I always say it like this: -Bee: You have to attack it or threaten it in order for it to attack you -Wasp: You just have to somewhat annoy it to piss it off and trigger an attack -Hornet: You just have to breath and exist near it in order for it to try and brutally murder you
The bit about hornets is, unfortunately, an incorrect generalisation, the European Hornet, which is, in fact, slightly larger than the Giant Asian Hornet, is extremely docile, more so than most other wasp species. The European Hornet also leaves beehives (and people) alone unless directly threatened, while the Asian one is known for, well, murdering entire beehives, and being aggressive towards pretty much anything and everything.
@@MareLooke I'm not taking any chances with those guys it's on sight with them. (I still got a bunch of stings from them randomly nesting in a bush I had my hand near)
Not true. Not all wasps are aggressive. In fact, I'm convinced they recognize a human and will try to avoid conflict. There was a wasp nest outside our front door for years. The wasps generally watched us come and go. Occasionally, they would fly around us when going to and from the hive. In the morning, the wasps would wait patiently while I filled water dishes outside. Then, they would fly down for a drink. As long as you don't swat at them, they will leave you alone. I can't say the same for all bees, wasps, and hornets. Some are definitely aggressive.
Your infomation about hornets is, unfortunately, mostly wrong. The European Hornet, Vespa crabro have workers average around 25mm while the workers of the Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa manderinia is about 45mm. Their attitudes are basically the same, not particularly agressive unless you mess with the nest, but because of its size and more potent venom, a swarm of V. manderinia has a chance of killing a human (a few every year in Japan). They are somewhat attracted to human food, but nothing like the much more 'aggressive' jellow-jackets. And while the European Hornet doesn't directly invade bee hives, they prey on bees a lot, just like they go after other smaller wasps. As after all, these ARE the primary predators for these kind of insects, in volume even more so than dragonflies or birds. The same goes exactly for their larger Asian cousin, except their overbearing size allows them to go as far as directly invading the nests of smaller wasps. The whole 'murdering entire beehives' is undeserved bad rep as the indigenous Japanese bee species can deal with their invasions just fine by heatballing invaders and it's only the domesticated species that get annihilated. But people reallly should stop with the hypocrisy of freaking out about it as our honey bees are effectively an invasive species, pushing out indigenous ones (yet people are fine with it of money and honey). Besides, it's trivially easy to stop V.manderinia from invading a commercial hive simply by putting a narrow metal grill on the nest's entrance. If they can't get inside they'll kill a bunch of workers but quickly give up when they can't get to the larvae.
@@tobiasrietveld3819 Soo, they do kill beehives and people, and are attracted to human food, but it's ok because some can survive as long as we give them special protection?
Actually, Hornets hunt small insects, like mosquitoes. Yellow Jackets, however, are very vicious, and will attack if given the smallest incentive. Bees sting, hornets bite(mostly) but Yellow Jackets bite AND sting. I would know. I have been attacked by all three. And I have almost been sent to the ER by Yellow Jackets... very nasty.
This explains perfectly why I was being attacked by wasps today. All summer long we peacefully coexisted. I usually don't resort to killing them since I can't tell the difference between wasps and bees but today they broke our detente leaving me with no recourse but to deploy the Spectracide. Rest in peace, my little friends.
I’ve explained this distinction to many people at my food service job as those INFERNAL yellowjackets are notorious for making life difficult in the late summer/early fall. I have a standing “Kill on sight” order for those within my store. We protect the bees but hornets and wasps are murder on sight, no remorse.
as a food service worker myself what kind of place would rather have there employees deal with wasps hornets and bees? your employer must really not care about those with allergic reactions to those things that can kill them because that is exactly what will happen during allergic reactions to bee wasp or hornet stings in some circumstances. also in food service that is just a unsafe work place anyways if you are having to worry about being stung all the time in the kitchen
@Omnipulsar most places, unsurprisingly. I work for a large corporation and it’s a well known fact that corporations don’t care about their employees. They prefer avoiding liability and having employees take appropriate precautions as necessary. And we’re not exactly out here holding all the doors and windows open all day long inviting them in. They will slip in through the constantly opening and closing Drive Thru window and I murder them as quickly as possible with a fly swatter. It’s not like we’re sticking our hands in an angry hive. If anyone is present who has an allergy we have them step away until the problem is dealt with.
@SourLlama ya I get corporations don't care if people die of allergic reactions on the job but you would think they would have enough brain cells to know that if they don't address the wasp problem someone who is allergic can die and then they will be liable and also I've worked at places where they are wasps in the smoking area but never so bad where you get swarms of them in the restaurant maybe if the employer at those places hired a family member and they died from a allergic reaction to a wasp sting maybe they will care enough to fix the wasp problem
@@jacevalentine5746 I can't give you a real answer and I'm by no means an expert. But looking at it from an evolutionary standpoint, the bees that started attacking wasps this way got to live, while the ones that didn't figure it out, died. I don't think it's just random chance, though. Honey bees _can_ sting, and if I were to guess (again, purely speculation at this point), it might've started with just a few hives of bees. Maybe they tried to defend themselves by simply dog-piling and stinging the hornet in large numbers. Although they didn't _intend_ to kill the hornet by roasting it alive, the strategy still worked, and so they learned to do the same thing the next time they were attacked. We know, after all, that bees _are_ capable of learning and passing on knowledge. The final step in the process goes back to evolution. Through trial and error, various bee colonies started picking up on this new tactic, and teaching it to new generations of bees. Bees who learned this tactic, and were able to pass it down, survived. Bees that didn't learn how to do this, died. Over many generations, they perfected their strategy, learning that the best way to kill the hornet is by cooking it alive (although I'm sure the bees who land on the hornet first probably sting as well, just for good measure).
A necessary note about wasps that was missing: The species of wasp known as Yellowjackets are unusually aggressive, in the sense that your every day paper wasp will most likely ignore you, while a Yellowjacket will become aggressive and sting with little to know provocation. They are considerably larger than their smaller paper wasp cousins, and can be identified by a large enclosed paper nest with single entrance versus the typical paper wasp umbrella nest.
See it gets confusing though: Where I'm from (Georgia, usa) we have lots of "yellow jackets" that have ground nests, sometimes with multiple entrances, layered waffle-style inside. Then we have "hornets" that make a somewhat similar nest but hanging in a tree usually. /shrug P.s. last time I was stung I was taking down a small tree with an axe and some nearby yellow jackets did NOT appreciate those sharp vibrations coming through the ground.
@@ManDuderGuyI was coming to say something similar! My mom got swarmed by those damn yellow jackets when she was around 10 🥲 bitter sweet moment bc she obviously got hurt, went to the hospital with like 40-50 stings (?* I don’t remember exactly) but learned she wasn’t allergic lol 🫠
@@fucno6924 Word up. Few people are allergic, thank goodness, but to be safe it's a good idea to have an epipen somewhere. I've been lucky I guess, never really been swarmed, it must be awful!
The funny thing is that hornets are pretty smart and they never attack people, unless they cause danger to nest or hornets themselves. For example, stupidass mf named wasp flew into my living room. I tried to free it by opening the window, but it still didn't know how to escape, but knew how to bite my arm, so I had to kill it. The other time hornet flew into the room. I opened the window, and it instantly realized, that in some places there is glass in some there isn't. In counryside I got biten and stung dozens of times by wasps and not a single time by hornet. Problem is, when people freak out and start waving their hands and shit, insects panic too.
Red paper wasps are pretty chill. They just wanna invade your personal space to perch, groom, and drink your sweat (so long as you don’t whack them (and miss. They’ll hold a grudge forever if you miss.)) Yellow jackets, however...are basically miniature hornets and boy do they know it.
So accurate. One time I was on a river resting trip and we went to a camp sight that had been burned to the ground the previous year. So 👀👀👀 all of the dead trees were INFESTED with jeweled wasps and they could walk on the water. After we got chased into the river twice. We risked poor rafting conditions to leave lol
Wasps and hornets kill all the flies and mosquitoes. So really, they're more like asshole police officers who are scary but they get rid of all the annoying petty criminals.
So pretty much every tRump supporter is a Hornet: Chaotic and really, really stupid and evil. I know it’s a throw away society, but let’s be honest, you can’t fix stupid, just throw them away
Bee: Watches video and goes away. Wasp: Watches video, reads comments, hits dislike, goes away. Hornet: Doesn't watch video, posts troll comments, and comes back to reply.
