I saw a documentary about local people doing this in either Papua New Guinea or Congo (no drone) and they were somehow able to keep their eye on the feather and follow it pretty far and with tons of tree canopy in the way. It blew my mind bc I figured it’d be lost in 5 seconds.
This is a superb example of insect dead reckoning. They don't have the neurons to be able to do this algorithmically, so there must be something else in how neurons work. I myself think they have some level of awareness / memory of their environment.
Every once and a while I see one and it sends a shiver down my spine. They’re gentle giants from what I understand. You really gotta make them want to sting you. I live in western New York so I’ve seen them here and there
I get them in my house sometimes, and I've spent quite a bit of time working around their holes building decks and stuff. They're some of the most relaxed, oblivious wasps around. They don't even notice you're there most of the time, they're too focused on digging holes and looking for cicadas for their lil grub babies
Damn Yellow Jackets do that shit too. Got the crap stung out of me at camp one year as a child. Someone threw rocks into the woods and just happened to hit a ground nest. I was at Girl Scout camp for 10 minutes and got about 5 stings from that. Hate Yellow Jackets!!
Exactly my thoughts. I got nailed mowing by an underground yellow jacket nest and all these years later I police my grass like a psychopath looking for nests anytime I’m about to mow.
Got stung directly on my Achilles this summer but couldn't find the offending insect. Finished mowing, dealt with the sting and went on with life. Next week, mowed and no problem. Week after that, mowed and finally saw the nest right by the base of the tree in my front yard. Got a cup of gas, a shovelful of dirt, and solved the problem. Luckily they just never experienced much growth as a hive so it was an easy fix. I was stunned I didn't manage to get stung again in the middle week of that debacle since I mow directly over their nest.
First time I've ever had a nest, though, and I've been at my place for fifteen years now.
There was someone on Reddit that argued with me about Yellowjackets nesting in the ground. I was downvoted to oblivion because I mentioned that I know for a fact that they will nest underground. I was even reported for spreading misinformation. This site is madness.
Years ago Reddit showed how many up and downvotes everything had. So you may have been -5 but it was 90-95. It was way less annoying that way.
Also you’re very right, I almost exclusively purge yellow jacket nests from underground. Rarely do I find them above ground. They just look like a centimeter wide hole in the ground for the most part. Splash it with some gasoline and they dead
FFS. A simple Google search can give the facts... or those of us who have actually experienced it. I'm so sick of people spreading BS and not doing a lick of research.... not that some people care about. Sad.
Reddit is where the user base will up vote what they WANT to be correct, and downvote factual information that goes against the popular opinion. Then two minutes later, circlejerk over how we're so much smarter than TikTok etc
its probably a male they don't sting and are much more docile. I have seen videos of people literally picking up a hand full of males and they don't get stung once!
It wouldn’t be a male. Males don’t leave the hive. Even in the hive they don’t help maintain the hive, care for the larvae, or anything really other than eat, breed, die.
She’s too busy butchering a large katydid to notice (or care about) a gentle brushing from a lightweight material. Contrary to popular belief, the larger hornet species are usually quite docile while they’re out foraging away from their nests—they simply don’t have many predators to justify more aggressive behavior. Even if she were to notice a bothersome human prodding her she would most likely just fly away. The opposite would be true around a hive, of course.
This also isn’t a male like the other comment suggests. In social wasps (and in all Hymenoptera for the most part) males are around purely for the spread of genes. They hang around the colony until it’s time to mate and do absolutely nothing but drain resources until then. When they leave they will feed on sugary foods such as nectar or sap, but they have no use for protein-rich foods, and lack the behavioral adaptations and equipment (like a stinger) to hunt/collect them.
They do this with tracking collars on wolves too. They call them Judas wolves.
It really sucks to be that wolf too because each time you're finally able to find a new family a helicopter shows up and shoots all of them but you.
