Send us a text Subscribe if you love science, chaos, and being mildly afraid of your backyard. 🐝 In this Swarms Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole uncover facts around the infamous “killer bees”—a.k.a. Africanized honeybees. Spoiler: they don’t look scary, but they’ll chase you, sting in overwhelming numbers, and sometimes even wait above water for you to come up for air. But is the fear justified? 🐝 What makes Africanized honeybees so aggressive? 🌎 How did a 1950s experiment i...
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Send us a text Subscribe if you love science, chaos, and being mildly afraid of your backyard. 🐝 In this Swarms Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole uncover facts around the infamous “killer bees”—a.k.a. Africanized honeybees. Spoiler: they don’t look scary, but they’ll chase you, sting in overwhelming numbers, and sometimes even wait above water for you to come up for air. But is the fear justified? 🐝 What makes Africanized honeybees so aggressive? 🌎 How did a 1950s experiment i...
Swarms: Why Killer Bees Are So Scary (and So Misunderstood)
Wildly Curious
15 minutes
2 weeks ago
Swarms: Why Killer Bees Are So Scary (and So Misunderstood)
Send us a text Subscribe if you love science, chaos, and being mildly afraid of your backyard. 🐝 In this Swarms Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole uncover facts around the infamous “killer bees”—a.k.a. Africanized honeybees. Spoiler: they don’t look scary, but they’ll chase you, sting in overwhelming numbers, and sometimes even wait above water for you to come up for air. But is the fear justified? 🐝 What makes Africanized honeybees so aggressive? 🌎 How did a 1950s experiment i...
Wildly Curious
Send us a text Subscribe if you love science, chaos, and being mildly afraid of your backyard. 🐝 In this Swarms Minisode, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole uncover facts around the infamous “killer bees”—a.k.a. Africanized honeybees. Spoiler: they don’t look scary, but they’ll chase you, sting in overwhelming numbers, and sometimes even wait above water for you to come up for air. But is the fear justified? 🐝 What makes Africanized honeybees so aggressive? 🌎 How did a 1950s experiment i...