I think it's worth mentioning that there are flies that masquerade as wasps(hoverflies) which can be distinguished by their flight pattern. There's also tiny wasps which probably look more like flies which are beneficial to humans since they kill more threatening pests, usually ones that prey on our crops like leaf miner. Everone's probably seen hundreds of them and just never realized they were infact wasps.
They are smaller than wasps too. Last summer I saw one struggling upside down in a tub of water so I fished it out with a leaf and was able to watch it up close on the leaf as it wiped itself dry and buzzed its wings to shake the water off. I was able to watch it up close for about a minute before it flew off.
Yep, hoverflies can easily be identified by the fact that they, well, hover in staggered bursts, which wasps just dont do. Also the head is very different and more rounded, with red eyes while wasps have black eyes.
@@nowthatsjustducky tbh bees in general tend to be fairly docile overall. I know there are a few exceptions, mainly African bee hybrids but, bees are fairly kind natured and really do not try to sting unless they are attacked. Wasps see you existing and instantly want to make you pay for the crime of existence. I have had unfortunate run-ins with territorial wasps more than once. Sucks for them bc while they get the sting i get the last laugh with pesticides.
Literally every bee except honey bees won't die after a single sting. Honeybees are just fragile messes that overreact to every little bad thing. When comparing anything to bees, please refrain from thinking of the honeybee, they are one of the weirdest bees on the planet and aren't even native to most regions. Mason and sweat bees are far better examples of the average bee. Also, most wasps aren't actually chasing you to cause harm, in many cases they just think you might stir up or attract food items, like mosquitoes or grasshoppers. When they do attack, it's usually because you are near a nest. Even still, solitary wasps are quick to abandon their nest rather than stand and fight, so they are less likely to sting than most bees. Plenty of solitary wasps don't even make nests, making them _even less_ aggressive.
I had a job working for a pharmaceutical company in the allergenics and extracts dept. We processed yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps for their venom. So you have latex gloves on, masks, hair coverings, lab coat, and you pull the stingers out of the dead insects with small tweezers. You pull out the stinger and the venom sac and put it in a small vial. Repeat process ad nauseum. We had to make sure to never rub our face, nose or eyes. One day my coworker Julie had a problem with her contact lens and rubbed her eye. Shes screaming in pain and has to be driven to the ER. I figured she would have some swelling but she went into anaphylactic shock! Her face looked like she had been beaten with a baseball bat!! She took pictures of it and it was like half a grapefruit was growing out of her face below her eye! She was out for a week. We all got reminded of the danger and were very careful always.
In my experience wasps don't care about you unless you get especially close to it's nest or you agitate them, basically just bees with a bad attitude and much stronger sting. Hornets however, they're bloodthirsty or something cause they will fuck your shit up for literally no reason.
Bees when they see you: “I’m busy gtfo.” Wasps when they see you: “Ay yo chill fam or we about to go to war.” Hornets when they see you: “Did you just exist? Bah nah nah nah nah, you don’t do that here.”
If you ever find a bumblebee that's just sitting somewhere and not moving much, it's probably very exhausted. Take a spoon, put a couple drops of water on it and dissolve some sugar in it, then present it to the bumblebee. It will very happily slurp it up and then start zooming around again with the freshly gained energy boost. It's the cutest thing!
ByteKnight You can also catch it, put it in the freezer for a few minutes, tie a string to it while it’s in a catatonic state and after it warms up you’ll have a pet bee on a leash.
Bees: This small pocket knife should only be used for self-defense Wasps: *I won’t hesitate to unsheathe my sword* Hornets: I MUST FEED MY BLADE MORE BLOOD!
Bees: Mr bill Wasp: higher leveled, well educated and wealthy Jerome,Juanita and Jerry Hornet: shanaenae, Daquan with no chill and always gets offended then shoots people
@@dundee6402 Yellowjackets are easy. Share some food, be cool, and they’re cool. I haven’t been stung since I figured them out. They really like stinky feet. Don’t let you them nibble too long, eventually they will start biting skin. 😮
Around here, if you discover a wild honey bee hive on your property, there are plenty of local bee keepers who will fight to the death to relocate it to their farms.
Actualy wasps and hornets are much less agressive than everyone thinks they just are with other insects ( hornets kill wasps eather) but just to feed the larvaes and none of them is very agressive with humans!! They only attack humans if they feel threatened!!
I got stung by a wasp or as I referred to them at the time, a yellow jacket. I was mowing the back yard of my house when I disturbed a colony of wasps that had a nest hidden underneath the base of the fence that separated my yard from my neighbor's. As I pushed the mow near the nest I felt a knife stabbing pain in my right ankle. I looked down and spotted the wasp on me, its stinger buried into the area where I felt the pain. I stumped my foot shaking it away, then I ran away from the mower leaving it running. Safely away from the fence, I turned around to look at the mower horrified to see it being attacked by a swarm of wasps who had come out of the nest. I went inside the house and looked at the swollen bump on my ankle which hurt like hell. I remember being scared, hoping I didn't have an allergic reaction. I had heard horror stories of people dying after being stung by bees because they suffered an allergic reaction that caused their tongues to swell up and cut off their air passage. Lucky for me I did not suffer any serious complications however I will never forget that day.
Bees: “yo chill let me pollinate, I don’t wanna die” Wasps: “well i have nothing else to live for, so why not get drunk” Hornets:”BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
Here's a little extra for you all: the sting of a bee is always inherently acidic, while the sting of a wasp is inherently alkaline. Thus, a bee sting can be treated with a water and bicarbonate of soda mix and a wasp sting with vinegar, as the alkaline bicarbonate and the vinegar neutralise the respective stings.
To be fair they mostly sting prey wasps will not sting you unless you get too close to their nest or them in general I was able to acclimate myself with a yellow Jacket Nest until they let me get quite close the their nest so I could watch them.
While in college, a farmer donated a hive he had dug up in early winter to the biology department. Being a biology major, I found it interesting, but also asked how he knew the bees were dead. I was surprised by the answer from the science professors. "Because it's winter, they're dead." Having grown up around bees that lived underground, I had been familiar with the concept of insects hibernating. I suggested this and was resoundingly dismissed by both professors and students. By mid winter, the bee hive was covered with a blanket, though placed in a large fish tank and almost forgotten. One day a girl lets out a scream and yells "BEE!!!!" Immediately the others ask "where would a BEE come from in WINTER?!" Me: "How about that 'dead' bee hive in the back of the room?" They go look, professor equally enthralled.... pull the blanket off and shriek in horror as the 'dead' hive is now swarming with bees emerging from their all too short hibernation. It was only then they began taking my observations more seriously. I mean, I kinda earned the reputation as a joker, but thought I'd done a good job defending my explanation up to then. Not my fault they ignored my warning. :) Yeah - not all bees migrate for winter (if any do), and those that don't instead go to ground for the colder months to stay warm enough. oh... and bees can be BLUE too! www.losangelescountybeekeepers.com/blog/2020/5/14/floridas-long-lost-blue-bee-has-been-rediscovered
I grew up in Alaska and we had a lot of bugs, very few of which were capable of long distance migration. As best I understand it, most of the bugs only survive in egg form for an entire winter, with all other forms of their species completely killed off by the cold. (Adult ants may well get around this by hibernating far enough underground to avoid freezing temperatures. )
Honey bees: nature’s gift to us all Bumble bees: Well at least they pollinate plants Wasps: ehhh, they kill insects I guess? Hornets: why is it so angry???
BP Lup Strange, the hornets at my house leave me alone. I can even get my hand within inches of the nest. But I do have blond hair and blue eyes, so who knows?
@@joehemmann1156 No, you're right, solitary wasps only attack people if said person makes the foolish mistake of stomping down on his "ground-burrow." Which is annoying, if said "ground-burrow" is in a place on the front lawn of your house, where stepping on them is nearly impossible to avoid (and yes, I speak from direct experience with this phenomenon. It IS a problem some properties have, where I live). Basically, every year my wife and I have to go outdoors, seek out any ground-burrows we can find, and then, with the wasp sleeping inside it (typically during the evenings, because these wasps are not nocturnal), poison the burrow with some spray. We then cover the hole with some mesh, to prevent escape, and wait, as the wasp slowly suffocates to death inside the oxygen-stealing miasma the spray creates. Yes, that sounds cruel, but actually, the wasp dies painlessly, and in its' sleep, which is really no different than executing a criminal with a "lethal injection."
