#murderball

Murderball!!

I play this and it's amazing, deffo recommend watching or giving it a go if you get the chance! Watch it in the Paralympics on the 29th of August and you won't be disappointed

"murderball"

wheelchair rugby european championship starts tomorrow and you can stream the matches on the Channel 4 youtube !!

I'm very excited, I love watching WCR live :) I'll possibly be live-blogging it (I'll find a tag people can blacklist if you don't care lol) I'd definitely recommend tuning in its a great sport to watch! Not too hard to pick up and even if you don't know the rules it's very impressive.

FULL EPISODE: AOTS! - The Underground Show (12.26.05)

[The Asian giant hornet] often attacks honey bee hives to obtain the adults, pupae and larvae as food for their own larvae. The hornets can devastate a colony of honeybees, especially if it is the introduced western honey bee; a single hornet can kill as many as 40 bees per minute. The honeybees' stings are ineffective because the hornets are five times the size and heavily armored. Only a few hornets (under 50) can exterminate a colony of tens of thousands of bees in a few hours.

Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the uncoordinated defenses of a honeybee colony, the Japanese honeybee has an effective strategy. When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honeybee hive, she emits specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the Japanese honeybees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so gather near the entrance of the nest and set up a trap, keeping the entrance open. This permits the hornet to enter the hive. As the hornet enters, a mob of hundreds of bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and preventing it from reacting effectively. The bees violently vibrate their flight muscles in much the same way as they do to heat the hive in cold conditions. This raises the temperature in the ball to the critical temperature of 46 °C (115 °F). In addition, the exertions of the honeybees raise the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ball. At that concentration of CO2, they can tolerate up to 50 °C (122 °F), but the hornet cannot survive the combination of high temperature and high carbon dioxide level. Some bees do die along with the intruder, much as happens when they attack other intruders with their stings, but by killing the hornet scout, they prevent it from summoning reinforcements that would wipe out the entire colony.