Bees Enlisted to Attack Crows in Tokyo


	Bees Enlisted to Attack Crows in Tokyo

wildcat

7-14-2008 9:27 PM

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bees, crows, tokyo

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7-15-2008 12:33 AM

bignosemousie

I once saw a bird being chased by a swarm of bees. I wasn't really sure what was happening until the bird ruffled it's feathers in flight, and a bunch of bees fell off. Then the big swarm followed.

7-15-2008 2:27 AM

hitchhiker08

Oh sure - soon they'd need some help to exterminate the bees?!

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After years of being attacked by crows, a colony of seabirds nesting in <A href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime/tokyo.html" linkindex="45">Tokyo</A> is getting an unlikely ally: the tiny <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/honeybee.html" linkindex="46">honeybee</A>.
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Conservationists hope bees will repel the crows, based on the insects' tendency to attack anything dark-colored that approaches their hives.
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This year beehives from rural areas were relocated to the top of a large water-treatment facility near Tokyo's international airport, where as many as 4,000 birds known as little terns nest after a long migration from Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
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Although they are not endangered internationally, little terns are listed as "vulnerable" in Japan's Red Data Book of threatened species.
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That's because the terns' nesting sites in the country are being destroyed by construction work and other human activities, so the birds are considered potentially at risk in the future.
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The terns near the airport have long been victims of Tokyo's crows. 
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