And not only they live in Australia but in all tropical countries, hundreds of native stingless bees, little known to the northern countries, my channel talks about them ua-cam.com/video/RfJbDdlW3iU/v-deo.html
australian blue banded bees love grass seeds and they dig in dirt too, found about 10 clumped together eating dried grass seed and sitting on some long dry grass. Usually I thought bees only stick to flowers but they love large paddocks of grass too. I can imagine it's like a grain for them to eat
Stingless bee honey is delicious. Sometimes when your walking out bush, and find a hive, just go up to it, take a *little* bit out and move on. It is reaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy delicious.
A spiral pattern with a central core would be the most efficient, stable design for temperature control. Australian summers are brutally hot. The spiral design could allow air to flow through if the temperature in the hive gets too high. To keep the hive warm at night, the bees could bunch themselves into the gaps and trap heat, only allowing the outermost rings of the hive to be exposed to the cold, and keep themselves warm by vibrating their bodies. A standard hive might trap too much heat to be of use. This is all speculation, though, since I know nothing of the behavior patterns except that they're social. However, a strong social structure would be needed to use the group as a whole for the task of ventilating sections of hive at different times. Maybe their individual travel paths can be mapped through the hives, exposing where the bees are directing gusts of wind that enter to the sections needing cooling. The spiral pattern would be very efficient for that as well, since warmer air rises, it could act as a slight temperature differential ventilation system, aiding the bees. Or I could be totally wrong.
Omg, this is so beautiful! I believe they are trying to maximize the amount of honey they can store, and a circular vessel is perfect for the most amount of volume given a certain perimeter, but because the average bee likes to layer their hive in parallel, that means they'd have gaps between the circles, so they chose the hexagon for the least amount of waste. But these bees must be spiraling their hive so they can avoid that problem while still sustaining the circular packets.
The spiral section in this hive is actually the brood (eggs, baby bees). They store their food in 'Honey' and 'Pollen Pots' in the edges of the hive :)
As a programmer, insects are incredible, especially social insects like ants and bees. The fact that they are able to create such sophisticated structures with their tiny brain and nervous system is just remarkable.
YES! These incredible stingless Ligurian bees also make the most beautiful, pure honey that tastes absolutely heavenly! Sadly, thousands of these beautiful creatures were destroyed by the devastating fires that ravaged the only place where they are found..Kangaroo Island, off Adelaide, South Australia. It will take years of dedicated breeding to try and restore their numbers. If you should love honey, and love bees, please think of our little creatures.
Note: Queens don't oversee the hive. Social insects operate together as a single superorganism. Each signaling and responding to their nest mates individually. The aggregate behavior emerges as a very intricate hive behavior which to us appears controlled by a single controller, but it's not, its a collective intelligence.
I actually got these in my dad's porch and he got me them for one of my birthdays, I wish I could see them inside their hive without disturbing them. Thinking about the interior of the hive makes me wonder: Do bees have nightvision?
National Geographic, you really have a get a narrator. I don't want to read then miss the amazing footage! Usually I read first, then re-watch your vids a second time to see the amazing details in your video. Good thing your videos are only usually on average, a minute long.
It's cool to see the hexagonal pattern emerge anyway because maths. I'd say this unique method of hive building might be tied to the lack of stingers as a weapon and thus the absence of extremely expendable bees.
Let me get this straight. First, they are stingless. Second, They live in Australia where any little thing can kill you. Third, The Queen is OUTSIDE!? How exactly do these bees survive?
They survive like any other eusocial insect colony that has different social hierarchies built into it. Also, the queen doesn't live outside the hive was obviously split open
A bee lives 6 months only and it take them arround 3 months to make the house and breed , when ppl eat knife instead of the bee house they could be more today.
TheRilluma They daub resin on intuders such as ants and Small Hive Beetle, effectively mumifying then and then incorporation them into the hive structure. They can also deliver a small (and not very painful) bite, but usually only when you REALLY annoy them :)
I have heard if this happened they are really in trouble. Which means we may be in trouble. I don't know that it is good that this happens. I am not sure what should be done about it.
