I love how they keep edging this wasp for 10 minutes. The very second he actually gets a latch, every bee in the radius is like “HE ASSAULTED THAT GUY! GET HIS ASS!”
I always hated hornets because of their violent tendencies so I'm glad that these honeybees can at least fight back. I feel sad for the ones that gave their lives to defeat that large doofus though.
hornets are not inherently bad, all animals have their places in their respective habitat. The hornet is a source of food for other animals, and regulates some animal populations, pests might overpopulate otherwise and cause problems. It's important to not enforce our morality onto animals!
@@merryxu2996the issue is that hornets are probably some of the most destructive insects around and are very aggressive even if one stays a good distance from them. They are one of the only categories of insects humans should force our morality on imo. Smaller members of Hymenoptera like bees and wasps which will not be as aggressive as hornets can probably still provide ample food sources for other animals like birds and anteaters
@@tiramisu7544they are destructive as an invasive species, honey bees in japan where they come from have lived alongside them for milions of years just fine
So what happens is, one of the honey bees volunteers to sacrifice it's own life by taking on a fight it has no chance of winning, and then the whole hive just jumps the hornet....
If they can kill the scout then they can avert catastrophe from a full on force. For them the life of one is nothing to ensuring the hive is never discovered in the first place.
Damn, those monsters take out about 30 bees before getting even half neutralised, and its just terrifying. Sad seeing this struggle but those people helping the bees are the true Warriors.
All I could hear when they started attacking the hornet was 'GET THAT BASTARD' and when the rest of the bees showed up they began chanting 'FOR THE QUEEN'
The problem is: Japanese honey bees have evolved with this defense strategy but Japan has imported honey bees from Europe (because they produce more honey). However, the European honey bees haven't evolved alongside giant hornets and don't know what to do when they get attacked. They end up facing the hornets one by one, and one by one have their heads bitten off until the whole hive is decimated.
I live in Japan and once had a hive of these guys over my barbeque grill under a covered patio. They are monsters on wings and are unforgettable. Their hive was a paper ball hive about 8" in diameter with a tapered end and a hole. It was late spring, cool, and most insects were hunkered down. I must have had one too many beers because I fired up a barbeque and didn't realize I had a large hive three feet over my head. Focused on smoking a brisket and grilling sausages, I finally noticed something, black and orange with a bulbous head and hooked pincers, with a body several inches in size, hovering nearby. The critter was checking me out and he scared the heck out of me when I realized it was a "Murder Hornet" ... a common name for this particular insect. These guys have an unbelievably painful sting, and can kill the elderly and young. I backed away and only then spotted the hive. So, I ran down to the military base PX, bought me a can of Raid wasp and hornet spray and - after carefully rolling the grill to the far side of the patio, I blasted the loathsome boogers from about 15 feet away. A few crawled out of the hive and just slowly stopped. Amazingly, they just clung to the nest then died in place. It was like they went to sleep. I emptied the entire can on that nest not knowing what was inside. Since it was a cool day, I think most of the hornets were still inside the hive and maybe the smoke from my smoldering mesquite wood chips had sedated them. I managed to get them all and after an hour or so, I knocked the hive down with a shovel and disposed of the offending fiends.
Going to a military base for supplies after such an encounter seems very appropriate. It’s unfortunate they were out of flame throwers and you had to settle for the Raid.
@@cvdinjapan7935 you have to consider the nature of the insect as a whole rather than their actions in that exact moment. Their lifestyle is theft and genocides of one of the most important and productive species on the planet: honey bees.
I'll assume like here, Canada, hornets won't fly to attack at night. It happened to me and a former girlfriend at her cottage. While chainsawing a fallen birch tree for eventual stove firewood, we both wee stull several times. I had to find the nest which I did after an hour or so. The nest was huge and just above ground level attached to a newly developing tiny pine tree branch. At dark, we started our usual pit fire which was near the nest. At total dark I put on leather working gloves and with my girlfriend behind me with the flashlight wrapped a green garbage bag around the whole hive then began the hive from tree branch separation and boy were they buzzing..pulled it off, closed the top of the bag and we returned to our drinks and the pit fire...