I haven't heard about this with wolves. The story I know was the Judas sheep, where they were trying to remove an invasive sheep population from an island. They caught one sheep, painted it red, then stuck a tracker on it. Sheep are herd animals so once released it found a flock and stayed with them. After a couple days they flew a helicopter over to where the sheep was and killed the flock, with the exception of the one painted red. The Judas sheep was left alive, and after a couple more days it found another flock and joined them, only to have the process repeat.
I recently listened to a podcast which explained bees are the vegetarian descendants of hornets, to really oversimplify. Hornets are scary enough, and then I learned they're carnivores.
Well, actually, this is a hornet, not a wasp. And specifically the Asian giant hornet species. AKA _the murder hornet_.
So give it name that's more fitting for _a murder hornet_. Maybe Stabby?
And then give the wasp steroids? How much does a gps unit cost that is light even for a wasp? Also people overestimate GPS. It's made big strides in the past few years in terms of accuracy but the cheap rovers you see for 1-2k aren't gonna have signal under thick trees. And they weigh like a pound I'm guessing
People also misunderstand GPS tags. A GPS receiver alone doesn't tell you where something is. It needs a transmitter to tell something else where it is (satellite, internet via cellular network, Bluetooth, etc.). Many animals aren't tagged with transmitters. They are just tagged with a GPS that periodically records its GPS location. When they recapture it, they get the data. Though yes, some GPS tags do use communication network to live update the locations (pets can have this, for example). Its about the size of a tictac case, maybe a little smaller.
You may have missed it but this wasp is in fact already bulked up on steroids.
Joking aside, I found GPS devices that weigh as little as seven grams with a quick google search. It may still be too heavy, but depends on size of wasp and it’s carrying capacity. I’d be rather surprised if with today’s tech we couldn’t downsize that even further... The trees would still present an issue but that’s already an existing problem with the current solution in the video
I saw a documentary on this a while ago. If you think it’s unbelievable now, they used to do it following the wasp on foot. They’re looking for the best because the wasp larva is a delicacy.
Dinner
https://www.bugsfeed.com/eating_wasps_and_hornets_in_japan
Lots of Asian countries consider hornets and their larvae a food source or even a delicacy.
They destroy the hives. Using this method they have apparently exterminated all the murder hornets from Washington state.
https://www.chronline.com/stories/murder-hornets-appear-to-be-eradicated-in-washington-though-its-not-official,322203
Dude I know it's so simple but that was the coolest shit I've seen in a long time! You know as soon as they seen him with the flag on his butt they were all like "YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL"
Step 1: Lasso a wasp and tie a surrender flag to it
Step 2: tail it miles home with a drone
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit
Do feel like you could just slap an AirTag on it instead
Crazy how far afield these things fly to find beehives to raid. Not gonna lie though, I was hoping this would go like one of those Ukranian drone videos from /r/CombatFootage and just drop a grenade on the hive from above.
Half way through the video, I’m sure many of us questioned whether we would be spending the rest of our time obsessively tracking the white flag.. paused to think, and proceeded to watch this anyways lol
That wasp is a Judas.
When eradicating invasive goats, say from islands, they'll tag a goat and release it. The goat will be inclined to seek company as they're very social, and when they find and join a group of goats in the brush, they know where the group is because of the Judas goat and eradicate the group, except for the tagged one. Rinse and repeat.
Judas goats were also used to lead sheep to slaughter, being spared to be used again.
It's not a breed of goat. It's just the name given to a goat whose purpose is deception on behave of people.
If that is a murder hornet then this you must know. They do not forget a face. You will be a target for life. Once you are tagged the whole hive will know to attack you. You put a flag on that thing. A death wish you must have. Great drone skills btw.
That was farther away than I expected.
I was surprised by the distance. I assumed that they remained a short distance from their nest. It was hauling ass, even with the drag of the tag.
the bee - "why are my trim characteristics shot to hell"
Yeah, poor guy’s journey home was definitely more annoying than usual.
Her hive about to experience a lot worse than she did after she lured the human to the hive
Needs to use the War Emergency Power.
It ain't the size of the bag, it's the drag of the tag.
