Bees battle "hornets from hell"

Scott says: "The film footage on this is REALLY good, and it's hard not to feel bad for the bees in the first half's carnage, and to cheer for them in the second half of the video."

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A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense.

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