Thank you for making this informative video. I'm from Marysville, Washington, USA and a few years ago some of these murder hornets managed to make it over; our department of agriculture as well as gardeners have been actively on the search for these because they are a huge threat to our bees here. Some people who haven't seen the hornets in person still think the problem is exaggerated but I'll be making traps for the spring.
There's no such thing as a "murder hornet". That was a ridiculous term spread by the idiot media and clueless people ate it up. Animals can certainly kill, but the term murder only applies to humans killing other humans.
That is seriously fascinating that they generate so much heat together!! I never knew they could do such a thing… truly wonderful creatures honey bees are
To be honest the hornets have a very specific biology, their body temp is raised by even a tiny bit for too long and they die, so the bees only need to make it a degree or two hotter to kill the hornet
@@installshieldwizard3017 That’s how the original Doomsday in the Death of Superman story arc came to be: he was a Kryptonian life form that was repeatedly left to fend for itself in the harsh environment that was Krypton thousands of years ago. Each time he would die, Bertron, his creator, and other scientists would bring him back in to the lab for genetic adjustments. Doomsday would adapt, growing stronger, lasting longer each time, until he eventually got to a point where he couldn’t be killed. This is from Superman: Hunter/Prey.
As cruel as this sorta was, there were only so many ways to get this footage, and you can appreciate how a beekeeper would have limited sympathy for a hive killer
In some parts of Japan, they are considered a delicacy. If these hornets reached other parts of the world and started to eradicate western honey bees, it could cost millions of dollars in crop damage. Just hypothetically speaking.
Typically the hornets will wait outside the entrances and just pick them off one by one. Not sure if that would help save some of the colony that bunkers inside or not.
There’s another method they did by putting up a plastic covering with holes for their open air colony. The bees can go through the holes but the holes are too small for the hornets to get in and raid the combs.
What about a "cage/raster" surrounding the hives with holes only big enough for the bees. In this way the bees can see where the hornets are located, or the hornets will give up quicker as they can't reach the hives...
3:35 "My soldiers, rage! My soldiers, scream! My soldiers, fight!" [cue epic soundtrack] In all seriousness though, the ways that both species have specifically evolved to adapt to each other (iirc the wasps evolved first into a raider-like species that uses their proportionally large size and strength to kill and steal from other insects, while the Japanese honeybee develop a literal deathball sauna to counter them) is just absolutely fascinating
Living here in Japan I once spent an entire afternoon watching wild bees coming in and out of their hive inside a tree along a river bank. As I sat there all afternoon captivated by these bees it was amazing to note for a people who claim to "love nature" not one person who walked by noticed the bees flying around. I then watched several giant hornets hovering around the entrance to the hive with the wild bees forming a large clump that started "shivering" when the hornets threatened to get closer to the entrance.
Most Japanese I know here in Japan try to avoid nature. The younger they are, the more they avoid it. A tiny gnat in the classroom can cause chaos among the students!
@@earlysda Funny. I went to a wedding once when everyone was standing outside waiting for the bride and groom to exit. A big fly or maybe a bumblebee started hovering overhead. The staff lost all control. One guy gets a step ladder and emptied almost an entire spray can of insecticide on the thing and it some how managed to survive that. I could not fathom what I was witnessing.
"Only in death, one's duty ends" They served their empire proudly, and hold the hive line without giving up an inch earning their place beside the ones that came before them.
The honey bee is afraid, but has courage. Despite knowing their ultimate fate, they continue the mission. Like a true warrior, walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Thanks for the Russian subtitles! Watching these insects is very interesting, especially with my mild insectophobia. This allows you to safely come into contact with such an interesting world of insects. Good luck, beekeeping is a very important branch of animal husbandry!
Hornet: so you chose death huh? Bee that sacrificed himself: not death. *SACRIFICE* . Hive: *LETS JUMP THIS MOTHA FUCKA!!!!* Hornet: *terrified demonic screams*
It's a little odd to me that western bees haven't really adapted to use this trick to kill invading hornets, giant asian hornets or otherwise. To my knowledge, the worker bees use this same technique to dispatch a queen if they feel she's no longer a productive queen or if you try to add an additional queen to a nest that already has a queen in it. They'll ball her up and kill her this same way, it just doesn't take nearly the same number of bees to do it.
