Talk:Apis cerana japonica

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A fact from Apis cerana japonica appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know
- ... that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees %28pictured%29?
A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/May.

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DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF Apis cerana F. AGAINST PREDATORY WASPS by Dharam Pal Abrol

Feel free to add more, or just incorporate the references. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 10:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anything else out there besides their response to the giant hornet? That's an interesting bit of trivia, but Japan does have a honey industry, if dwarfed by western areas, and a species it's really not getting any entymology respect (?) by being treated as a stub for the legendary hornet. 74.218.61.152 (talk) 19:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Ball"

Should "ball" necessarily be in quotes? I mean, if the reason it's in quotes is because the ball is not always a ball, I think it's kind of a sensible implication to make. Though, if you want to emphasize that it isn't exactly a ball, maybe a better way of wording the first use of would be like this:

As the hornet enters the nest, a group of approximately five hundred honeybees surround it, forming a large ball or clump, completely covering the hornet and preventing it from moving.

Or simply using "clump" instead of "ball"... unless it's that the mass the bees form is necessarily roughly spherical. Then maybe "forming a large, roughly spherical clump". I suppose I just don't like the use of quotation marks here because it's reminiscent of scare quotes; though it's pretty clear that's not the intention here... and WP:MOS doesn't have an obvious application to this situation. I dunno, just a suggestion anyhow. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 11:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i removed the quotes, as they're superfluous. the bees are manifestly forming a ball, regardless of whether or not it's perfectly spherical. pauli133 (talk) 13:48, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move

I'm not particularly familiar in article naming for anthropods, but would it be better to redirect to Japanese Honeybee? It's a fairly distinct name, and is far more readable than Apis cerana japonica. Any objections? Iciac (talk) 08:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that it's any more common. I've made it a redirect, though. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 11:50, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]