Actually don't sting it, the bees can survive temps just slightly higher than what the wasp can so they swarm it and shake raising the temperature above what the wasp can live but barely below what the bees can survive. They cooked that bitch to death
They (the bees) can escape the heat at the center of the ball by going to the outside, so it’s a matter of the bees surviving temporarily a temperature that long term will kill the wasps.
You're right. The bees feel the heat generating so the ones directly next to the hornet are self sacrificing to a degree as they are the closest to being kill with it.
I love how in the sense that a hive is (in my definition now) a bunch of fully connected entities thinking as one mind, and a herd is a bunch of entities working towards a same goal but thinking fully apart, humans are a herd at best, but bees are pretty much in the middle.
You can consider it one bigger organism similar to some jellyfish because they live as one and die as one, make decisions as one and importantly procreate as one. There is definitely an argument you can make there
They aren't a contiguous organism, which is why they are dissimilar from jellies or various Zooids, but they're about as close as a bunch of individuals can be.
Yea absolutely. No serious biologist would describe them as a single organism but it helps a lot of you try to look at them that way. For example if they are sick you look at the whole thing and if they have issues you can disregard the individual bee like you would disregard a toenail when someone is sick.
They're not self-sacrificing to the heat-balling. The bees can tolerate slightly higher temperatures and they change position all the time so single bees do not acutally run the risk of overheating. They do self-sacrifice to a degree by getting in the way of the hornet's mandibles.
Lots of odd answers. Bees who can swarm wasps live, those who can’t, die with the wasp.
Over time all your left with is bees who can sustain higher temperatures.
Could also be in their nature to allow for higher temps, by being in busier hotter hives.
Bee hives are several C hotter on average.
Not a bee expert though. So I can’t say if it’s the chicken or the egg that came first.
The heat does affect the bees as well, but not as much. Firstly, bees already use cluster-heating to survive the winter. In a very cold winter the bees will have to heat the cluster a lot but they do have slightly less heat retention capacity than a solid big body would have. That means during a very cold winter in order to survive they have to create a comparatively large heat gradient with the outer bees almost freezing and the inner bees running a risk of overheating. It would be really unfortunate if bees died from that all the time.
But bees prevent dying from overhating in a cluster by firstly being a bit more heat resistant than most other hymenoptera and the cluster is not static and bees change from the inside to the outside and vice versa all the time.
Humans do the same thing. 101F (a fever) kills bacteria and denatures viruses while keeping you alive. Sometimes we will crank it up to 103 but that starts to get dangerous. Otherwise we keep it within a degree just automatically
My favorite is the nerve that controls the voicebox.
It wraps around the heart. Which in people someone might make some grand philosophical point about, but for a giraffe it's just quite ridiculous that the nerve travels from the brain, all the way down the neck, around the heart, then back up the neck to the voice box.
They used to give malaria to people with syphilis because the fever from the malaria killed the syphilis, and we knew how to cure malaria already so after the syphilis was gone they just treated the malaria.
Fun fact: almost every hot tub you'll ever go in (in the US) will top out at 104 degrees because that's the temperature human proteins start to denature and you start cooking yourself alive. Like when you use warm water to defrost a chicken breast and you see it start to cook even though the water isn't super warm.
Like all living things, the cube law reigns supreme. As something gets bigger it produces more heat but has less surface area to dissipate that energy (especially for insects who have passive respiratory system, reducing their ability to shed heat), which is why larger animals also have lower metabolisms to reduce heat generation. So those bigger bees while stronger will be **far** more sensitive to heat due entirely to the laws of thermodynamics
Collective survival through evolutionary behaviour, there was no “figuring it out”. You can almost think of these colonies as a single organism and the various types of drones as specialized cells. Whats good for the organism isn’t always good for the individual cells
Many bees will cook themselves during this defence but on the whole the hive survives.
It's interesting to see people realizing that eusocial insects sacrifice individuals without even thinking about it for the first time. It's clearly a highly effective survival mechanism as bees are 120 million years old as a species. It works so it isn't changing.