Adapted in what like a week month year? Evolution doesn't happen overnight because someone brought Western insects to the East where there are predators that kills them
One Japanese bee keeper has metal hives that has a small opening of metal that is big enough to allow the honey bee though but too small for the hornet. He captures one hornet with a butterfly net and sticks it to a rat glue trap and the pheromones attract more hornets who get stuck.
Asian Giant Hornet Scout: *Catches a Suicide Bee* Suicide Bee: I-I die for the Queeeeeeen~...! *dies* Rest of the Hive: *Attack* WE FIGHT FOR THE QUEEN!!!!!
As someone watching from the US • I remain glad we do not have these Giant hornets here in the US (yet) • This is a good demonstration of how bee pheromones are used to address the threat to the colony • Thanks so very much for posting and sharing! All the best and God Bless. 🙏❤🇺🇸
@@divinitaliusgaming6167I believe there have been no confirmed Japanese giant hornet sighting in the US in like 2 years? Unsure how true that is, but if it is…thank the lord!
@@lotusinn3 Yes there hasn't been a sighting since 2021. Apparently there are still vigilant searches just to be sure, continued for at least 3 years after the last sighting as suggested by federal guidelines.
Some doofus let their army ant colony of about 1,000 loose near my neighborhood. Every native ant colony, black and red, made a sort of informal coalition against the invaders, and used a similar swarming strategy to defeat the Army ants in only about 21 days. It was pretty fascinating to see the coalition gradually win important battles, and giving them some support myself.
The honey bees that gave their lives for the colony will not be forgotten.
Sorry, I had forgotten. They all looked the same. 😂
@@classiccasualgaming 😆
F
Yes they will. It's nature, not Braveheart.
@@nolanbeckrivera6408😂
The honey bee heat ball is easily one of the coolest defensive moves of any insect
Sounds like a move in Pokémon
It can’t be tho, can it? It’s one of the hottest…no?
@@enriqueperezarce5485 imagine vespiqueen being viable
I like how you said that. The HEAT ball is a COOL defense.
why cant the bees just sting the hornet?
I love how they keep edging this wasp for 10 minutes. The very second he actually gets a latch, every bee in the radius is like “HE ASSAULTED THAT GUY! GET HIS ASS!”
Maybe they can train the bees to attack faster 😅
It's like watching a bully get bullied but both sides insist the other one strikes first
Just like cops
@theserpxyeah like what does that even mean
Stop saying edging
I always hated hornets because of their violent tendencies so I'm glad that these honeybees can at least fight back. I feel sad for the ones that gave their lives to defeat that large doofus though.
hey man, what works works. they have been around for so long.
hornets are not inherently bad, all animals have their places in their respective habitat. The hornet is a source of food for other animals, and regulates some animal populations, pests might overpopulate otherwise and cause problems. It's important to not enforce our morality onto animals!
@@merryxu2996 they can have their place, that's well and good. I just hope that place is well over a mile away from me at all times.
@@merryxu2996the issue is that hornets are probably some of the most destructive insects around and are very aggressive even if one stays a good distance from them. They are one of the only categories of insects humans should force our morality on imo. Smaller members of Hymenoptera like bees and wasps which will not be as aggressive as hornets can probably still provide ample food sources for other animals like birds and anteaters
@@tiramisu7544they are destructive as an invasive species, honey bees in japan where they come from have lived alongside them for milions of years just fine
Those bees take the idea "you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us" very seriously
👍👍
"Full metal jacket"
Honey bee version NATO’s Article V
giving me zombie pigman vibes
I saw a video giant hornets massacre European bees
My man didn’t want no smoke but it was forced upon him
LMAO
“Micheal don’t leave me here!”
'Guys help! These guys are psychos, they ripped out my stinger and tied me to some solder. I don't even want to be here man please!'
Fuck him, if he was in a group he would try a hive sooner or later, it a good way to make sure the Bees have a plan then they naturally come
tad unfair because it isn't in a group
I love how calm she is when she narrates this while the bees are on the war taking down their enemy
7:00 LOL the fucking happy music with the bees microwaving the hornet to death
Imagine this starts playing at someone's funeral service
@@IHaveNoIdeaWhatsoeverI'll have it play at mine lol
Queen : "Is he dead?"
