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The Japanese Giant Hornet - A Science Saga

In 1877, people in Japan imported European honeybees for apiculture. They quickly found that the Japanese giant hornet was a voracious predator. A group of like 30 hornets could wipe out thousands of European honeybee colonies. So how come there's this Japanese honeybee that's been here for so long? Like how do they survive in the face of this predator?

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