They bite and use resin to cover attackers ,if disturbed by humans they aim for eye lids, crawl in your ears and any other sensitive bits the can get to!
The Australian Stingless Bees build their hives from the bottom up. What do you think of the unique behavior of these bee socialites?
National Geographic may be their brain create maps in spiral pattern
And not only they live in Australia but in all tropical countries, hundreds of native stingless bees, little known to the northern countries, my channel talks about them
ua-cam.com/video/RfJbDdlW3iU/v-deo.html
australian blue banded bees love grass seeds and they dig in dirt too, found about 10 clumped together eating dried grass seed and sitting on some long dry grass. Usually I thought bees only stick to flowers but they love large paddocks of grass too. I can imagine it's like a grain for them to eat
You should do a documentary about these aussie things:
Dangerous creatures - land leeches, spitfire caterpillar, electric stingrays, blue ant (not a real ant it's a female blue flower wasp), sawfish, spur winged plovers, magpies, ants, spiders, snakes, locust storms, pink lakes with dangerous bacteria/algae, marlin fish, sword fish, barraccuda, coneshells, orcas, sea urchins, crown of thorns starfish, black rabbitfish, bristle worm, venomous platypus, wasps, leopard seals, kangaroos, wedged tailed eagles, bats, echidnas, sandflies,jellyfish, stonefish, toadfish, blue ring octopus, crocodiles, dingos, goanas, giant rats, ticks, sea lions, giant centipede, tarantulas, huntsmens, scorpions, emus, tasmanian devils, mosquitos, sharks, stingrays, cassowaries, lion fish, white throat snapping turtle, striped surgeonfish, cane toads, camels, moray eels
Strange creatures - leafhoppers, flounder, giant moths, ice addicted pythons in meth labs, dugongs, deep sea creatures, crows starting bushfires to eat bugs, mantis shrimp, sea slugs, bioluminescent animals, glowing fungi & scorpions, etc
Aussie dangerous plants: lagunaria pattersonii (itchy bomb tree), gympie gypie stinging tree, calamus pine, bindi grass, bunya nut, prickly lettuce, thistles, spikey & poisonous cycads, acacia with thorns, milky mangrove (make you blind), crown of thorns, white stinging sea fern
Other dangerous aussie things: quicksand, cyclones, tornados, floods, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, tidal waves, bushfires, wolf creek, ned kelly, chopper reid, tropical storms, rip tides, thunderstorm asthma, desert, criminals, fecal matter in beach water after floods, dust devils, overflowing dams, deadly soil contaminated with possum poop, hot roads/hot sand/hot sun, boomerangs, water spouts, microbursts, fire wheel/fire tornados, dust storms, cloud seeding, whirlpools, dangerous oceans,
GrowingDownUnder And the most dangerous of all, Vegemite.
The world needs many many many more stingless bees 🐝!!
Dope hives, check.
Stingless, check.
Australian? Now that's a prize-winning bee, mate!
FarCritical In a County full of poisonous killing things, it’s nice to know there’s at least one thing that can’t kill you.
Kiled
Australia and stingless bee? In what universe is this from?
Exaflare Bahamut lol
They carry knives instead.
7 or 11, cause they're the only two left ;)
Don't be fooled. What they lack in sting they make up for in Spiral Power.
it's stingless, but it will burrow into your lungs and chew it''s way out. Such is the australian way.
Gotta love a stingless 🐝
Just another one of many unique species that inhabit my amazing country. Well done Mother Nature.
@ 0:25 "They are highly social" , while the queen just casually prances past another bee that's on the comb squirming and dying 😂
I'm a stingless bee farmer at Malaysia and this is REAL
I'm native bee keeper in Brazil, God bless!
Stingless bee honey is delicious. Sometimes when your walking out bush, and find a hive, just go up to it, take a *little* bit out and move on. It is reaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy delicious.