Bee: "Yes Milady"
Queen: "Good, hang him on the entrance of the Hornets nest and send them my regards"
I think you meant " Yes, your majesty ".
ههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه 😂
😂
Ape: "si maestà, eseguiremo l'ordine quando la mantide e il ragno qui fuori, se ne saranno andati!"
So what happens is, one of the honey bees volunteers to sacrifice it's own life by taking on a fight it has no chance of winning, and then the whole hive just jumps the hornet....
If they can kill the scout then they can avert catastrophe from a full on force. For them the life of one is nothing to ensuring the hive is never discovered in the first place.
So that others may live.
Yes.
@@graveyardshift6691 my life for aiurr!!
@@graveyardshift6691 Exactly, the scout has to die to save the hive.
Damn, those monsters take out about 30 bees before getting even half neutralised, and its just terrifying. Sad seeing this struggle but those people helping the bees are the true Warriors.
monsters? the hornet is just living its life. same as the bees
Like real life Pikmin
@@magicdolphin3090no
@@magicdolphin3090the difference is hornets are assholes
@@magicdolphin3090 Hornets are cunts, they are annoying for no damn reason.
All I could hear when they started attacking the hornet was 'GET THAT BASTARD' and when the rest of the bees showed up they began chanting 'FOR THE QUEEN'
The size of that hornet is freakish. 😰
Man that's a big one
I mean they are called giant hornets for a reason
yup, and these monsters are also in western countries and kill some humans every year (more than 50 to 100 hits)
And the death of it is brutal. Some kings always fall - random dude
@@pratnamararely however it is true I saw one last year avoided it cause they sting for fun
Imagine when the hornet enters the bee hive and the last thing it heard was japanese honey bee's "banzai charge"
Omfg. 😂
When they jump the hornet I can feel the ''FOR GLORY'' feeling that captures the bees in their massive charge.
バンザイ突撃かなり好き
女王陛下万歳!!
Better than hearing that narrators voice as the last thing you hear.😏
Bee: they got jerry!!!! GET HIM!!!
hornet: oh s**t
“Despite appearing to be dead the bees are still swarming the hornet.”
_HGTV music intensifies_
Such a gay, childish comment with all that "music intensifies"..
@@chipngo9758 You look like the kind of guy whose breath stinks like shit.
It’s like a bear being smothered to death by hundreds of rabbits: it sounds ridiculous, but in reality would be incredibly disturbing to witness.
Disturbing? That’d be awesome to see
@@blackpill1420 I'd pay.
*Behold an unthinkable present*
I think I’d be more disturbed by a teenager being devoured by rabbits than a bear being practically body-swaddled to death.
@@Idkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk50 Random, but true
The problem is: Japanese honey bees have evolved with this defense strategy but Japan has imported honey bees from Europe (because they produce more honey). However, the European honey bees haven't evolved alongside giant hornets and don't know what to do when they get attacked. They end up facing the hornets one by one, and one by one have their heads bitten off until the whole hive is decimated.
European honey bees do the same with European hornets though. They're not as large as a Japanese Hornet but can decimate a bee hive nonetheless.
Yea I guarantee you can wait a million years and those western bees will be the same.
No proof for evolution, only theories
@@Tony.795why are they not doing it with the larger hornet?
And they dont speak japanese so they cant learn from the japanese bees
They are an invasive species so, good.
So cool to see how smart bees actually are.
they aint , they just controlled by DNA
inb4 some 30 yo goes "smarter than most humans"
@@timesliceTru tho
@@timeslicethey wouldn’t be wrong then lul
Tbh I think it's more innate behaviour oike a fixed action pattern then something they actively think about
The hornet like "damn yall just gon film them killing me!?" 😂
Kudos to the beekeeper who filmed this. She did a great job!
“NOT THE BEES!!!!!!!” -that hornet probably lol
Omg 😂😂
Haaha😂😂😂
"THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAAAAUGHHAGHGH!!!"
@@kirk1968 PJRJFBSK- 🤣 This is why I love the Internet! 👏
@@elitadream Me too! So great that only some of us knew that reference, haha! 😂
Hornets and Bees: Go to war
Video: happy music
Do you want linkin park? In the end it doesn't really matter!!!!!!
@@Rico0333 Jericho Circle of Dust Remix would hit hard.
R.I.P All the bees that were lost. They will be remembered.
...by name
I live in Japan and once had a hive of these guys over my barbeque grill under a covered patio. They are monsters on wings and are unforgettable. Their hive was a paper ball hive about 8" in diameter with a tapered end and a hole. It was late spring, cool, and most insects were hunkered down. I must have had one too many beers because I fired up a barbeque and didn't realize I had a large hive three feet over my head. Focused on smoking a brisket and grilling sausages, I finally noticed something, black and orange with a bulbous head and hooked pincers, with a body several inches in size, hovering nearby. The critter was checking me out and he scared the heck out of me when I realized it was a "Murder Hornet" ... a common name for this particular insect. These guys have an unbelievably painful sting, and can kill the elderly and young. I backed away and only then spotted the hive. So, I ran down to the military base PX, bought me a can of Raid wasp and hornet spray and - after carefully rolling the grill to the far side of the patio, I blasted the loathsome boogers from about 15 feet away. A few crawled out of the hive and just slowly stopped. Amazingly, they just clung to the nest then died in place. It was like they went to sleep. I emptied the entire can on that nest not knowing what was inside. Since it was a cool day, I think most of the hornets were still inside the hive and maybe the smoke from my smoldering mesquite wood chips had sedated them. I managed to get them all and after an hour or so, I knocked the hive down with a shovel and disposed of the offending fiends.
Going to a military base for supplies after such an encounter seems very appropriate. It’s unfortunate they were out of flame throwers and you had to settle for the Raid.
I mean all that he would've needed is a lighter and it could've been enough to have a flamethrower, although it probs wouldn't be as effective or safe
u could have been barbecue
@@cvdinjapan7935 you have to consider the nature of the insect as a whole rather than their actions in that exact moment. Their lifestyle is theft and genocides of one of the most important and productive species on the planet: honey bees.
I'll assume like here, Canada, hornets won't fly to attack at night. It happened to me and a former girlfriend at her cottage. While chainsawing a fallen birch tree for eventual stove firewood, we both wee stull several times. I had to find the nest which I did after an hour or so. The nest was huge and just above ground level attached to a newly developing tiny pine tree branch.
At dark, we started our usual pit fire which was near the nest. At total dark I put on leather working gloves and with my girlfriend behind me with the flashlight wrapped a green garbage bag around the whole hive then began the hive from tree branch separation and boy were they buzzing..pulled it off, closed the top of the bag and we returned to our drinks and the pit fire...
RESPECT to all the bees that got decapitated by the wasp during the process. Their sacrifice saved everyone else
If the wasp wasn’t put there, there was nobody decapites
They're all sisters.
@@Mikhromanovhornet
It's a hornet, and not a wasp.
An old saying from Germany: "You are nothing, your people are everything."
Thank you for making this informative video. I'm from Marysville, Washington, USA and a few years ago some of these murder hornets managed to make it over; our department of agriculture as well as gardeners have been actively on the search for these because they are a huge threat to our bees here. Some people who haven't seen the hornets in person still think the problem is exaggerated but I'll be making traps for the spring.
There's no such thing as a "murder hornet". That was a ridiculous term spread by the idiot media and clueless people ate it up. Animals can certainly kill, but the term murder only applies to humans killing other humans.
Big respect to whoever had the balls to actually take the hornet and strap a string to it and also remove its stinger. They made a pet out of it :D
Then they sent it to its death, rip hornet lol
I would want one as pet
They probably froze it
Those hornets are massive - I didn’t realise quite how big they were!
I saw one in East Tennessee once. They aren’t native to that area but somehow it got trapped in my porch. TERRIFYINGLY huge.
@@obi-wankenobi1750 I’d run and burn the house down 😂
They can also kill humans
@@obi-wankenobi1750 Did you take the high ground?
@@megsmith6758 he has the higher ground, no need
Bees : *OUR HOOD IS UNDER ATTACK*
The hornet: THEY JUMPING ME!