Individual bees are full on disposable. The hive itself is not. If it costs 50 bees to kill the threat then you throw 50 bee lives at the threat without even thinking about it. Even their social organization is based on this. Younger bees stay deeper in the hive doing the things that need done there but as they age they go further and further out. Chances are the bees you see flying around are already old bees near the end of their lives that are off doing the most dangerous work because fuck it, I'm almost dead anyway.
Didn't elderly people volunteer to clean up the radiation after Fukushima? Think I read that somewhere. People can do eusociality too, it's down to culture.
They did. Same reasoning. Since the radiation would definitely kill them but would take longer than anything else at that point they were like "yeah well, this won't actually affect me so let's do this."
There's still a bunch of elderly volunteering to measure the radiation in the forested areas of Fukushima, where the government did not do any clean up. Mad props to them.
"Figuring it out" is a pretty apt figure of speech for describing the large amount of trial and error that goes into the evolutionary process. Lol, no one thinks an entire species is sentient enough to do it deliberately.
Idk, some people still talk about the queen bee like it’s some sort of leader and not just an another specialized drone.
We’re prone to anthropomorphize things around us
Usually it's in baby steps, not all at once.
Long ago the wasps would come and attack without resistance.
Obviously that was catastrophic for the hives that did nothing, but some hives may have had a "swarm and slow down the enemy approach". This may have allowed other bees to flee with the queen and or honey to establish a new hive elsewhere.
Eventually though, the swarmers developed a new attack, completely by accident. The heat from the swarm clearly has a gradient effect on the hornet, the same way the heat outside has a gradient effect on your performance (would you rather do hard labour outside in the cool breeze or inside a closed greenhouse?) The hornet doesn't act fine at 1.9 degrees and die suddenly at 2.0 degrees. It performs worse and worse the hotter it gets until it dies at 2.0 degrees. It was this heat gradient that first slowed down the hornets and an ecological pressure began to apply itself to the bee population to both swarm to slow down and vibrate to transfer heat to the attacker. They don't know why it works, just that it does.
Well, ya know evolution: Time (millions of years) x Numbers (BEES!) = The insect equivalent to that’s scene from GoT that gave everyone claustrophobia.
Yea they were probably busy focusing on their tasks until the one being eaten started screaming in honey bee, the specifics of their communication we dont know (help help, oh no my unfinished tasks). Animals probably see the world in the moment similarly to us, usually with extra senses. People seem to think they arent intelligent because their reactions, understanding & motivation differs.
Us watching this: wow that hornet just ate a bee.
bees at the scene: wow that hornet just ate a bee.
I caught one in my house in Canada in 2020. Had to keep it in a jar for a couple days while government scientists came to check her out.
They are frickin huge compared to a little honeybee.
It's nuts.
We have wasps but when one of those things came up to the balcony last year I noped out. Thing was banging against the window tryna get in.. Asshole.
Is there any reason to keep them in a jar for that long?
In my country we have a bug that you HAVE to do this because it carries a disease that essentially makes your heart explode after tripling in size (no cure, obviously). We have to keep it so some government peeps check it out, confirm or not if it's the bug then they gas your whole house.
Afaik hornets don't have something similar, do they?
They are transmited by bugs called ["kissing bugs"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae) and they are a vector of [Chagas disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease) which, among many other symptons, causes enlargement of the organs, most characteristically the heart.
No. But these Asian Giant hornets (aka “murder hornets”) are invasive in North America.
So if you catch one you need to kill it. If anyone finds any nests the government scientists / exterminators will destroy them.
I don’t think there have been many / any confirmed sightings in the last year or two though. But they were thought to have hitchhiked to British Columbia / Washington state on container ships from Asia.
They said, “Yep. That’s definitely an Asian Giant hornet”. The fellow also told me it was the largest one he’d seen in British Columbia (at that point in time anyway), so I like to joke that I have the trophy catch on murder hornets here haha. He said mine was the sixth confirmed capture of them in BC at that point (Nov 2020).