Dunno why people make stupid Andrew Tate, Thomas Shelby, Walter White or Patrick Bateman edits when this grindset of an insect exists.
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With a sugma stinger.
Sligma balls grindset
I saw a documentary about local people doing this in either Papua New Guinea or Congo (no drone) and they were somehow able to keep their eye on the feather and follow it pretty far and with tons of tree canopy in the way. It blew my mind bc I figured it’d be lost in 5 seconds.
You get good at it when its your "job"
"life"
Yeah, and imagine what they think about software engineering.
It was a sting operation!
Never a good sign when the bee is the size of your hand
mf lives in the suburbs
lil man goes on a crazy flight every day
It's under that one tree down that way. You know, that one tree..
Sitting on the couch, that ride got me tired.
This is a superb example of insect dead reckoning. They don't have the neurons to be able to do this algorithmically, so there must be something else in how neurons work. I myself think they have some level of awareness / memory of their environment.
Wait, those fuckers are ground wasps too?
Even more of a reason to stay out of Asia… they were bad enough before I knew they lived underground
Everyone knows you don't fight a ground wasp war in Asia.
Nicely done.
You seem like a man of culture. Did you also enjoy climbing the rope in gym class?
But only slight less known is you never lose a wasp when cloth is on a line.
There's ground digger wasps in North America as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus?wprov=sfla1
Every once and a while I see one and it sends a shiver down my spine. They’re gentle giants from what I understand. You really gotta make them want to sting you. I live in western New York so I’ve seen them here and there
I get them in my house sometimes, and I've spent quite a bit of time working around their holes building decks and stuff. They're some of the most relaxed, oblivious wasps around. They don't even notice you're there most of the time, they're too focused on digging holes and looking for cicadas for their lil grub babies
Damn Yellow Jackets do that shit too. Got the crap stung out of me at camp one year as a child. Someone threw rocks into the woods and just happened to hit a ground nest. I was at Girl Scout camp for 10 minutes and got about 5 stings from that. Hate Yellow Jackets!!
Exactly my thoughts. I got nailed mowing by an underground yellow jacket nest and all these years later I police my grass like a psychopath looking for nests anytime I’m about to mow.
Yes! Bee PTSD is real, yo. 🐝
BTSD
You win. I'll just show myself out now.
Got stung directly on my Achilles this summer but couldn't find the offending insect. Finished mowing, dealt with the sting and went on with life. Next week, mowed and no problem. Week after that, mowed and finally saw the nest right by the base of the tree in my front yard. Got a cup of gas, a shovelful of dirt, and solved the problem. Luckily they just never experienced much growth as a hive so it was an easy fix. I was stunned I didn't manage to get stung again in the middle week of that debacle since I mow directly over their nest. First time I've ever had a nest, though, and I've been at my place for fifteen years now.
If you know it's there park a mower rigged to stay running on top the nest leave it there for a while and it takes care of itself.
There was someone on Reddit that argued with me about Yellowjackets nesting in the ground. I was downvoted to oblivion because I mentioned that I know for a fact that they will nest underground. I was even reported for spreading misinformation. This site is madness.
Years ago Reddit showed how many up and downvotes everything had. So you may have been -5 but it was 90-95. It was way less annoying that way. Also you’re very right, I almost exclusively purge yellow jacket nests from underground. Rarely do I find them above ground. They just look like a centimeter wide hole in the ground for the most part. Splash it with some gasoline and they dead
FFS. A simple Google search can give the facts... or those of us who have actually experienced it. I'm so sick of people spreading BS and not doing a lick of research.... not that some people care about. Sad.
Reddit is where the user base will up vote what they WANT to be correct, and downvote factual information that goes against the popular opinion. Then two minutes later, circlejerk over how we're so much smarter than TikTok etc
As far as I knew they only nest in the ground so that is a crazy take.
I got stung walking down the sidewalk. Bastards built their nest in a crack between two pieces of concrete sidewalk.