That is seriously fascinating that they generate so much heat together!! I never knew they could do such a thing… truly wonderful creatures honey bees are
They f*ck*ng killed a guy that was forced to die by humans
Aggreed
To be honest the hornets have a very specific biology, their body temp is raised by even a tiny bit for too long and they die, so the bees only need to make it a degree or two hotter to kill the hornet
Western bees: let them die
Japanese bees:LET EM COOK!
Because you don’t understand vibrations look into it more you’ll learn bees aren’t the only ones who can heat some ish up
Damn those Bees really hated that Hornet
They wouldn't get off of it despite it being overkilled
They gotta send a message to the other wasps.
the bee cartel
😅 lol
If they let the wasp escape, they all died that same day.
He got caught lacking on opps block
3:41 the wasp will be like: GET THIS BEES OFF ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Nice taylor1 reference
"Stinger removed for her safety and tied."
Hornet:
"What is the point???"
Imagine how long it took for these honeybees to evolve and adapt to fight against these hornets, nature is truly amazing at finding a way.
Especially considering that nothing has ever evolved!
God created them so yes they are great
She’s just like “don’t mind me just taking my giant hornet out for a walk”
I love how there was happy, carefree music playing throughout the Flight of the Murderball
3:51 "THEY JUMPING ME"
THEY JUMPING ME!!!!
SAVE YOUR BOY!
"Hot defensive bee ball" sounds like a soccer maneuver.
Damn Hornet played the “fuck around & find out” game
Well to be fair it kinda got forced into the fight. :p
Aka the scientific method
Bee ball is such a delightful combination of words. Bee ball!
4:02 bros own moment of "i have no mouth but i must scream"
3:00 that’s the equivalent of opening your front door and instantly being grabbed by a 10 meter tall gorilla who’s trying to eat you
Love the light hearted guitar tunes in the background of this hornet getting absolutely nailed by a ball of bees
I’m actually really impressed by their coordination when they all jumped it at the same time
5:13 why does it looks like a dogfood walking😂😂
I would not know what was happening without this lady explaining. Thank you so much
She once did a compelling narration for an audiobook entitled "Water is Wet".
I'm more fascinated with how they removed the stinger and put a leash on the hornet 😂
Then they resuscitated it and made it fight the bees again and again, until it's the John wick of hornets
@@installshieldwizard3017 That’s how the original Doomsday in the Death of Superman story arc came to be: he was a Kryptonian life form that was repeatedly left to fend for itself in the harsh environment that was Krypton thousands of years ago.
Each time he would die, Bertron, his creator, and other scientists would bring him back in to the lab for genetic adjustments.
Doomsday would adapt, growing stronger, lasting longer each time, until he eventually got to a point where he couldn’t be killed.
This is from Superman: Hunter/Prey.
This music choice is crazy for what we just witnessed
I've recently become interested about the bee world and the more I learn the more I'm fascinated. Nice video, keep it up.
3:44 "fight back nigga, fight back" 😂😂
LMFAOOO I was jus bouta comment this 😂😂😂
4:30 The camerabee always survives
NICE!😂
Heard of this years ago. First video for me. Amazing. Those hornets are monsters.
At first sight of the thumbnail I thought the hornet was wearing some drip jacket
As cruel as this sorta was, there were only so many ways to get this footage, and you can appreciate how a beekeeper would have limited sympathy for a hive killer
Complaint everything
Not cruel at at all. It’s called nature.
Nature is cruel.
In some parts of Japan, they are considered a delicacy. If these hornets reached other parts of the world and started to eradicate western honey bees, it could cost millions of dollars in crop damage. Just hypothetically speaking.
"Cruel" it's a hornet.
Maybe Japanese beekeepers could make the entrances into the beehive too small for the hornets.
I think they did that already. I saw it on another video
Typically the hornets will wait outside the entrances and just pick them off one by one. Not sure if that would help save some of the colony that bunkers inside or not.
There’s another method they did by putting up a plastic covering with holes for their open air colony. The bees can go through the holes but the holes are too small for the hornets to get in and raid the combs.
