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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is similar to what happens with Asian giant hornets (those murder hornets that made it to the US a couple years ago)-- when a scout finds a honeybee hive it brings back a troop that goes in and just murders everything in sight, and with European bees there's nothing they can do. Meanwhile the Asian bees know to lure the scout into the hive and then surround it with a bunch of bees, creating a bee ball. Then they vibrate and heat themselves up, and since the bees can withstand temps a few degrees higher than the hornet, they manage to overheat it to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Native_honey_bees

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Me picturing this animated.

#NatureIsFuckingMetal

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Raid boss tactics

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

It’s like the time I had a sorcerer NPC cast fireball on themself to get a total party kill.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

Trump voters in a nutshell

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something something never lupus

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

My life is just one big House MD meme

[–] strcrssd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What scifi media is that clipped from?

[–] anas@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My 4 AM brain thinks it’s from Ahsoka

[–] strcrssd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] idogoodjob@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It's definitely star wars. Probably skeleton crew if not Ahsoka

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

High temperature isn’t there to kill pathogens. Instead it’s there to help the immune system, because biochemistry (chemistry in general) works better in higher temperatures.

Source: “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7812885/

Temperatures during a fever can go high enough to damage cells and interferes with normal functions, it also interferes with viral, bacterial and fungal replication and other mechanics.

Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures with many proteins only functioning well within very narrow temperature ranges.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures

I was referring to Arrhenius’ equation. Of course that doesn’t apply anymore when you reach denaturation temperatures. Very high fevers are deadly.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's there to help the immune system do what?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

To help the immune system do what?