It’s crazy how people could just google all of these questions. We just enjoy how this guy explains things. Nice accent, and plenty of subtle personality
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Google doesn’t do a great job finding the right expert to explain things like this. You’re likely to be stuck on Wikipedia for an hour or looking at some agricultural department guidebook to field identifying insects for some specific region.
That last bit of info about the bees creating a ball to kill the hornet was a truly amazing bit of info. This is why you are one of my favorite UA-cam channels.
He's wrong in the statement the temperature is well under what the bees can handle. Pretty sure it's 117 F°, but it's very close to the lethal temperature for the wasp.
I can't believe you didn't mention the fact that the overwhelming percentage of wasps, 95% roughly, are parasites or spend a significant amount of their life as a parasite. That doesn't mean they aren't doing things that benefit people during that time. It's just an important distinction that wasps alone have.
@@windhelmguard5295 I disagree I've been around bees and there hives they're preety chill Been around wasp and j did get stung but that was me being an idiot My freind had a hornet nest we're he lived he walked past it and the lil fucks started trying to sting him
@@MultiMacmiller that's kinda what I meant by "flower". I was about to write "bud" but I liked the way this flowed better and imagined that stoners would understand the double entendre. Yeah it's hard to design the perfect YT comment but we're trying out here lol
Bees: nice little guys pollinate stuff OK in my book Wasps: little jerks, vicious creatures, necessary, but mean Hornets: if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a improvise flamethrower to their nest…
Bees: Neutral Mobs that only attack if provoked Wasps: Hostile Mobs that Attack if you get to close Hornets: Attacks regardless of distance or interaction and only stop when killed
JonahBoing I live in the country. I presently have two wasp nests near where I am generally interacting. One nest, on a water hose rack, I get to within 4 - 6”. As long as they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them. So far no incident has happened. Should one of them become aggressive and try to sting. They are all dead. But, so far so good.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 I’d say that the Designer knew exactly what He was doing when he created these insanely complex insects and programmed them with this kind of behavior. :)
Couple of points to elaborate on. 1. European Wasp (Vespula germanica) in most parts of Australia it has found it’s way, have changed their behaviours compared to their cousins in Europe. They do not die off in winter. They do continue to use the same nest, often forming nests with millions of wasps. They are more aggressive and will return with many mates if they are harmed. 2. The honey bees that cover hornets/wasps to kill them with heat have a shuttle system where the hottest bees work their way to the outside to cool down and to get fresh air. This constant flow of bees means higher core temperatures, and the bees don’t get affected by the heat or carbon dioxide. It also ensures the captured wasp can’t defend agains the horde as it is constantly changing.
The difference is that their stings hurt like hell, but in varying degrees. FYI, if you're hanging out with a friend who thinks it's amusing to throw a stone at a bee hive..... Find better friends.
@@scottyhaines4226 true.... But the sheer volume is what frightens me. Some people also go into shock, right? Aniphilactic or something, can't spell it. I'll look it up later.
If someone I was with threw a stone at any kind of bee hive I'd immediately break both their legs and skedaddle. Someone's gotta be sacrificed and it may as well be the one that caused the problem.
The main difference is that bees went down the vegetarian path when they split from wasps. Wasps do eat some fruit but prey on other insects as food sources for their young to feed on. There is also a group of stingless bees in Australia that produce honey as well and are excellent pollinators. There are also a great many solitary bees in Aus as well like the blue banded bee etc.
“What’s the difference between Bees, Wasp, and Hornets?” Me: Easy, bees are nice, wasp are scary, and hornets are a more buff and scarier version of wasp.
@@atlas34834 Oh, really? Tell that to the swarm of yellow jackets that attacked me simply because I was in the same basic vicinity as them. And I wasn't the only one! There were several other people who walked along the same path I did and got swarmed FOR NO REASON. I was just walking! I wasn't bothering them or anything and they attacked me anyway! So don't tell me that they're "lenient". 'Cause they're not.
@@LtBasil yellow Jackets are more ferocious but most wasps don't do that we have a nest in our backyard and me and my dad were playing catch and they were out there too and if I would get close it would fly around my legs but it didn't bother me. So I guess it really just depends on the bee and how aggressive it is too.
I've found wasps and ladybugs to be the best form of pesticide, I rarely have problems with pests in my garden and I know it's because it's always swarming with predatory insects like wasps and hornets. I try to get out and water the garden while it's still cool out before they're up and about because I live in a fairly arid environment and they'll start trying to get a bit too close for comfort seeking out water, so I also leave out a water dish for them in the garden in the summer because we'll go a month without rain pretty regularly and I can't blame them for being desperate for water. I've found them to be strangely way less aggressive in this area than other places I've lived tho, not sure why
Cool tip. If you have an issue with wasps at picnics or back yard BBQs, Cut a couple apples in half and put them 20-30 yards from where your event will be happening. The cut apples will attract the wasps, keeping them away from you.
So , Mr Wasp Esquire, we have every yacht that could accomodate your needs. Pathetic! I need a yacht with real buzz to it! One with bright black and yellow stripes. Spendid! Here's one that meets the bill! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
This summer I saw my first hornets ever. She and some friends of her flew into my apartment and seemed to like it. I sprayed them with water to make them leave. All left, but she stayed. She sat on my wall and slowly turned her head to look at me. She stared at my eyes. She was magnificent, majestic, beautiful, and scary. I apologized and left the room. They never came back. And I'll never forget the look she gave me.
Bees: Buzz
Wasps: *Drunken buzz*
Hornets: *IT IS GODS JOB TO JUDGE SINNERS, IT IS UP TO ME TO SEND THEM TO HIM*
Josh Fontaine hornets are actually Joshua graham
THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT ON THIS VIDEO LMFAO
This made my work shift pass quicker. My face hurts now. Ta. 😂
@@Arthurit1s the burned hornet
"It is one thing to forgive a slap across my cheek
But an insult to the Lord requires
No..
Demands correction"
Basically, the less round and fuzzy it is, the more hatred is in its soul.
Do you think there mad cause they're bald?
@@angelaguilar9222 🏆 you win 😂
you talk abou women?
*What soul?*
Hornets are like the emo teen phase in the world of stinging insects.
Bees - Average - Workers
Wasps - Soldiers
Hornets - *Special Forces*
Lmao love it
Hornets are assholes
Shots of bleach he probably died a long sad death by now bro
Hornets - the government
what about hovorrors 🤔
I always say it like this:
-Bee: You have to attack it or threaten it in order for it to attack you
-Wasp: You just have to somewhat annoy it to piss it off and trigger an attack
-Hornet: You just have to breath and exist near it in order for it to try and brutally murder you
The bit about hornets is, unfortunately, an incorrect generalisation, the European Hornet, which is, in fact, slightly larger than the Giant Asian Hornet, is extremely docile, more so than most other wasp species.
The European Hornet also leaves beehives (and people) alone unless directly threatened, while the Asian one is known for, well, murdering entire beehives, and being aggressive towards pretty much anything and everything.
@@MareLooke I'm not taking any chances with those guys it's on sight with them. (I still got a bunch of stings from them randomly nesting in a bush I had my hand near)
Not true. Not all wasps are aggressive. In fact, I'm convinced they recognize a human and will try to avoid conflict. There was a wasp nest outside our front door for years. The wasps generally watched us come and go. Occasionally, they would fly around us when going to and from the hive. In the morning, the wasps would wait patiently while I filled water dishes outside. Then, they would fly down for a drink. As long as you don't swat at them, they will leave you alone. I can't say the same for all bees, wasps, and hornets. Some are definitely aggressive.
Your infomation about hornets is, unfortunately, mostly wrong. The European Hornet, Vespa crabro have workers average around 25mm while the workers of the Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa manderinia is about 45mm. Their attitudes are basically the same, not particularly agressive unless you mess with the nest, but because of its size and more potent venom, a swarm of V. manderinia has a chance of killing a human (a few every year in Japan). They are somewhat attracted to human food, but nothing like the much more 'aggressive' jellow-jackets.
And while the European Hornet doesn't directly invade bee hives, they prey on bees a lot, just like they go after other smaller wasps. As after all, these ARE the primary predators for these kind of insects, in volume even more so than dragonflies or birds. The same goes exactly for their larger Asian cousin, except their overbearing size allows them to go as far as directly invading the nests of smaller wasps.