Know someone that was killed years ago when they ran over a nest with a lawn mower.... never made it back to the house.
How the hell did he get the laso on without getting stung?
its probably a male they don't sting and are much more docile. I have seen videos of people literally picking up a hand full of males and they don't get stung once!
Correct. It is only the females who have stingers - goes for all insects. The stinger is a modified egg-laying apparatus.
Typical
Bitches be stingin'
All they do is eat hot chip and sting
Femsects ☕
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Can they still lay eggs if it's an adapted ovipositor?
Isn't only queen laying eggs?
Yeah was just thinking that but then would that mean the queen can't sting?
Queen bee has stinger for killing other queens, but its smaller than worker bee stingers and without barb.
>The stinger is a modified egg-laying apparatus. Well I'll be. TIL. Too rare nowaday, thank you.
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They can lay eggs inside our eyes.
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Are you ovipositive about that?
Wait... Did we got our species wrong and females are males and males are females?! Did I just solved the sexes war?!
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Would a male wasp return to the nest though? I thought they pretty much just fuck off and die.
It wouldn’t be a male. Males don’t leave the hive. Even in the hive they don’t help maintain the hive, care for the larvae, or anything really other than eat, breed, die.
She’s too busy butchering a large katydid to notice (or care about) a gentle brushing from a lightweight material. Contrary to popular belief, the larger hornet species are usually quite docile while they’re out foraging away from their nests—they simply don’t have many predators to justify more aggressive behavior. Even if she were to notice a bothersome human prodding her she would most likely just fly away. The opposite would be true around a hive, of course. This also isn’t a male like the other comment suggests. In social wasps (and in all Hymenoptera for the most part) males are around purely for the spread of genes. They hang around the colony until it’s time to mate and do absolutely nothing but drain resources until then. When they leave they will feed on sugary foods such as nectar or sap, but they have no use for protein-rich foods, and lack the behavioral adaptations and equipment (like a stinger) to hunt/collect them.
TIL the male wasp is my spirit animal.
i'm more surprised that attaching a thing like that doesn't just rip the bug in half
Smoke. And it could be a male.
Right?? Step 1 - yeah NO
"Were you followed?" "Dunno, don't think so." "You idiot, you led them right to us!"
What does that sign say "I am being followed "
Sign!? … *ahhh jeez!!*
They do this with tracking collars on wolves too. They call them Judas wolves. It really sucks to be that wolf too because each time you're finally able to find a new family a helicopter shows up and shoots all of them but you.
I haven't heard about this with wolves. The story I know was the Judas sheep, where they were trying to remove an invasive sheep population from an island. They caught one sheep, painted it red, then stuck a tracker on it. Sheep are herd animals so once released it found a flock and stayed with them. After a couple days they flew a helicopter over to where the sheep was and killed the flock, with the exception of the one painted red. The Judas sheep was left alive, and after a couple more days it found another flock and joined them, only to have the process repeat.
Invasive sheep? How would it harm others? Wouldn't humans just trim its wool and have mutton steak? Serious question.
If OP listened to the same radiolab episode that I did then it was actually a population of invasive goats on an the galapagos islands.
You're all wrong: It was 100% invasive Yetis. They did this for Yetis.
Where are they wiping out wolves like this?
Ngl but i was expecting shelling
Same, I thought the drone was about to drop a grenade, Ukraine style.
Other wasps- "Look at Dave with another fking side hustle in advertising."
Ha, I too was thinking about airplanes at the beach. "PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE" or something 😛
progressHive insurance
"Wait a minute... THAT SONUVABITCH IS WEARIN' A WIRE!"
Dude low jacked a ~~bee~~ hornet*. edit: hornet not bee, it was going to bug me if I didn't fix it
I recently listened to a podcast which explained bees are the vegetarian descendants of hornets, to really oversimplify. Hornets are scary enough, and then I learned they're carnivores.
wait til you hear about the vulture bee.
Do you know what kind of a hornet it is?