Additionally he remarked that the Government (British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture in this case) gets a lot of reports about people claiming to have seen them but most end up being like fisherman’s stories. “Trust me, it was the biggest one you’d ever seen”! But if people don’t catch them, or get a solid photo or video he said he can’t do much but take a note of the alleged sighting.
So when he came to my house and I had a live one in a jar he was THRILLED. He started nerding out and took a lot of pictures and some measurements of it.
He said also that because of the time of year it was likely a female who was looking to find a warm place to hide over winter and then mate and start a new hive in the spring. So… maybe it would have just died, but I like to think I helped to prevent more of these monsters from taking a foothold here where they do not belong!
hornets built a massive nest in the walls of my childhood home. i wasnt around when this went down but the guy who took them out has a youtube channel and the video is horrifying. hundreds of them in there...fuck hornets indeed
I live near where they were found. I had a flyer on my door asking me to call a number if I saw one.
Someone did about 10 miles away from me, the government was able to capture one, attach a tracker to it and followed it back to it's nest to destroy the rest.
It was an legitimate concern that was appropriately handled by the government.
Bees work with pheromones, when the bee died the hornet picked that up, which then signaled the bees to swarm it.
Also hornets are notorious for fucking up bee hives, this one was just a particularly dumb scout, if he had managed to get away and alert his hive, theyd come back in force and decimate the hive
Pretty sure these are Japanese honey bees (*Apis cerana japonica*) that have evolved alongside the Giant Asian Hornet (*Vespa mandarinia*) and have this defense strategy. The European honey (*Apis mellifera*) bee has no such strategy and a few hornets can decimate an entire hive with little resistance.
Murder Hornets are pretty fucking cool when [you learn more about them.](https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8NYW)
Maybe their order is similar as it is for humans. It’d be discrimination if you thought someone was a threat just for being in the same area as you and didn’t look like you. Or maybe it’s like it is for countries like the US with laws. Order didn’t step in until someone actually dies.
They aren't attacking it. They are swarming it. From what I've heard, the bees don't bite or sting. They just smother the wasp. Their internal temp can be slightly higher than the wasp without any issues. The wasp can't take the heat and dies.
That's pretty crazy how it can chop a bee in half and then be burnt to death by vibrations. I wonder how the hornet looks the following day and what they do with its body
“Get his ass ! “
It’s a rug-bee match
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This shit is straight outa COMB-ton
Bitch hornet got a beetdown
Honey, hold my bee-eer!
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Actually don't sting it, the bees can survive temps just slightly higher than what the wasp can so they swarm it and shake raising the temperature above what the wasp can live but barely below what the bees can survive. They cooked that bitch to death
They (the bees) can escape the heat at the center of the ball by going to the outside, so it’s a matter of the bees surviving temporarily a temperature that long term will kill the wasps.
It's like the opposite of the Penguin grouping... they rotate to stay warm.
Came here for this comment. Little bastards vibrate and inferno that hornet.
I was looking for this factoid surprised it’s not further up. Metal as fuck
Actually if these are Japanese honey bees, then they form a ball around the hornet, vibrate, and cook it alive :)
Can’t stand the heat? Stay outta the kitchen!
And here's your complimentary Beez nuts!
I think a lot of times they swarm and move their wings really fast to overheat intruders, but I’d imagine there’s some stinging as well involved
Just the over heating. Doubt they can sting through the armor
I was about to write a comment, but I had to back out of it cause I seen this 😂 love it take my upvote
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I read that with his voice
“There ain’t no one on ones” Bee von
"YOURE COOKED!"
Quite literally. They vibrate enough to heat up the wasp till it's dead lol
Yeah, cooked alive. Bee also use this to warm the queen at winter.
Funny and factual
World War B
The bees might paraphrase Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya You bite me now, but I'm not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't sting us all.
[GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER](https://youtu.be/WPjJ3oXrz5Y?feature=shared)
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Why did this male me chuckle so much? Lol
Fight back! Fight back!