The whole 'murdering entire beehives' is undeserved bad rep as the indigenous Japanese bee species can deal with their invasions just fine by heatballing invaders and it's only the domesticated species that get annihilated. But people reallly should stop with the hypocrisy of freaking out about it as our honey bees are effectively an invasive species, pushing out indigenous ones (yet people are fine with it of money and honey). Besides, it's trivially easy to stop V.manderinia from invading a commercial hive simply by putting a narrow metal grill on the nest's entrance. If they can't get inside they'll kill a bunch of workers but quickly give up when they can't get to the larvae.
@@tobiasrietveld3819 Soo, they do kill beehives and people, and are attracted to human food, but it's ok because some can survive as long as we give them special protection?
*Human* : takes one step
*Hornet* : are you challenging me?
Me in s nutshell
Hornet: *so you’re approaching me?*
@@thewho186 yay jojokes
So you have chosen....Death
@@theguy2838 Still Hornet: Instead of running away, you’re coming right to me?
Bees: "I will eat this plant."
Wasp: "I will eat this small insect."
Hornet: "I will eat your soul."
I hated bees until I discovered hornets and wasps. We're cool now, bees.
Borg “you will be assimilated” 8€
Hornets are the ss guard with wings, and you are a Jew
Yellow jackets: "we got jackets..."
😂😂😂
bee: i am the reason flowers exist
wasp: i dont spread too much pollen but i control the insect population
hornet: i thirst for blood tbh
Hey Yennefer
Bees are an small part of pollution
Actually, Hornets hunt small insects, like mosquitoes. Yellow Jackets, however, are very vicious, and will attack if given the smallest incentive. Bees sting, hornets bite(mostly) but Yellow Jackets bite AND sting. I would know. I have been attacked by all three. And I have almost been sent to the ER by Yellow Jackets... very nasty.
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This explains perfectly why I was being attacked by wasps today. All summer long we peacefully coexisted. I usually don't resort to killing them since I can't tell the difference between wasps and bees but today they broke our detente leaving me with no recourse but to deploy the Spectracide. Rest in peace, my little friends.
Hornets when they see another creature: your free trial of living has ended
Wait, you have a free trial?
first name last name this shit expensive
Lmao. I didn’t expect the comment section to be this 🔥
@@jezebulls same 😂
@@firstnamelastname-rz5xl *always has been.*
Human: tries to take out garbage
Hornet: Oh, you’re approaching me?
Human: I cant take out the trash without coming closer
Take my like for the effective use of a Jojo meme.
*hits hornet with garbage as hard as death*
@@air_wick560 Oh then come as close as you like
human: opens beer
hornet: mine mine mine mine MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!!!!
(stings)
hornet: mine....
So basically…
Bees: “Hey man, I don’t want trouble.”
Wasps: “Pillage and plunder!”
Hornets: “Execute Order 66.”
Beautiful
Lmao. On point
It will bee done my queen
Yeah.
@@tylerjhackett6806 Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz x5760
I’ve explained this distinction to many people at my food service job as those INFERNAL yellowjackets are notorious for making life difficult in the late summer/early fall. I have a standing “Kill on sight” order for those within my store. We protect the bees but hornets and wasps are murder on sight, no remorse.
Too bad they emit a pheromone that alerts other wasps in the area
What is more worrisome to me is the carpenter bees…. Not only are they aggressive if disturbed, but Also destroy wooden structures quietly!
as a food service worker myself what kind of place would rather have there employees deal with wasps hornets and bees? your employer must really not care about those with allergic reactions to those things that can kill them because that is exactly what will happen during allergic reactions to bee wasp or hornet stings in some circumstances. also in food service that is just a unsafe work place anyways if you are having to worry about being stung all the time in the kitchen
@Omnipulsar most places, unsurprisingly. I work for a large corporation and it’s a well known fact that corporations don’t care about their employees. They prefer avoiding liability and having employees take appropriate precautions as necessary.
And we’re not exactly out here holding all the doors and windows open all day long inviting them in. They will slip in through the constantly opening and closing Drive Thru window and I murder them as quickly as possible with a fly swatter.
It’s not like we’re sticking our hands in an angry hive. If anyone is present who has an allergy we have them step away until the problem is dealt with.
@SourLlama ya I get corporations don't care if people die of allergic reactions on the job but you would think they would have enough brain cells to know that if they don't address the wasp problem someone who is allergic can die and then they will be liable and also I've worked at places where they are wasps in the smoking area but never so bad where you get swarms of them in the restaurant maybe if the employer at those places hired a family member and they died from a allergic reaction to a wasp sting maybe they will care enough to fix the wasp problem
To put it in simplistic terms:
Bees: Bros
Wasps: Not bros
Hornets: Not bros
Bumblebees: bros
Sandor Clegane Indeed. Bumblebees are definitely bros.
Kyle Niquette honey bees are also pretty bro
Bees: Bros
Wasps: Not Bros
Hornets: *NOT BROS*
Bees are cool until October hits once October hits bees will sting anything they see because they already know they're going to die
That last bit about the honey bees killing the hornet was extremely fascinating.
Hornet: “Hey! Free food! Come here-… wait what’s that sound… WAIT NO OH GOD PLEASE NO!”
Edit: *YOU HAVE ALERTED THE HORDE.*
Honestly "eusocial" animals like bees or ants are extremely interesting
Facts bro how tf are bees that smart how did they learn to do that
@@jacevalentine5746 I can't give you a real answer and I'm by no means an expert. But looking at it from an evolutionary standpoint, the bees that started attacking wasps this way got to live, while the ones that didn't figure it out, died.
I don't think it's just random chance, though. Honey bees _can_ sting, and if I were to guess (again, purely speculation at this point), it might've started with just a few hives of bees. Maybe they tried to defend themselves by simply dog-piling and stinging the hornet in large numbers. Although they didn't _intend_ to kill the hornet by roasting it alive, the strategy still worked, and so they learned to do the same thing the next time they were attacked. We know, after all, that bees _are_ capable of learning and passing on knowledge.
The final step in the process goes back to evolution. Through trial and error, various bee colonies started picking up on this new tactic, and teaching it to new generations of bees. Bees who learned this tactic, and were able to pass it down, survived. Bees that didn't learn how to do this, died. Over many generations, they perfected their strategy, learning that the best way to kill the hornet is by cooking it alive (although I'm sure the bees who land on the hornet first probably sting as well, just for good measure).
Honey bees will do this to a colony’s queen they are invading. It is known as queen balling in that scenario. It’s very fascinating
Bees: Polinate, mind their own business and are fluffy.
Wasps: Bees on meth.
Hornet: Wasp on steroids.
😂😂😂😂
Hornet: Wasp on PCP
Basically just described white people, black people and mexicans
@@ronkong8085 basically describing racism since your thinking these races only do that
Wasp on a maniacal Angel Dust high
A necessary note about wasps that was missing: The species of wasp known as Yellowjackets are unusually aggressive, in the sense that your every day paper wasp will most likely ignore you, while a Yellowjacket will become aggressive and sting with little to know provocation. They are considerably larger than their smaller paper wasp cousins, and can be identified by a large enclosed paper nest with single entrance versus the typical paper wasp umbrella nest.
See it gets confusing though:
Where I'm from (Georgia, usa) we have lots of "yellow jackets" that have ground nests, sometimes with multiple entrances, layered waffle-style inside.
Then we have "hornets" that make a somewhat similar nest but hanging in a tree usually.
/shrug
P.s. last time I was stung I was taking down a small tree with an axe and some nearby yellow jackets did NOT appreciate those sharp vibrations coming through the ground.
I think you mean NO provocation not “know” rofl
@@ManDuderGuyI was coming to say something similar! My mom got swarmed by those damn yellow jackets when she was around 10 🥲 bitter sweet moment bc she obviously got hurt, went to the hospital with like 40-50 stings (?* I don’t remember exactly) but learned she wasn’t allergic lol 🫠
@@fucno6924 Word up. Few people are allergic, thank goodness, but to be safe it's a good idea to have an epipen somewhere.
I've been lucky I guess, never really been swarmed, it must be awful!
@@UFCMania155 yeah oops lol
*BEES:* Leave me be, hooman.
*WASPS:* Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'!
*HORNET:* Omae wa mou shindeiru.
WTF !!!??? (Is That "Ubonics"???)😞
Nani?!
Lyle Rodriguez
bruh...
just watch any anime (specifically Hokuto no Ken)
G Truesdale NANI
Paper wasps will build a nest in places where humans frequent and then get all uppity when humans appear. Like, WTF.