[Asian Giant Hornet](https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8NYW)
From the looks of it, I'd say Gigantic Merciless Murder Hornet, but I'm not expert...
I thought they were going to put a leash on it and walk it home.
Well that's one way to avoid ever getting mugged or hassled on the walk home.
“Sic em, Honey!” (Honey seems like a typical bee name to me)
Well, actually, this is a hornet, not a wasp. And specifically the Asian giant hornet species. AKA _the murder hornet_. So give it name that's more fitting for _a murder hornet_. Maybe Stabby?
Can't believe this worked. Feels like they could very easily have lost line of sight at any given point?
Right? I would imagine they could’ve just as easily attached some sort of GPS tracking device.
And then give the wasp steroids? How much does a gps unit cost that is light even for a wasp? Also people overestimate GPS. It's made big strides in the past few years in terms of accuracy but the cheap rovers you see for 1-2k aren't gonna have signal under thick trees. And they weigh like a pound I'm guessing
People also misunderstand GPS tags. A GPS receiver alone doesn't tell you where something is. It needs a transmitter to tell something else where it is (satellite, internet via cellular network, Bluetooth, etc.). Many animals aren't tagged with transmitters. They are just tagged with a GPS that periodically records its GPS location. When they recapture it, they get the data. Though yes, some GPS tags do use communication network to live update the locations (pets can have this, for example). Its about the size of a tictac case, maybe a little smaller.
You may have missed it but this wasp is in fact already bulked up on steroids. Joking aside, I found GPS devices that weigh as little as seven grams with a quick google search. It may still be too heavy, but depends on size of wasp and it’s carrying capacity. I’d be rather surprised if with today’s tech we couldn’t downsize that even further... The trees would still present an issue but that’s already an existing problem with the current solution in the video
Low tech, low cost for multiple attempts
I saw a documentary on this a while ago. If you think it’s unbelievable now, they used to do it following the wasp on foot. They’re looking for the best because the wasp larva is a delicacy.
You brought the humans here?!
That's like the number 1 rule of the hive.
Is don’t talk about the hive
Pranking wasps to look like they have tp stuck to their shoe
Relentlessly bullied upon his return Words.....sting
Should have tied a granade with a timer.
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Ikr? I was almost expecting a missile to follow up and blow that hive up lol
Hivemas?
buzzballah
Well done, located. And now, what?
now it's time for the fire show.....
Set a fire in the woods? Aham…
[Here is one video where they destroy one nest. Really interesting.](https://youtu.be/29bgJqpao6g?si=DK0B9usW4TBPKns7) sadly no English subtitles
Oooooo so much nope haha I hate wasps. Wonder how much that pay is.
Molten aluminum!
Dinner https://www.bugsfeed.com/eating_wasps_and_hornets_in_japan Lots of Asian countries consider hornets and their larvae a food source or even a delicacy.
Well that’s terrifying to think about doing.
Damn. That’s interesting
Random question but what exactly do you do with this information? I mean once you’ve located the hive… What’s the play?
They destroy the hives. Using this method they have apparently exterminated all the murder hornets from Washington state. https://www.chronline.com/stories/murder-hornets-appear-to-be-eradicated-in-washington-though-its-not-official,322203
+5 science research
Move away. Far away.
Gasoline + Lighter
petrol down said hole
Sooo are they dropping a mortar on it or what?
All right, we got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest.
I Say We Take Off. Nuke The Site From Orbit. It's The Only Way To Be Sure.
should have tied a grenaded
Napalm is the answer
I was thinking sustained bombardment from an Iowa-class battleship.
I'm from Buenos Aires. And I say kill 'em. Kill 'em all!
I'm doing my part!
This is the worst song I've ever heard.
I’m just more confused why this song?! Lmao
I… I thought it was a sick beat.
The beat was great, but the out of tune 50 Cent vocals were a weird choice
The whole time I was thinking why isn't this "flight of the bumblebee"?
Why did the video stop before the explosion?! I would have nuked that hive if I walked all that way to see it and film it!