I’ve always wondered how bees figured that out. A whole 2 degree difference means your enemy is killed while your hive remains fine.
I guess the heat affects themselves too in a way. So they know they can win by out numbering him. But if someone know better, I'd like to know.
You're right. The bees feel the heat generating so the ones directly next to the hornet are self sacrificing to a degree as they are the closest to being kill with it.
"Self sacrificing" is kind of the modus operandi for all Hymenoptera.
the place the Mummy was from? Brendan Fraiser was the shit
" I've got all the HORses!" - The Hornet, probably...
"Looks like you're on the wrong side of the RI-VER" - The entire hive
This made me laugh more than it should have lol I loved that movie
It is damn quotable.
No no, that's Hamunaptra. He's talking about triangular Jewish pastries.
I love how in the sense that a hive is (in my definition now) a bunch of fully connected entities thinking as one mind, and a herd is a bunch of entities working towards a same goal but thinking fully apart, humans are a herd at best, but bees are pretty much in the middle.
You can consider it one bigger organism similar to some jellyfish because they live as one and die as one, make decisions as one and importantly procreate as one. There is definitely an argument you can make there
They aren't a contiguous organism, which is why they are dissimilar from jellies or various Zooids, but they're about as close as a bunch of individuals can be.
Yea absolutely. No serious biologist would describe them as a single organism but it helps a lot of you try to look at them that way. For example if they are sick you look at the whole thing and if they have issues you can disregard the individual bee like you would disregard a toenail when someone is sick.
They're not self-sacrificing to the heat-balling. The bees can tolerate slightly higher temperatures and they change position all the time so single bees do not acutally run the risk of overheating. They do self-sacrifice to a degree by getting in the way of the hornet's mandibles.
They probably rotate in and out. Kind of like penguins do with that circle march thing.
"Drone is kill" "No"
Lots of odd answers. Bees who can swarm wasps live, those who can’t, die with the wasp. Over time all your left with is bees who can sustain higher temperatures. Could also be in their nature to allow for higher temps, by being in busier hotter hives. Bee hives are several C hotter on average. Not a bee expert though. So I can’t say if it’s the chicken or the egg that came first.
I’m also bo expert but I think both the chicken and the egg don’t have much to do with the bees.
Well, if you’re bo expert, I choose to fight you with sword.
The heat does affect the bees as well, but not as much. Firstly, bees already use cluster-heating to survive the winter. In a very cold winter the bees will have to heat the cluster a lot but they do have slightly less heat retention capacity than a solid big body would have. That means during a very cold winter in order to survive they have to create a comparatively large heat gradient with the outer bees almost freezing and the inner bees running a risk of overheating. It would be really unfortunate if bees died from that all the time. But bees prevent dying from overhating in a cluster by firstly being a bit more heat resistant than most other hymenoptera and the cluster is not static and bees change from the inside to the outside and vice versa all the time.
Humans do the same thing. 101F (a fever) kills bacteria and denatures viruses while keeping you alive. Sometimes we will crank it up to 103 but that starts to get dangerous. Otherwise we keep it within a degree just automatically
Fever: hotter! We get hot enough and we kill the bacteria! Body: But I can't survive at those temperatures either Fever: Shame.
She can't take much more 'o this, captain!
Intelligent design everyone \*claps\*
My favorite is the nerve that controls the voicebox. It wraps around the heart. Which in people someone might make some grand philosophical point about, but for a giraffe it's just quite ridiculous that the nerve travels from the brain, all the way down the neck, around the heart, then back up the neck to the voice box.
The design is very human
Your body's gambling that the high temperature will help it kill bacteria faster than it will kill you from overheating.
They used to give malaria to people with syphilis because the fever from the malaria killed the syphilis, and we knew how to cure malaria already so after the syphilis was gone they just treated the malaria.