Bees: Bro, I'm busy here, so could you leave?
Wasps: Get out of my way!
Hornets: You lookin' at me? YOU LOOKIN' AT ME?
You gave me the impression that hornets are like those black people
@@whitecunt6903 Why do morons like you exist?
Bumblebees: peace bro! Yeah you can poke me I don't care
@@whitecunt6903 you gave me the impression that you're an ignorant person
@@whitecunt6903 lol
Fauna: Exists
Wasps: *Get ready for trouble!*
Hornets: *Make it double!*
“I understood that reference”
OH GOD THE TEAM ROCKET OF BUGS
@@GhalidiusTrident But they're actually good at what they do
I read this as sauna rather than fauna
Wasp: to protect the world from devastation
Hornets: to unite all peoples within our nation
I'm imagining an English honeybee screeching, "God save the Queen!" Before the raid of Japanese hornets.
I think
Bee:
Wasp:
Hornet:
Just became a new meme format
Carlo Gaytan for real bro lmao
I like it
Bees: Hard workers
Wasps: Assholes
Hornets: Demons
Kybersketcer
What about the bumblebees??
@@opqrrg To my knowledge, they go in the "cute, fuzzy hard worker" category
@@kyberkreeper they definitely are!!
I think they even work harder than bees because with their size is more difficult to fly propely!!
OH shit... that means my yard is possessed by 200 demons
Hornets are more docile than wasps!
Person: *Does nothing*
Hornets: And now you officially took it too far, buddy.
My experience with wasps in a nutshell. And boy did it hurt!!!!
You can be super without it.
Lol
Thats why whenever i see hornets its on sight
The funny thing is that hornets are pretty smart and they never attack people, unless they cause danger to nest or hornets themselves.
For example, stupidass mf named wasp flew into my living room. I tried to free it by opening the window, but it still didn't know how to escape, but knew how to bite my arm, so I had to kill it.
The other time hornet flew into the room. I opened the window, and it instantly realized, that in some places there is glass in some there isn't.
In counryside I got biten and stung dozens of times by wasps and not a single time by hornet. Problem is, when people freak out and start waving their hands and shit, insects panic too.
Bumble bees’s wings don’t flap up & down. They flap in a circle which lowers the air pressure around them. This allows them to achieve greater lift.
Bees: Ya like jazz?
Wasps: Ya like getting drunk?
Hornets: YA LIKE DYING?
Adrian THIS IS THE BEST ONE
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I love this one
Red paper wasps are pretty chill. They just wanna invade your personal space to perch, groom, and drink your sweat (so long as you don’t whack them (and miss. They’ll hold a grudge forever if you miss.))
Yellow jackets, however...are basically miniature hornets and boy do they know it.
Bees: Fluffy, peacefully pollinating
Wasps: Gang mentality
Hornets: A menace to society
So accurate. One time I was on a river resting trip and we went to a camp sight that had been burned to the ground the previous year.
So 👀👀👀 all of the dead trees were INFESTED with jeweled wasps and they could walk on the water. After we got chased into the river twice. We risked poor rafting conditions to leave lol
Wasps and hornets kill all the flies and mosquitoes. So really, they're more like asshole police officers who are scary but they get rid of all the annoying petty criminals.
@@YourGirlYangOr chaotic evil vigilantes.
Honeybees are assholes other bees are the real heroes, except africanized honey bees
Hornets: Black Air Force Energy
*breathes 100 miles away from a hornet*
Hornet "so you have chosen death"
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I was stumg by not a wasp, a hornest and let me tell you, IT HURTS!!!!!!!!
El Master Actually if you were stung by a hornet, then yes you were stung by a wasp. All hornets are wasps
I have saved you from the devil by being the 667th like
TMAKT M0s4n1ty But the curse now lies on you
Hormet: "Imma get me some honey!"
*procedes to get moshpitted to death*
Hornet's sisters:Decapitate, all the bees and eat their babies.
Bees: Lawful Good
Wasps: Chaotic Neutral
Hornets: *Chaotic Evil*
Bumblebees are Lawful Good. Honeybees are Lawful Neutral.
So pretty much every tRump supporter is a Hornet: Chaotic and really, really stupid and evil. I know it’s a throw away society, but let’s be honest, you can’t fix stupid, just throw them away
@@mahamakeamericahealthyagai2153 How do you make even bees about Trump? Go get medical help you're clearly deranged.
Definitely deranged, you’re a sharp one
Hornets: *terrifying, chaotic, evil, and harmful*
Bees: We make good things
Wasps: We kill bad things
Hornets: We kill EVERYTHING!
I CAN'T STAND wasps and hornets, but I love bees!
@Gaius Wyrden They still do that to survive
killer bee vs bee vs wasp vs hornet
@@djfrancis5205 the hornet would probably win ngl
hornets don't discriminate. good to know.
*dude just walking*
Bees: whatever
Wasp: just dont get near me dude
Hornet:He did WHAT?!?!?!?!
More like, Hornet: You dare?! YOU DAAREE??!
lmaoooo
in my experience you have to switch the hornet and wasp around
Not sure if you have the red 1s around where you live but red wasps will try to sting you
@@austinbutcher8106 im dutch and we have the german hornet, they usually mind their own business and wont bother you
“Round is not scary, pointy is scary”
- General Aladeen
Their reaction to humans:
Bee: -.-
Wasp: •.•
Hornet: 👁👄👁
this comment right here concludes it all
Sam Tanna wth🤦♂️😂
lmfao
You win my approval I can stop scrolling knowing that my upvote found the right place lol
•.•
Bee: Watches video and goes away.
Wasp: Watches video, reads comments, hits dislike, goes away.
Hornet: Doesn't watch video, posts troll comments, and comes back to reply.
greenjelly01 funniest shit
Guess I'm classified as a hornet 😈
@@scarletbouvier520 and I am classified as *Horny* 🖕
@@ViratKohli-jj3wj don't make u sting you 🖕
I just get a mental image of each one on a tiny insect mobile phone😂😂😂
**When a human walks by...**
Bee: I'm busy, let me work.
Wasp: Get any near, or else we'll swarm you.
Hornet: FOR MOTHERLAND!!!
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For mother Russia
I have a severe phobia of wasps... They freak me out. The idea of one landing on me is what I hate the most.
hornets the hitlers of the bug kingdom..
I was thinking more British "FOR THE QUEEN!"
I think it's worth mentioning that there are flies that masquerade as wasps(hoverflies) which can be distinguished by their flight pattern. There's also tiny wasps which probably look more like flies which are beneficial to humans since they kill more threatening pests, usually ones that prey on our crops like leaf miner. Everone's probably seen hundreds of them and just never realized they were infact wasps.
You can also distinguish them by their antennae. Hoverflies (like all flies) have short ones, while bees and wasps have long antennae
They are smaller than wasps too. Last summer I saw one struggling upside down in a tub of water so I fished it out with a leaf and was able to watch it up close on the leaf as it wiped itself dry and buzzed its wings to shake the water off. I was able to watch it up close for about a minute before it flew off.
Yep, hoverflies can easily be identified by the fact that they, well, hover in staggered bursts, which wasps just dont do. Also the head is very different and more rounded, with red eyes while wasps have black eyes.
Moral of story: if it doesn’t die when it stings, it will sting relentlessly
Unless it is a bumble. Unlike honey bees, bumble stings aren't deadly to them, and they are still among the gentlest of the bees and bee type insects.
nowthatsjustducky thanks I didn’t know that
@@nowthatsjustducky tbh bees in general tend to be fairly docile overall. I know there are a few exceptions, mainly African bee hybrids but, bees are fairly kind natured and really do not try to sting unless they are attacked. Wasps see you existing and instantly want to make you pay for the crime of existence. I have had unfortunate run-ins with territorial wasps more than once. Sucks for them bc while they get the sting i get the last laugh with pesticides.
@@oceanbytez847 lol
Literally every bee except honey bees won't die after a single sting. Honeybees are just fragile messes that overreact to every little bad thing. When comparing anything to bees, please refrain from thinking of the honeybee, they are one of the weirdest bees on the planet and aren't even native to most regions. Mason and sweat bees are far better examples of the average bee.
Also, most wasps aren't actually chasing you to cause harm, in many cases they just think you might stir up or attract food items, like mosquitoes or grasshoppers. When they do attack, it's usually because you are near a nest. Even still, solitary wasps are quick to abandon their nest rather than stand and fight, so they are less likely to sting than most bees. Plenty of solitary wasps don't even make nests, making them _even less_ aggressive.
