Hornets use solar energy

This Eastern bee species belongs to the bumblebee family, which has a special structure on the abdominal cavity that helps capture sunlight, and a special pigment that converts into energy.

Wasps. (Internet photo)

Hornets, scientific names Vespa orientalis live mainly from the east to India. They burrow under the ground to make a nest. Scientists have long known a thing: the sun is getting hotter and the hornets dig more and more.

Research shows that the brown body has very good anti-reflective properties. They split the sun's rays and scattered into many directions.

The yellow abdomen is oval shaped, with a small hole in each of the mounds. These structures cause the bee's epidermis to absorb sunlight into the body.

But the sunshine must go through ' treatment ' and that's because of the pigment. If melanin makes bees brown, xanthopterin makes bee's head and abdomen have bright yellow color.

" Xanthopterin is like an atom that picks up light and converts it into electricity ," said Dr Plotkin, head of the research team working in Britain and Israel.

That may be the reason why wasps, when it is hot, the plow .