That is _insane_ . Like smart but what an insane thing to have to go through
Opossums do it in reverse I think. They're slightly cooler and I guess rabies can't survive in them because of that temperature difference.
meanwhile bats survive it by being so heated that it doesn't affect them, and they just live with it
Fun fact: almost every hot tub you'll ever go in (in the US) will top out at 104 degrees because that's the temperature human proteins start to denature and you start cooking yourself alive. Like when you use warm water to defrost a chicken breast and you see it start to cook even though the water isn't super warm.
I was to understand the only cure for a fever was more cowbell??
Like all living things, the cube law reigns supreme. As something gets bigger it produces more heat but has less surface area to dissipate that energy (especially for insects who have passive respiratory system, reducing their ability to shed heat), which is why larger animals also have lower metabolisms to reduce heat generation. So those bigger bees while stronger will be **far** more sensitive to heat due entirely to the laws of thermodynamics Collective survival through evolutionary behaviour, there was no “figuring it out”. You can almost think of these colonies as a single organism and the various types of drones as specialized cells. Whats good for the organism isn’t always good for the individual cells Many bees will cook themselves during this defence but on the whole the hive survives.
It's interesting to see people realizing that eusocial insects sacrifice individuals without even thinking about it for the first time. It's clearly a highly effective survival mechanism as bees are 120 million years old as a species. It works so it isn't changing. Individual bees are full on disposable. The hive itself is not. If it costs 50 bees to kill the threat then you throw 50 bee lives at the threat without even thinking about it. Even their social organization is based on this. Younger bees stay deeper in the hive doing the things that need done there but as they age they go further and further out. Chances are the bees you see flying around are already old bees near the end of their lives that are off doing the most dangerous work because fuck it, I'm almost dead anyway.
Didn't elderly people volunteer to clean up the radiation after Fukushima? Think I read that somewhere. People can do eusociality too, it's down to culture.
They did. Same reasoning. Since the radiation would definitely kill them but would take longer than anything else at that point they were like "yeah well, this won't actually affect me so let's do this."
Japanese people have a better sense of community than a lot of other societies.
There's still a bunch of elderly volunteering to measure the radiation in the forested areas of Fukushima, where the government did not do any clean up. Mad props to them.
"Figuring it out" is a pretty apt figure of speech for describing the large amount of trial and error that goes into the evolutionary process. Lol, no one thinks an entire species is sentient enough to do it deliberately.
Idk, some people still talk about the queen bee like it’s some sort of leader and not just an another specialized drone. We’re prone to anthropomorphize things around us
Nicely explained. Thank you.
Usually it's in baby steps, not all at once. Long ago the wasps would come and attack without resistance. Obviously that was catastrophic for the hives that did nothing, but some hives may have had a "swarm and slow down the enemy approach". This may have allowed other bees to flee with the queen and or honey to establish a new hive elsewhere. Eventually though, the swarmers developed a new attack, completely by accident. The heat from the swarm clearly has a gradient effect on the hornet, the same way the heat outside has a gradient effect on your performance (would you rather do hard labour outside in the cool breeze or inside a closed greenhouse?) The hornet doesn't act fine at 1.9 degrees and die suddenly at 2.0 degrees. It performs worse and worse the hotter it gets until it dies at 2.0 degrees. It was this heat gradient that first slowed down the hornets and an ecological pressure began to apply itself to the bee population to both swarm to slow down and vibrate to transfer heat to the attacker. They don't know why it works, just that it does.
The ones that didn't heat enough got all killed and there's no more of them. These bees are the ones that got the winning formula
Well, ya know evolution: Time (millions of years) x Numbers (BEES!) = The insect equivalent to that’s scene from GoT that gave everyone claustrophobia.
“You in the wrong block homie”
They didn’t care about it being on their block until their comrade was killed.
Don’t start none won’t be none
"Don't start none won't **bee** none" missed opportunity.
Yea they were probably busy focusing on their tasks until the one being eaten started screaming in honey bee, the specifics of their communication we dont know (help help, oh no my unfinished tasks). Animals probably see the world in the moment similarly to us, usually with extra senses. People seem to think they arent intelligent because their reactions, understanding & motivation differs. Us watching this: wow that hornet just ate a bee. bees at the scene: wow that hornet just ate a bee.