Bees: “leave me alone”
Wasp: “ don’t make me sting you”
Hornet” OH HUMAN..... WHERE ARE YOU??”
@Vladimir Pennysuckovski also true, so better keep a safe distance in any case possible.
Honey bees: *sees giant Asian hornet*
Giant asian hornet: *gets sealed away by a forbidden jutsu to protect the hidden bee village*
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Shinra tensei
Beellage
Chibaku tensei
With compound eyes, just imagine how many fucking Sharingan they'd be busting out.
I had a job working for a pharmaceutical company in the allergenics and extracts
dept. We processed yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps for their venom. So you have latex gloves on, masks, hair coverings, lab coat, and you pull the stingers out of the dead
insects with small tweezers. You pull out the stinger and the venom sac and put it in a small vial. Repeat process ad nauseum. We had to make sure to never rub our face, nose or eyes. One day my coworker Julie had a problem with her contact lens and rubbed her eye. Shes screaming in pain and has to be driven to the ER. I figured she would have some swelling but she went into anaphylactic shock! Her face looked like she had been beaten with a baseball bat!! She took pictures of it and it was like half a grapefruit was growing out of her face below her eye! She
was out for a week. We all got reminded of the danger and were very careful always.
Human: *breaths*
Wasp/Hornets: I don’t like the way he’s looking at us
Human: walking around a hive and even going so far as to help the hive
honeybees: :o
wasp's/hornets: >:T
In my experience wasps don't care about you unless you get especially close to it's nest or you agitate them, basically just bees with a bad attitude and much stronger sting. Hornets however, they're bloodthirsty or something cause they will fuck your shit up for literally no reason.
@@killerbug05 yea wasps are basically bees with nothing to lose.... hornets want nothing but death
Yq
@@killerbug05 yeah we have some wasps that made a nest on my porch. They’re pretty chill. The bees actually bother us more than they do.
Bees when they see you: “I’m busy gtfo.”
Wasps when they see you: “Ay yo chill fam or we about to go to war.”
Hornets when they see you: “Did you just exist? Bah nah nah nah nah, you don’t do that here.”
"You got a license for existing mate?"
-Hornet
Bzzz bzzz your existence is wrong
- hornets 🐝
If you ever find a bumblebee that's just sitting somewhere and not moving much, it's probably very exhausted. Take a spoon, put a couple drops of water on it and dissolve some sugar in it, then present it to the bumblebee. It will very happily slurp it up and then start zooming around again with the freshly gained energy boost. It's the cutest thing!
that sounds fun
And then eat it?
They have really long tongues, it's cute!
ByteKnight You can also catch it, put it in the freezer for a few minutes, tie a string to it while it’s in a catatonic state and after it warms up you’ll have a pet bee on a leash.
@@kevinbeazy jesus Christ kevin
Honey bees being so friendly while simultaneously developing a lethal defense mechanism: Group hug of death!
Well you can say that africanized bees are an exception.
Human : * Exists *
Hornet : And I took that personally...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bol
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Best comment.
Like being a white heterosexual male these days...
Bees: This small pocket knife should only be used for self-defense
Wasps: *I won’t hesitate to unsheathe my sword*
Hornets: I MUST FEED MY BLADE MORE BLOOD!
Bees: Mr bill
Wasp: higher leveled, well educated and wealthy Jerome,Juanita and Jerry
Hornet: shanaenae, Daquan with no chill and always gets offended then shoots people
Hornets be like BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULLS THRONE.
Blood for the blood god
Nataraj Monk
Killer bees: -watches hornet- oh! I like that, we would try more of that. But like... with thousands of us. 0-0
BURN IN HOLY FIRE
Bees: Usually friendly
Wasps: Drunk bees
Hornet: Jacked Wasps
If you're careful, you can pick up bees, but that's not recommended for wasps and hornets.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade unless you want a swollen finger
@@SmallSpoonBrigade As long as you don't do swift movements you can. Also easier if you have sugared water with you
@@dundee6402 Yellowjackets are easy. Share some food, be cool, and they’re cool. I haven’t been stung since I figured them out. They really like stinky feet. Don’t let you them nibble too long, eventually they will start biting skin. 😮
Hornets are basically just wasps on steroids super jacked and always angry
Bees: "Do not be careless with your lives! Only sting if it means protecting our home!"
Hornets: "WITNESS ME!!!"
Bee: call a service
Wasp: Wd-40 + cigarette lighter
Hornet: nuke from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Around here, if you discover a wild honey bee hive on your property, there are plenty of local bee keepers who will fight to the death to relocate it to their farms.
Lol
@@nowthatsjustducky LOL
Either that or a really big shoe.
“Game over man, game over!!!”
Bees: Firecrackers
Wasps:Hand Grenades
Hornets:Thermonuclear Hydrogen bombs
Precisely
That's about right.
Tarantula Hawks: Supernovas
Bees= non aggressive. Wasps = partially aggressive. Hornets= serial killers reincarnated.
you mean only the Asian hornet spieces. European hornets are less aggresive than Wasps
@@Powren0972 Hornets of all kinds are proportionately more evil than bees and wasps.
Actualy wasps and hornets are much less agressive than everyone thinks they just are with other insects ( hornets kill wasps eather) but just to feed the larvaes and none of them is very agressive with humans!!
They only attack humans if they feel threatened!!
I got stung by a wasp or as I referred to them at the time, a yellow jacket. I was mowing the back yard of my house when I disturbed a colony of wasps that had a nest hidden underneath the base of the fence that separated my yard from my neighbor's. As I pushed the mow near the nest I felt a knife stabbing pain in my right ankle. I looked down and spotted the wasp on me, its stinger buried into the area where I felt the pain. I stumped my foot shaking it away, then I ran away from the mower leaving it running. Safely away from the fence, I turned around to look at the mower horrified to see it being attacked by a swarm of wasps who had come out of the nest.
I went inside the house and looked at the swollen bump on my ankle which hurt like hell. I remember being scared, hoping I didn't have an allergic reaction. I had heard horror stories of people dying after being stung by bees because they suffered an allergic reaction that caused their tongues to swell up and cut off their air passage. Lucky for me I did not suffer any serious complications however I will never forget that day.
Bees: “yo chill let me pollinate, I don’t wanna die”
Wasps: “well i have nothing else to live for, so why not get drunk”
Hornets:”BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
Finally the Warhammer 40k reference I was looking for.
Let the galaxy burn!
Skulls for the skull throne
Brother..get the flamer.....The HEAVY flamer
Ahh, an overly sarcastic productions viewer in a wild. A rare sight indeed
Here's a little extra for you all: the sting of a bee is always inherently acidic, while the sting of a wasp is inherently alkaline. Thus, a bee sting can be treated with a water and bicarbonate of soda mix and a wasp sting with vinegar, as the alkaline bicarbonate and the vinegar neutralise the respective stings.
Or you could treat a bee sting with a wasp sting.
@@BritishBeachcomber Genius, I thought he was gonna say that
The only thing either can be treated with for me is an EpiPen and a trip to the emergency room.
@Janitor Queen no they shouldn't
Lies again? Cock It Manuka Honey
Bees: *Go about their day, do their thing, if attacked then they'll sting*
Wasps and Hornets: *Literally go and seek out anyone to sting*
Wasps and Hornets be like: I SAW YOU OVER HERE MINDING YOUR BUSINESS
To be fair they mostly sting prey wasps will not sting you unless you get too close to their nest or them in general I was able to acclimate myself with a yellow Jacket Nest until they let me get quite close the their nest so I could watch them.
@@Dragrath1 - And then I watched them sting the shi... out of you.
😆
loki2240 WHEEZE 😂
While in college, a farmer donated a hive he had dug up in early winter to the biology department. Being a biology major, I found it interesting, but also asked how he knew the bees were dead. I was surprised by the answer from the science professors. "Because it's winter, they're dead."
Having grown up around bees that lived underground, I had been familiar with the concept of insects hibernating. I suggested this and was resoundingly dismissed by both professors and students. By mid winter, the bee hive was covered with a blanket, though placed in a large fish tank and almost forgotten. One day a girl lets out a scream and yells "BEE!!!!"
Immediately the others ask "where would a BEE come from in WINTER?!"
Me: "How about that 'dead' bee hive in the back of the room?"