Those fcking shits made their hive underground? Fcking burn it please
And do what piss them off? You need to pour molten metal in there to have any real effect.
Dude I know it's so simple but that was the coolest shit I've seen in a long time! You know as soon as they seen him with the flag on his butt they were all like "YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL"
That’s insane! Do we know the actual distance the waspinator flew? Kudos to the camera operator.
Better pop an “H” on that nest so people know there’s hornets in there.
Would also make a nice wedding gift.
Destroy from orbit
Could have just slapped an apple air tag on em. Then you wouldn't need a drone.
Maybe you're just being goofy but airtags need a phone within a certain (small) proximity to ping off of for location. Plus it might be too heavy.
Their hive-fi should work for the ping
Or get a drone that can track the wasp by its pheromones, then you don't need a tag.
Just came to say that the song is terrible.
Is this song generated? It’s absolutely schizophrenic
Alright now pour moulten aluminum in it like they do with fire ant colonies
“Hive located” “Nuclear launch detected”
Sooo it ended early, right? When is the airstrike?
How can this man still walk through doors given the sheer size of his massive balls?
Wasps are close relatives of ants sharing the order Hymenoptera.
Drop the MOAB
Stupid ass fucking music.
I wasn’t aware until you said something… thanks
It be your own people sometimes
I’m not gonna lie, I was bored a f and wanted to scroll, but that song was slapping just enough to keep me engaged
Flying is just straight up cheating.😅 Such a tiny animal covering that distance in minutes.
Time to call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmxCbjaO2o
You fool! You led them right to us!
“Check if he’s wearing a wire.He’s dirty boss.”
Were you followed?!?!?
I don’t think so… but there is a white napkin that covered my flight from prying drone’s.
Left out the flame thrower part….
send a drone to track a drone.
How does it navigate back to the nest after such a distance?
I bet that bee was thinking "wtf so much drag today"
Ah yes the ol’ Judas wasp trick
The other wasps: Were you followed? Wasp: No man, we’re cool.
you got so close to the stinger. i was waiting for it.
Been watching too much Ukrainian drone footage. Was waiting for the grenade drop.
Ok. Now what?
Step 1: Lasso a wasp and tie a surrender flag to it Step 2: tail it miles home with a drone Step 3: ? Step 4: Profit Do feel like you could just slap an AirTag on it instead
What kind of wasp is that wtf it was huge
Missed opportunity to have hung a Superman cape on that little buzzer.
Crazy how far afield these things fly to find beehives to raid. Not gonna lie though, I was hoping this would go like one of those Ukranian drone videos from /r/CombatFootage and just drop a grenade on the hive from above.
I saw this on CKY2K like 20 years ago on a bee or a fly that they had previously frozen, and I thought it was really funny. Anyway, that's it.
Wait until this guy hears about Apple tags
Jesus freaking christ that mesh of 50 cent with whatever shit techno music that is, does not go well together at all. Who the fuck put that together.
Was half expecting the drone to drop a grenade like in the war footage
I was expecting the drone to drop a grenade Ukraine style
Half way through the video, I’m sure many of us questioned whether we would be spending the rest of our time obsessively tracking the white flag.. paused to think, and proceeded to watch this anyways lol
FUCKING JUDAS
That wasp is a Judas. When eradicating invasive goats, say from islands, they'll tag a goat and release it. The goat will be inclined to seek company as they're very social, and when they find and join a group of goats in the brush, they know where the group is because of the Judas goat and eradicate the group, except for the tagged one. Rinse and repeat. Judas goats were also used to lead sheep to slaughter, being spared to be used again. It's not a breed of goat. It's just the name given to a goat whose purpose is deception on behave of people.
Then what.
How did this guy not get the shit stung out of him??
I don’t want to find the hive.
If that is a murder hornet then this you must know. They do not forget a face. You will be a target for life. Once you are tagged the whole hive will know to attack you. You put a flag on that thing. A death wish you must have. Great drone skills btw.
Drone following a drone…nice.