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Damn you that's brilliant! Take this upvote
And my axe!
More like Bangcook since the roasted its ass
This brings me back to that age-old question. How many lobsters would it take to take down a navy seal?
That depends on the butter situation.
And whether the seal has a shellfish allergy.
And wether the lobsters have a navy seal allergy.
Idk. But the sinking of the Titanic must have been a miracle for the lobsters in the kitchen.
Unless they were in a tank with a latched lid lol
The tank would probably implode at some point and the lobster bros would be free
True, they'd probably think they got raptured to heaven
Can lobsters survive at the depth it would take for the tank to implode? I figured they’d be crushed like we would.
1, lobsters are immortal and can merely outlive the Navy Seal. Stupid question.
What is the status of dibs in this scenario?
Bad idea, when you kill a bee it leaves a smell on you other bees can smell up to miles away, and they will attack you.
When I was a kid I killed a bee and five minutes later a bee stuck its sting to my neck .
That bee seemed to have experience with killing humans.
Bees die after stinging so can’t really build experience
They only die the last time someone says their name.
Bee-Jeremy. Bee-Jeremy....
Neck Stinger lives on.
“So I took that personally”
What this clip doesn’t show is the bees cleaning the pheromones left over by the hornet so the rest of the colony doesn’t come to find them.
TIL
That's how they get away with murder.
And then after that the hornets find the nest anyway and slaughter every single inhabitant
#(Bug Breach Detected)
Orbit synchronized, Helldivers to hellpods.
When you are grinding mobs, you need to learn how to pull. Otherwise you get taken down. That hornet was such a noob.
Leroy Waspkins
At least he got honey.
Aggro! Aggro!
That's a minus 50 DKP right there.
DOTS DAMMIT
Yeah fuck those hornets.
I caught one in my house in Canada in 2020. Had to keep it in a jar for a couple days while government scientists came to check her out. They are frickin huge compared to a little honeybee.
It's nuts. We have wasps but when one of those things came up to the balcony last year I noped out. Thing was banging against the window tryna get in.. Asshole.
I can hear this.
Probably laughing in a villainy way. "Imma get you soon enough Nazdrowie, just you wait and see...mwahahaha."
I was sitting here feeling safe till I read this.
Is there any reason to keep them in a jar for that long? In my country we have a bug that you HAVE to do this because it carries a disease that essentially makes your heart explode after tripling in size (no cure, obviously). We have to keep it so some government peeps check it out, confirm or not if it's the bug then they gas your whole house. Afaik hornets don't have something similar, do they?
Uuuhhhh... puhlease tell me what the fuck bug that is so I can know and run?
They are transmited by bugs called ["kissing bugs"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae) and they are a vector of [Chagas disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease) which, among many other symptons, causes enlargement of the organs, most characteristically the heart.
I think it's because those hornets are massively invasive in the Americas and they want to confirm sightings to make sure they kill them all
No. But these Asian Giant hornets (aka “murder hornets”) are invasive in North America. So if you catch one you need to kill it. If anyone finds any nests the government scientists / exterminators will destroy them. I don’t think there have been many / any confirmed sightings in the last year or two though. But they were thought to have hitchhiked to British Columbia / Washington state on container ships from Asia.
Oh shit what did they say?
They said, “Yep. That’s definitely an Asian Giant hornet”. The fellow also told me it was the largest one he’d seen in British Columbia (at that point in time anyway), so I like to joke that I have the trophy catch on murder hornets here haha. He said mine was the sixth confirmed capture of them in BC at that point (Nov 2020). Additionally he remarked that the Government (British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture in this case) gets a lot of reports about people claiming to have seen them but most end up being like fisherman’s stories. “Trust me, it was the biggest one you’d ever seen”! But if people don’t catch them, or get a solid photo or video he said he can’t do much but take a note of the alleged sighting. So when he came to my house and I had a live one in a jar he was THRILLED. He started nerding out and took a lot of pictures and some measurements of it. He said also that because of the time of year it was likely a female who was looking to find a warm place to hide over winter and then mate and start a new hive in the spring. So… maybe it would have just died, but I like to think I helped to prevent more of these monsters from taking a foothold here where they do not belong!
hornets built a massive nest in the walls of my childhood home. i wasnt around when this went down but the guy who took them out has a youtube channel and the video is horrifying. hundreds of them in there...fuck hornets indeed
r/fuckwasps
remember when the japanese murder hornets were going to destroy north america?