They go look, professor equally enthralled.... pull the blanket off and shriek in horror as the 'dead' hive is now swarming with bees emerging from their all too short hibernation. It was only then they began taking my observations more seriously. I mean, I kinda earned the reputation as a joker, but thought I'd done a good job defending my explanation up to then. Not my fault they ignored my warning. :)
Yeah - not all bees migrate for winter (if any do), and those that don't instead go to ground for the colder months to stay warm enough. oh... and bees can be BLUE too!
www.losangelescountybeekeepers.com/blog/2020/5/14/floridas-long-lost-blue-bee-has-been-rediscovered
"I know I joke alot, but I, too, am a biology student..." 😂
I hope they can save the blue bee. It’s beautiful.
I grew up in Alaska and we had a lot of bugs, very few of which were capable of long distance migration. As best I understand it, most of the bugs only survive in egg form for an entire winter, with all other forms of their species completely killed off by the cold. (Adult ants may well get around this by hibernating far enough underground to avoid freezing temperatures. )
Honey bees: nature’s gift to us all
Bumble bees: Well at least they pollinate plants
Wasps: ehhh, they kill insects I guess?
Hornets: why is it so angry???
Hornets are assholes
Hornets: Nazis of the insect world.
When you say bumble, do you mean those fuzzy fat wood bees?
@@megancrager4397 Those are carpenter bees. They have a fuzzy thorax, but a smooth abdomen. Bumblebees have both a fuzzy thorax and abdomen.
@@WellPreparedTreeFrog dude everything in Australia kills things for fun. It’s proof God has a sick sense of humor lol
Hornet: "And now human, you will die."
Human with flamethrower: "Let this be a *true* battle of gods!"
@Johnston Steiner ffs
Johnston Steiner “laughs in carb clean and lighters”
There's only one true God. But I'd rather have a racquetball racquet than a flamethrower for one hornet.
@Johnston Steiner *grabs alcohol and a lighter*
Me with bunch of cardboxes, and a lighter : doo doodoo doo doo
bees: potheads
wasps: alcoholics
hornets: crackheads
Nah bees aren’t annoying
@@braydicus that kind of wit is wasted on the general populace
@@SamCork1 I would argue bees are most annoying than wasps and hornets
@@braydicus do you really find stoners annoying?
No hornets: coke heads
Bees: ouch...
Wasp: Damn !
Hornets: Son of a B...H !!!!!
Asian .Hornets: Ooh, bees!
Bees: Here, step into our oven.
Is that a ERB reference I’m detecting? Hitler v Vader🧐
You really can see the future
*Asian honey bee Japanese subspecies
Gang of 30 hornets: show up at beehive
Bees: We're in the endgame now.
This comment aged in a really unexpected way
Bees: chaotic neutral
Wasps: chaotic evil
Hornets: Actual Satan
If any insect out there is Lawful it's bees
@@ryankwok1021 is correct. Bees would be lawful neutral. They don't even understand the concept of not obeying the law of the hive.
I’d say they’re chaotic or lawful good
Chaotic good - bees
neutral evil - wasps
Chaotic evil-hornets
Lt. Viper bees are chaotic good
bee: your friend
wasp : your sibling
hornet : your mom
Usksu - XDDDDDDDDDD THIS HAA TO BE THE TOP COMMENT
,!!
Underrated
I love my mom
Oh I get it
What are you soing stepbee
Always keen to learn something, and THIS is really interesting. Well done!!!
Human:
Hornet: "So anyways I started stingin."
Bees are your friend.
Wasps are pricks.
Hornets are Hitler with wings.
BP Lup
Strange, the hornets at my house leave me alone. I can even get my hand within inches of the nest. But I do have blond hair and blue eyes, so who knows?
So hornets can revitalize a dead economy and rebuild a crippled nation to new heighs?
@@chrisevans7562 Yes, but only if it's followed by mass genocide.
BP Lup wasps and bees have all been very polite and kind to me. They are much nicer than some humans.
Then what about Japanese hornets
Bees: fluffy and cute
Wasps: assholes
Hornets: *boss music starts playing*
Boss 4 starts playing
And then there's africanised bees
@@Axle594 *lil wayne starts playing*
To be fair, the solitary wasps he mentioned (mud daubers, cicada killers) look like other wasps and aren't aggressive at all.
@@joehemmann1156 No, you're right, solitary wasps only attack people if said person makes the foolish mistake of stomping down on his "ground-burrow." Which is annoying, if said "ground-burrow" is in a place on the front lawn of your house, where stepping on them is nearly impossible to avoid (and yes, I speak from direct experience with this phenomenon. It IS a problem some properties have, where I live).
Basically, every year my wife and I have to go outdoors, seek out any ground-burrows we can find, and then, with the wasp sleeping inside it (typically during the evenings, because these wasps are not nocturnal), poison the burrow with some spray. We then cover the hole with some mesh, to prevent escape, and wait, as the wasp slowly suffocates to death inside the oxygen-stealing miasma the spray creates. Yes, that sounds cruel, but actually, the wasp dies painlessly, and in its' sleep, which is really no different than executing a criminal with a "lethal injection."
Bees: Us.
Wasps: Politicians.
Hornets: The WEF.
It’s crazy how people could just google all of these questions. We just enjoy how this guy explains things. Nice accent, and plenty of subtle personality
It's his BEARD, It's Hypnotic and holds Dark Magic! It Force's you into a trance while Simmon takes a part of your Life Force thru the screen of your device! Simmon is a very Ancient Dark Lord of POWER! All Will Bow 🙇♀️ 🙇♂️ down and bath in the Glory of his BEARDEDNESS!!!
Too true! Lol
The accent and beard make him automatically more convincing, change my mind
We need a person to explain it
Google doesn’t do a great job finding the right expert to explain things like this. You’re likely to be stuck on Wikipedia for an hour or looking at some agricultural department guidebook to field identifying insects for some specific region.
That last bit of info about the bees creating a ball to kill the hornet was a truly amazing bit of info. This is why you are one of my favorite UA-cam channels.
Reminds me of the war from Antz. Superior numbers!
Agree, really interesting! Smart little bees!
Scout killers. Pretty smart
It's amazing, until you realize the possibility that there will one day be heat-resistant giant hornets in a world that's getting warmer every year...
He's wrong in the statement the temperature is well under what the bees can handle. Pretty sure it's 117 F°, but it's very close to the lethal temperature for the wasp.
I love how he pronounces "wasps" the "spspspsps" calls the attention of my cat
Thank you. I actually laughed out loud.
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Lol
Best comment! 😁🐈🐾
That's the way you're supposed to pronounce it. He's only pronouncing it with two s's which is how it's spelled. Do you not say the second s?
I can't believe you didn't mention the fact that the overwhelming percentage of wasps, 95% roughly, are parasites or spend a significant amount of their life as a parasite. That doesn't mean they aren't doing things that benefit people during that time. It's just an important distinction that wasps alone have.
Bees: normal working joe
Wasps: the touchy neighbor who you dont want to get too close to.
Hornets: K A R E N
Bees: i won't hurt u if you don't hurt me
Wasp: don't come near me please
-Satan's children- hornets: hippitty hoppity your life is now my property
the stupid thing about this statement is that hornets are actually the most chill of all three of them.
@@windhelmguard5295 I disagree I've been around bees and there hives they're preety chill
Been around wasp and j did get stung but that was me being an idiot
My freind had a hornet nest we're he lived he walked past it and the lil fucks started trying to sting him
MOON SHATER :o
MOON SHATER he okay? Please tell me if he’s ok
@@tarniahmatthews5396 yee he's a tough sun of a bitch
Summary:
Bees: Good & Environmentally Beneficial
Wasps: Annoying & Environmentally Beneficial
Hornets: Seeks total annihilation and an apocalypse
And environmentally beneficial.
I like the solitary wasp better even turantula hawks don't care if your near them
Murder hornets show up
Bees: cute little honeymaking pollinators!
Wasp and hornets: Satan's little helpers!
Bee: flower
Wasp: alcohol
Hornet: bath salts
Hahaha 😂
Bee should be weed
@@MultiMacmiller that's kinda what I meant by "flower". I was about to write "bud" but I liked the way this flowed better and imagined that stoners would understand the double entendre. Yeah it's hard to design the perfect YT comment but we're trying out here lol
Patricio Ansaldi I feel you my boy 💯💯
LMFAO!