A spiral pattern with a central core would be the most efficient, stable design for temperature control. Australian summers are brutally hot. The spiral design could allow air to flow through if the temperature in the hive gets too high. To keep the hive warm at night, the bees could bunch themselves into the gaps and trap heat, only allowing the outermost rings of the hive to be exposed to the cold, and keep themselves warm by vibrating their bodies. A standard hive might trap too much heat to be of use. This is all speculation, though, since I know nothing of the behavior patterns except that they're social. However, a strong social structure would be needed to use the group as a whole for the task of ventilating sections of hive at different times. Maybe their individual travel paths can be mapped through the hives, exposing where the bees are directing gusts of wind that enter to the sections needing cooling. The spiral pattern would be very efficient for that as well, since warmer air rises, it could act as a slight temperature differential ventilation system, aiding the bees.
Or I could be totally wrong.
Omg, this is so beautiful! I believe they are trying to maximize the amount of honey they can store, and a circular vessel is perfect for the most amount of volume given a certain perimeter, but because the average bee likes to layer their hive in parallel, that means they'd have gaps between the circles, so they chose the hexagon for the least amount of waste. But these bees must be spiraling their hive so they can avoid that problem while still sustaining the circular packets.
The spiral section in this hive is actually the brood (eggs, baby bees). They store their food in 'Honey' and 'Pollen Pots' in the edges of the hive :)
They don't actually store the honey in the spirals
no
Finally an animal from Australia that's not gonna hurt you
As a programmer, insects are incredible, especially social insects like ants and bees. The fact that they are able to create such sophisticated structures with their tiny brain and nervous system is just remarkable.
YES! These incredible stingless Ligurian bees also make the most beautiful, pure honey that tastes absolutely heavenly! Sadly, thousands of these beautiful creatures were destroyed by the devastating fires that ravaged the only place where they are found..Kangaroo Island, off Adelaide, South Australia. It will take years of dedicated breeding to try and restore their numbers. If you should love honey, and love bees, please think of our little creatures.
Ligurian bees are not stingless. They are just more calm. I keep Ligurian honey bees. These are Tetragonula Carbonaria, from Eastern Australia.
We’ve a lot of those in Southern Africa, the ones on ground called (Monga) and the ones in the trees (Dendende).
Mantap telurnya banyak...
There are so many things about this that are amazingly fascinating. My goodness!
Good Old Aussie Stingless Bees!😀👌👍🐝🍯🇦🇺
Note: Queens don't oversee the hive. Social insects operate together as a single superorganism. Each signaling and responding to their nest mates individually. The aggregate behavior emerges as a very intricate hive behavior which to us appears controlled by a single controller, but it's not, its a collective intelligence.
There are about 300 species of stingless bees guys! ^.^
This is weird but satisfying.
So cool!
God save the Queen...of the stingless bee.
This gave me the TINGLES
Stingless!?... my kind of bee
This is the way it should be.
I actually got these in my dad's porch and he got me them for one of my birthdays, I wish I could see them inside their hive without disturbing them. Thinking about the interior of the hive makes me wonder: Do bees have nightvision?
Very nice!
Very interesting.
Nice
National Geographic, you really have a get a narrator. I don't want to read then miss the amazing footage! Usually I read first, then re-watch your vids a second time to see the amazing details in your video. Good thing your videos are only usually on average, a minute long.
Fibonacci! This is the first step to remembering who we are
TwennyGee no one can forget Fibonacci. It’s all around us. 🌏
yesss finally. family
Chef Rafi's Awesome World tell that to the flat earthers
ANONYMOUS 1 one love bro
Nature! keeps amazing us. Stingless unbelievable
Awesome😊
Awesome
Spiraled into control....not out of!
Amazing!
WE REQUIRE THE EXTRACT FREEMAN! YES! THE EXTRACT!
YIKES
Nice.. Very different from kerala style
Wow
the Brazilian stingless bee Schwarziana quadripunctata also builds beehives in a spiral form, for better thermal regulation.
Here, in Brazil, have manies species of stingless bees and some meliponas doing spiral hives, but not like this form.
Stingless..... bee?
Omg yes!
... I had only barely sat down! That's a mellifluous piece of music on close.
Plants and insects both using the same pattern to create. That blows my mind when I think about it...