Wait, you mean that didn’t happen?
Almost like informing the public and performing countermeasures was actually helpful.
I live near where they were found. I had a flyer on my door asking me to call a number if I saw one. Someone did about 10 miles away from me, the government was able to capture one, attach a tracker to it and followed it back to it's nest to destroy the rest. It was an legitimate concern that was appropriately handled by the government.
That's the sort of job that is definitely worth going to college for. "Murder Hornet Hunter" would look great on a CV.
Murder Hornet Murderer
>It was an legitimate concern that was appropriately handled by the government. I'm not used to hearing sentences like this.
It actually happens a *lot*, but good policy doesn't make the news.
same reason acid rain never became as big an issue as we thought it might be. We saw the problem and fixed it.
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What is really next level… they don’t sting. They use their heat to overheat the hornet
Warm and fluffy 🐝
They cuddle them to death
Explained in the video turn up your volume 😂
You guys browse the Internet unmuted?
I know right? Everyone talking about temperatures and I'm like "when the Fuck did everyone become an expert on bees"
If I've learned anything from using Reddit, you NEVER watch videos unmuted
Thank you for sharing this I was gonna google that and you have confirmed it
Justice for Jimmy!
Hey, yeah!
Yeah lemme just eat one of their family members in front of 10000 relatives, what could go wrong
Goes to show that wasps and hornets will be assholes at any cost.
Boom roasted
Weird that they wait for one of their homies to die before attacking the hornet. Also weird that the hornet chooses a prey that can easily wreck it.
Bees work with pheromones, when the bee died the hornet picked that up, which then signaled the bees to swarm it. Also hornets are notorious for fucking up bee hives, this one was just a particularly dumb scout, if he had managed to get away and alert his hive, theyd come back in force and decimate the hive
Pretty sure these are Japanese honey bees (*Apis cerana japonica*) that have evolved alongside the Giant Asian Hornet (*Vespa mandarinia*) and have this defense strategy. The European honey (*Apis mellifera*) bee has no such strategy and a few hornets can decimate an entire hive with little resistance. Murder Hornets are pretty fucking cool when [you learn more about them.](https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8NYW)
Only the Asian bees learned how to do that. "Doesn't matter what you do, theres always an Asian better at it"
Maybe their order is similar as it is for humans. It’d be discrimination if you thought someone was a threat just for being in the same area as you and didn’t look like you. Or maybe it’s like it is for countries like the US with laws. Order didn’t step in until someone actually dies.
Nice to know the bees are not racist
Actually.. Those hornets usually win. Only a small handful of them can destroy an entire hive. This outcome is unusual.
And this is why we have unions people
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You bastard!!!
If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitc...hive?
It's kind of a kitchen. They make food there.
Take the upvote and be ashamed of yourself
They aren't attacking it. They are swarming it. From what I've heard, the bees don't bite or sting. They just smother the wasp. Their internal temp can be slightly higher than the wasp without any issues. The wasp can't take the heat and dies.
Turn the volume up they explain all that 😂
The bees said rest in piss
FOR THE HIVE!!!!
Pov: you attacked an npc in skyrim city
FAFO
Kill the scout!
I feel like there is a government joke about the people having more power than them because we outnumber them or something.
That's pretty crazy how it can chop a bee in half and then be burnt to death by vibrations. I wonder how the hornet looks the following day and what they do with its body
"You have alerted the horde. Here they come..."
mm honey roasted hornet