud uyoku vans!!

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[Charles]

You guys have just given me an idea for an experiment involving those loud uyoku vans!! Thanks.

Hah.. you reminded me of a story by one of my favorite authors, Rudy Rucker.. A genetic engineer is outraged at his neighbor, who always fires up his noisy gasoline powered weed whacker and leaf blowers early on sunday mornings when he's trying to sleep. So he recombines some DNA from psychedelic-venom poison toads into some wasps, and adds some other genetic mods to make the wasps attracted to loud noises. Then he releases them one sunday morning...

[Iraira]

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Thanks, I just got beyond dizzy and threw up curry rice all over the monitor.