Wow fantastic
It's cool to see the hexagonal pattern emerge anyway because maths. I'd say this unique method of hive building might be tied to the lack of stingers as a weapon and thus the absence of extremely expendable bees.
It looks like a flower
uso modelos INPA !! Belíssimos enxames, muito mel, aqui eu fabrico minhas proprias caixas, gostei e vou fazer um teste com esta modelo.
Beautiful, unique. Only in Australia 😄 I'm not surprise
In malaysia we call it madu kelulut most expensive honey
We have them everywhere in Australia, sugar bag we call the honey.
Australia...where a mammal can sting you, and the bees can't. Gotta love the irony.
sacred geometry....
It looks like a flower!
Why weren't Africanized bees bred with stingless bees instead of European bees?
These bees not as efficient being honey producers as their European and African counterparts.
Just info, Indonesia had the stingless bee like tha too. Please come to our country and make specialized documetaries
You can actually harvest their honey
Straya
stingless bees? Australia? Wow Australia has a not so dangerous insect
I have to much in my backyard
Let me get this straight.
First, they are stingless.
Second, They live in Australia where any little thing can kill you.
Third, The Queen is OUTSIDE!?
How exactly do these bees survive?
They survive like any other eusocial insect colony that has different social hierarchies built into it. Also, the queen doesn't live outside the hive was obviously split open
Lebah Kelulut? Yupp ^.^
👍👍👍
The nest is built similarly as wasp and hornet nests...only the bees store nectar for dearth periods.
Stingless yes, Triggering trypophobia, also yes
At least something that doesn't sting in australia
impressive, exactly the same as the native bees of Brazil, apis melipona.
Do the same with the south american's stingless bees
We call it kalolot. In my hometown in the philippines
zih cep same name here in Malaysia, although it's spelled kelulut
Ww... wa... wait, so there's a non venomous bee... in Australia!?
It looks like a flower?!
more like a jam .. Jk .. Ok flower .. yes .. sorry O.O
Fibonacci
Omg bee careful meep meep 🐐
I kinda find it odd that this bee is stingless, especially that it's from Australia!
trypophobia triggered for sure
Great! Now we watch videos to read texts?
A bee lives 6 months only and it take them arround 3 months to make the house and breed , when ppl eat knife instead of the bee house they could be more today.
what do you mean its not clear ? its certainly cooler, thats why
Do they produce honey
I wish the world works this way. Especially politics. 😟
Don't be deceived. They're still Australian. They traded their stings for the ability to shoot lasers.
no wonder it looks like a flower ; - )
Strange wonder why no stingers?
how they defend if they cant sting
TheRilluma They daub resin on intuders such as ants and Small Hive Beetle, effectively mumifying then and then incorporation them into the hive structure. They can also deliver a small (and not very painful) bite, but usually only when you REALLY annoy them :)
Beee movi
An animal in Australia that ISN'T trying to kill you?!
I have heard if this happened they are really in trouble. Which means we may be in trouble. I don't know that it is good that this happens. I am not sure what should be done about it.
Creepy !
But can they make honey?
Exo Yep, but only about 1kg a year. Called Sugarbag, it's lemony with a hint of Eucalyptus and very medicinal :) Sells for over $500AUD/kg sometimes.
yes very little tho
Aliens......
Love bee's but these creep me out🙈
Bees are inspired by God Almighty to construct hives and produce honeys.
who got his inspiration from the almighty allah
Be inspired!
God is the Greatest Creator
And here I thought all animals in Australia were killers.
全球蜜蜂的奇生蟲病害，
試試在蜜蜂基地四週放置大型音箱，早晚三次播放(普奄咒)，
連續三天至一星期，看看能否奇蹟的發生
*i'm dead inside
How the heck do they defend themselves and the hive then?
They bite and use resin to cover attackers ,if disturbed by humans they aim for eye lids, crawl in your ears and any other sensitive bits the can get to!
macka29au I would assume that the bitting hurts more than stings since their going after sensitive area's and bits from insects hurt more anyways.
No, not really...just annoying. It’s more about the numbers of them that they use to defend themselves!
Wait an insect from Australia that can't kill you and it's a bee... Ok reverse Australia sounds cool