Japanese honeybees slap ants to defend their hive

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Japanese honeybees slap ants to defend their hive

New Scientist
Jul 18 2024

Ants invade honeybee nests, seeking to steal honey, prey on eggs or kill worker bees. Footage from a high-speed camera shows that guard bees, positioned near a nest’s entrance, tilt their bodies towards an approaching ant, and then flutter their wings while they pivot away. A successful hit sends the ant flying.

Learn more ➤ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439789-watch-bees-defend-their-nest-by-slapping-ants-with-their-wings/...

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. I know what I'm going to do.

Download an app to my iPhone that can identify the tune in the soundtrack.

Thanks, and good morning.

[jmbar2]

2. This is great! Joe Biden is our Honeybee!

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3. I'd be curious as to what you find out.

I'm a little surprised that New Scientist didn't include the credit in their description.

It reminds me a bit of The Third Man theme:

Anton Karas - Harry Lime Theme (Third Man, The; Der Dritte Mann)
Youtube / aristandar

And good morning to you.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. It's got this late 1940s pre-rockabilly vibe.

Have you ever seen the great, great movie "The Atomic Cafe"? A lot of the soundtrack sounds like that.

The Atomic Cafe (1982) – Re-Release Trailer

Kino Lorber
79K subscribers

62,302 views Jul 16, 2018
This documentary cult classic returns to theaters in a sparkling 4K digital restoration created by IndieCollect starting August 1 at Film Forum in New York.

Armageddon has never been so darkly funny as in The Atomic Cafe. This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Taken together, these sources cheerily instruct the public on how to live in the Atomic Age, how to survive a nuclear attack (!) ... and how to fight and win a nuclear war. As a U.S. Army training film advises, "Viewed from a safe distance, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man." Returning to theaters in a sparkling 4K digital restoration created by IndieCollect, The Atomic Cafe is an absurdist blast from the past that would be downright laughable if it weren’t so eerily relevant to our fake news present.

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5. Good description.

I haven't seen "Atomic Cafe", but it's now on my short list. Thank you.

Justwatch shows it streaming on Tubi (free with ads) and a few other channels:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-atomic-cafe

Wikipedia The Atomic Cafe :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atomic_Cafe

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. From that Wiki:

Soundtrack

Atomic Cafe: Radioactive Rock 'n Roll, Blues, Country & Gospel

Soundtrack album

Released: 1982
Genre: Soundtrack, rock and roll, blues, country, gospel
Length: 53:22
Label: Rounder Records
Producer: Charles Wolfe, The Archives Project (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty)

Atomic Cafe: Radioactive Rock 'n Roll, Blues, Country & Gospel is the soundtrack to the 1982 film The Atomic Cafe. A vinyl LP record was released in 1982 by Rounder Records. Some of the credits for the record include: co-produced by Charles Wolfe, The Archives Project (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty), album cover artwork by Dennis Pohl, cover design by Mel Green, and booklet text by Charles Wolfe.

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7. Very nice.

I'm about to watch it and I'm going to keep that Wiki open to use as a reference. Not something that would have occurred to me. Well, maybe it would have, right about the time the movie's almost over.


Thank you.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thank you for the bee video. They work really hard throughout their lives. Interesting.