Great Balls of Fire

September 30, 2005

I know y’all are just as fascinated with beekeeping as I am, so you will drop everything you are doing to read this article about how some bees burn their enemies to death by surrounding them and wiggling themselves to generate heat. I’m going to show the article to my bees to see if they can learn the trick. I’m pretty sure that next year’s colony is going to spinning little bee poi or building comb in the shape of a Firepod.

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