@@stupidjones1223 they would decimate the whole family before realising they couldn’t get iy
What about a "cage/raster" surrounding the hives with holes only big enough for the bees. In this way the bees can see where the hornets are located, or the hornets will give up quicker as they can't reach the hives...
Giant hornet: "who are you?"
All japanese honey bees: " IM JOHN CENA!"
Giant hornet: Oh imma mess these bees up!
Japanese bees:….BANZAI!!!!
03:30 these 3 chad bees who attacked the giant hornet first definetly deserve the medal of bees
The hornet: Alright I will leave!
The bees: TOO LATE! You killed one of our workmates!
3:45
Giant Hornet: HELP HELP
Japanese Honey bees: Never
3:35 "My soldiers, rage! My soldiers, scream! My soldiers, fight!" [cue epic soundtrack]
In all seriousness though, the ways that both species have specifically evolved to adapt to each other (iirc the wasps evolved first into a raider-like species that uses their proportionally large size and strength to kill and steal from other insects, while the Japanese honeybee develop a literal deathball sauna to counter them) is just absolutely fascinating
Attack on Titans?
@@thebestevertherewas +1 for getting the reference
Attack on titen Erwin speech
Beerwin smith 😂😂😂
shinzo wo sasagaeyo!
Damn, that was like a switch was thrown, how quickly the bees went from "Disengage and Avoid" mode to "KILL".
Host to giant hornet: “Don’t worry, it’s just a quick video for UA-cam-you’ll be fine”
It took me a long time to figure out Bees are a lot like Ants because once when one is attacked they all start swarming
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
When the bees covered the hornet's face in a split second, preventing it from biting anymore, I laughed out loud. 😂
Hilarious wasn’t it
Living here in Japan I once spent an entire afternoon watching wild bees coming in and out of their hive inside a tree along a river bank. As I sat there all afternoon captivated by these bees it was amazing to note for a people who claim to "love nature" not one person who walked by noticed the bees flying around. I then watched several giant hornets hovering around the entrance to the hive with the wild bees forming a large clump that started "shivering" when the hornets threatened to get closer to the entrance.
Most Japanese I know here in Japan try to avoid nature. The younger they are, the more they avoid it. A tiny gnat in the classroom can cause chaos among the students!
@@earlysda Funny. I went to a wedding once when everyone was standing outside waiting for the bride and groom to exit. A big fly or maybe a bumblebee started hovering overhead. The staff lost all control. One guy gets a step ladder and emptied almost an entire spray can of insecticide on the thing and it some how managed to survive that. I could not fathom what I was witnessing.
@@hydrogreen1111 Sounds like a movie scene!😂
@@earlysda Almost. Observing what is going on is tranquilizing.
@@earlysda
If they have hornets that big I don't blame them for avoiding nature, that thing is a devil spawn
"Only in death, one's duty ends" They served their empire proudly, and hold the hive line without giving up an inch earning their place beside the ones that came before them.
In the title looks like a very buffed bee
The honey bee is afraid, but has courage. Despite knowing their ultimate fate, they continue the mission. Like a true warrior, walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Been spending most of my life living in a gangsters paradise
Think they should be called Samurai Honeybees for that?
Bruh, the giant hornet didnt even want to enter the hive lol
@@TheRecklessBraverythere was a wire hold the hornet back
@@thejanitor5671 bruh, its literally what i mean
POV: you hit one zombie pig in Minecraft be like 4:17
Lol
i have never before seen bees this angry yet fighting for their hive
I wonder what would happen if Western and Japanese honeybees teamed up?
Thanks for the Russian subtitles! Watching these insects is very interesting, especially with my mild insectophobia. This allows you to safely come into contact with such an interesting world of insects. Good luck, beekeeping is a very important branch of animal husbandry!
I have an insane insectophobia and even I am watching fascinated. 😅
Шершню буквально дали прикурить.
Это русский шершень прилетел к бедным киевским пчелкам😢
Шершню просто оказали горячий приём. Во всех смыслах.
Hornet: so you chose death huh?
Bee that sacrificed himself: not death. *SACRIFICE* .
Hive: *LETS JUMP THIS MOTHA FUCKA!!!!*
Hornet: *terrified demonic screams*
hornet: "ayo they jumpin me! THEY JUMPIN MEEE!!!"