Bees:G Fuel
Wasps: monster energy
Hornets: Gamer girl bath water
Can’t touch this Stone weak
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 YES
Bees: I just want to make honey
Wasp: Don't tread on me
Hornets: Conquer and Destroy
Bees: nice little guys pollinate stuff OK in my book
Wasps: little jerks, vicious creatures, necessary, but mean
Hornets: if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a improvise flamethrower to their nest…
The Good = Bees
The Bad = Wasps
The Fucking Evil = Hornets
Clint Eastwood reference XD
The innocent = bumblebee
I would say the hornet is the bad
See a little street wise nigga you know me
Jay Nicks Differentely to the movie I'm affraid in this case the bad will win against the good!!
Bee: cute
Wasp: dont get to close
Hornet: cranks 90s before you can even breathe
Jamaal Ali yay another fortnite joke..
@@SillyBillyBucko79 well yes but no because i was talking about cranking on the OG building game.
Minecraft
What the fuck does that even mean?
@@jamaalali366 Techinally Roblox but okay
Level 1 Bee
Level 35 Wasp
Level 99 Hornet
This is how hives work
Alex Hornet level over 9000!!!
this thread is filled with dead jokes.
boughtwho - *say sike right now*
@@NA-tm5bc do you know da wey
boughtwho - I would say we are number one but
They’re Robbie Rotten
-also dat boi-
Yeah, I found this post very interesting. I learned quite a bit.Thank you for all the information you shared.
Bees: Cute and cuddly, good relations makes a good friendship.
Wasps: Low wealth gangsters
Hornets: Mafia
Bees: Neutral Mobs that only attack if provoked
Wasps: Hostile Mobs that Attack if you get to close
Hornets: Attacks regardless of distance or interaction and only stop when killed
Hornets: The asshole rogue player who ganks you and then camps your corpse while yelling "[Orcish] A N A L N I G G A"
JonahBoing I live in the country. I presently have two wasp nests near where I am generally interacting. One nest, on a water hose rack, I get to within 4 - 6”. As long as they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them. So far no incident has happened. Should one of them become aggressive and try to sting. They are all dead. But, so far so good.
Broadway JR A fellow roller of the d20 I see
The tactics of "overheating" the hornet is simply ingenious. Nature shows her intelligence in peculiar ways.
Yes...extremely intelligent to roll fuckloads of dice constantly and keep the best results...
It's not intelligence. It's dumb luck of thousands of years of trial and error.
@@andrewdevine3920 that is most human science as well yes
they have to be fast though as a 30,000 bees can be easily be killed by 30 asian hornets
@@DoremiFasolatido1979
I’d say that the Designer knew exactly what He was doing when he created these insanely complex insects and programmed them with this kind of behavior. :)
Couple of points to elaborate on. 1. European Wasp (Vespula germanica) in most parts of Australia it has found it’s way, have changed their behaviours compared to their cousins in Europe. They do not die off in winter. They do continue to use the same nest, often forming nests with millions of wasps. They are more aggressive and will return with many mates if they are harmed. 2. The honey bees that cover hornets/wasps to kill them with heat have a shuttle system where the hottest bees work their way to the outside to cool down and to get fresh air. This constant flow of bees means higher core temperatures, and the bees don’t get affected by the heat or carbon dioxide. It also ensures the captured wasp can’t defend agains the horde as it is constantly changing.
Japanese bees when a hornet flies up to their crib “you’re not that guy pal, you’re not that guy”
O your that guy?
Bees hugging the hornets to death is the literal manifestation of "fuck you right where you breathe."
**aggressively grabs at dick** you're not that guy
Isn't that the other way around? The Hornet is the crotch-grabbing asshole in that scenario.
Nobody:
Comment Section:
Bees:
Wasps:
Hornets:
Lmao
Was going to say this
It's fun.
So bees r nice, wasps are neutral, and hornets are the devil incarnate
Got it
Nobody, literally nobody:
One person in EVERY comment section: Nobody:
Other People: bdioaihebrudifjbsbhaijjfjsgavebbdg
The difference is that their stings hurt like hell, but in varying degrees.
FYI, if you're hanging out with a friend who thinks it's amusing to throw a stone at a bee hive..... Find better friends.
Don't. Im nice otherwise
that's where a taser comes in handy...not for the wasps either
Stings from a paper wasp or bee doesn't hurt for more than 5 seconds.
@@scottyhaines4226 true.... But the sheer volume is what frightens me. Some people also go into shock, right? Aniphilactic or something, can't spell it. I'll look it up later.
If someone I was with threw a stone at any kind of bee hive I'd immediately break both their legs and skedaddle.
Someone's gotta be sacrificed and it may as well be the one that caused the problem.
The main difference is that bees went down the vegetarian path when they split from wasps. Wasps do eat some fruit but prey on other insects as food sources for their young to feed on. There is also a group of stingless bees in Australia that produce honey as well and are excellent pollinators. There are also a great many solitary bees in Aus as well like the blue banded bee etc.
“What’s the difference between Bees, Wasp, and Hornets?”
Me: Easy, bees are nice, wasp are scary, and hornets are a more buff and scarier version of wasp.
Hornets are the Mr.X to wasps and bees
Africanized bees are prolific in AZ and have been found live in the lungs of autopsied patients!
I love the Cikada killers.
The females to be clear.
@@irishdivajeffries6668 *What?!*
How did they get in their lungs?!!!! 😱
#NightmareFuel!!
@@RainbowFlowerCrow They breathed them in and in a panic too.
*Human Stumbles upon nest*
Bee: “Eh”
Wasp: *Goes about Business*
Hornet: “𝗦𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵?”
Dimensional Warper “so you have chosen death?”
Speaking from experience, wasps do not "go about their business". They attack.
@@LtBasil they are alot more lenient though like you can walk by them and they'll check you out but normally they go back to what they were doing.
@@atlas34834 Oh, really? Tell that to the swarm of yellow jackets that attacked me simply because I was in the same basic vicinity as them. And I wasn't the only one! There were several other people who walked along the same path I did and got swarmed FOR NO REASON. I was just walking! I wasn't bothering them or anything and they attacked me anyway! So don't tell me that they're "lenient". 'Cause they're not.
@@LtBasil yellow Jackets are more ferocious but most wasps don't do that we have a nest in our backyard and me and my dad were playing catch and they were out there too and if I would get close it would fly around my legs but it didn't bother me. So I guess it really just depends on the bee and how aggressive it is too.
It's like video game difficulty:
Bee: Easy
Wasp: Medium
Hornet: Hardcore
Depends which wasp/hornet xD
Im pretty sure id rather get stinged by a hornet than an executioner wasp/warrior. Obviously tho I prefer none of that
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@@miraclewolf2760 yeah but you’d rather the executioner wasp over the Murder Hornet.
@@dkres82 I think I would honestly. The executioner wasp is rated as a 4 on the Schmidt scale, and idk where the giant hornet is.
I've found wasps and ladybugs to be the best form of pesticide, I rarely have problems with pests in my garden and I know it's because it's always swarming with predatory insects like wasps and hornets. I try to get out and water the garden while it's still cool out before they're up and about because I live in a fairly arid environment and they'll start trying to get a bit too close for comfort seeking out water, so I also leave out a water dish for them in the garden in the summer because we'll go a month without rain pretty regularly and I can't blame them for being desperate for water. I've found them to be strangely way less aggressive in this area than other places I've lived tho, not sure why
Cool tip. If you have an issue with wasps at picnics or back yard BBQs, Cut a couple apples in half and put them 20-30 yards from where your event will be happening. The cut apples will attract the wasps, keeping them away from you.
So old wasps act much like people after retirement?
Exactly my thoughts lol
Whadda you meen you young whippersnapper eh?
really difficult to find walking frames that small
So , Mr Wasp Esquire, we have every yacht that could accomodate your needs.
Pathetic! I need a yacht with real buzz to it! One with bright black and yellow stripes.
Spendid! Here's one that meets the bill!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
@@colinp2238 Is that a beer in your hand? is it good?
“Some Hornets, just want to watch the world burn” -Alfred
All*
This summer I saw my first hornets ever. She and some friends of her flew into my apartment and seemed to like it. I sprayed them with water to make them leave. All left, but she stayed. She sat on my wall and slowly turned her head to look at me. She stared at my eyes. She was magnificent, majestic, beautiful, and scary. I apologized and left the room. They never came back. And I'll never forget the look she gave me.
Get off the Internet and go outside.... Jesus, stay off of social media too