Lol the zoomed in slowmo of the hornet while it is fighting for its life
It's a little odd to me that western bees haven't really adapted to use this trick to kill invading hornets, giant asian hornets or otherwise. To my knowledge, the worker bees use this same technique to dispatch a queen if they feel she's no longer a productive queen or if you try to add an additional queen to a nest that already has a queen in it. They'll ball her up and kill her this same way, it just doesn't take nearly the same number of bees to do it.
not odd since the animals evolved on continents seperated by the Pacific ocean
西洋ミツバチと日本ミツバチは、違う種類で、日本ミツバチは、スズメ蜂と古代から、敵対関係に有った為に防衛手段を得たのに対して、西洋ミツバチは、天敵で有る、スズメ蜂が居なかった為に、熱殺蜂球と言う防衛手段をもちえなかったのです。
Western honey bees are imported. They’ve never grown around these hornets because they’re not common in us and Europe
because they haven’t learned to use that same approach with hornets. there are no hornets to them so they have no general defensive measure
Adapted in what like a week month year? Evolution doesn't happen overnight because someone brought Western insects to the East where there are predators that kills them
5:54 they're like NONONO! HES NOT DEAD YET
6:53 "we can see the face of the hornet, at least what's left of it"
Outstanding footage! The bees are of one mind and were strategizing!
I love this defense -the needs of the hive ahead of the needs of one bee.
The bees that stick around after the hornet is dead, might be trying to cover up the hornet's death pheromone.
*"FIGHT BACK! FIGHT BACK!! NAH LET HIM GET UP LET EM GET UP, STING HIM AGAIN"*
thats all i heard.
Your video was awesome. Thanks for CREATING and SHARING.
One Japanese bee keeper has metal hives that has a small opening of metal that is big enough to allow the honey bee though but too small for the hornet. He captures one hornet with a butterfly net and sticks it to a rat glue trap and the pheromones attract more hornets who get stuck.
That's this channel lol
That's this channel, and it's "she" not he......
It was another channel with a HE as in male.
Ngl them bees swarmed that Hornet too quick. It gives me the vibe that if any other bug tried it, he would’ve caught the same treatment 😭
Giant hornet: THEY JUMPING ME, THEY JUMPING ME!
bees:FOR HONOR!
HORNET:*TERRIFIED SCREAMING*
The first bee: "HELP! HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"
Asian Giant Hornet Scout: *Catches a Suicide Bee*
Suicide Bee: I-I die for the Queeeeeeen~...! *dies*
Rest of the Hive: *Attack* WE FIGHT FOR THE QUEEN!!!!!
As someone watching from the US
• I remain glad we do not have these Giant hornets here in the US (yet)
• This is a good demonstration of how bee pheromones are used to address the threat to the colony
• Thanks so very much for posting and sharing!
All the best and God Bless. 🙏❤🇺🇸
Oh, my brother in christ we do, they're called "Murder Hornets" in the USA.
@@divinitaliusgaming6167I believe there have been no confirmed Japanese giant hornet sighting in the US in like 2 years? Unsure how true that is, but if it is…thank the lord!
Bee keepers in the US should come up with a method so their bees can defend themselves from hornets
@@lotusinn3 Yes there hasn't been a sighting since 2021. Apparently there are still vigilant searches just to be sure, continued for at least 3 years after the last sighting as suggested by federal guidelines.
@@michaelr8189 That makes complete sense!
Killed by the warmth and love of hugs
Some doofus let their army ant colony of about 1,000 loose near my neighborhood. Every native ant colony, black and red, made a sort of informal coalition against the invaders, and used a similar swarming strategy to defeat the Army ants in only about 21 days. It was pretty fascinating to see the coalition gradually win important battles, and giving them some support myself.
3:52 i swear he is looking at the camerawoman like "help me you bitch!"
Omgg xdd
I’m dead
bees be like, "stop resisting! Stop resisting!"
The Queen must have given command. Very intelligent and loyal
I am so surprised there isn't a fire type bee Pokemon inspired by these awesome lil guys.
Bees: we must do this for the imperial air forces of BANZAI
Hornet: hELP HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!