Why Puerto Rico's Killer Bees Stopped Killing
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2015
- Upon their arrival in Puerto Rico, killer bees caused one human death a year. But something strange began to happen -- they became gentler.
From: SECRETS OF THE HIVE
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Casually holding a swarm of killer bees should at the very least be considered a minor super power
Forget Thanos' gauntlet! I have a fistful of Africanized Bees!
Minor superpower? ... I'd go with one of most awesome superpowers.
Its got to be at least as good as a bunch of ants, if not better.
@@coyoteken1000 is there a superhero who uses ant power?
susan
Antman. Can shrink down to the size of an ant and has the strength of an ant. Then there is Ant (alter ego Hannah Washington) from “Ant” published by Image Comics.
The bees got nerfed with the recent patch.
They nerfed bees and they buffed Frost Mages again, WTF.
LOL
the warlock is perma nerfed since circa 2006
Nerfed bad
Bahahahaha
Bees: 'hey maybe if we stop being dicks and killing people, everyone won't hate us.'
+Mike G Bees in South, Central and North America: Naahhhh Mayunee! Keep being dicks and they'll respect our hives mayune!
there are no truer words ever spoken. Ty for this comment. Please take a moment to watch my content.
They found a much safer home. Watching that one bee mid air cartwheel from the rain was kinda hilarious. Poor little lady 😅
They finally learnt to BEEhave.
Yeah, yeah, I'll find my own way out.
You're just Bee' ing silly
I BEE-lieve you should!
@James Sloan Well, I was hoping to create a buzz.
Tippy Magoo that pun STUNG me
you and your sweet honeyed words
Hero punches the villain with a fist of killer bees. Credits roll.
It looks like we found The Pain from Metal Gear Solid 3. ^_^
Ant man 3
They literally adapted to their new environment.
Less competition for resources means less robbing.
@@merholland8707 and a need to stockpile for resource scare period.
Bees are frequently their own predators. Strong hives will rob out hives that aren't well guarded and yes, being proactive against outside threats is probably why their behavior developed initially.
Scarce resources must be hoarded and guarded for the colony to survive. When resources are plentiful it becomes less of an issue.
Life finds a way
In before a creationist starts screaming that _they are still bees!!_
Maybe it's due to the fact soldier bees are largely unnecessary, so those colonies that don't waste food by producing and rearing them live longer.
You talk like you think there is some genetic difference between the guardian/forager/hive worker bees. There isn't - all worker bees go through all three jobs as they mature. The recently hatched are not mature enough to protect the hive or forage, so they care of larvae and clean the hive. As they get older, they become guardian bees. After some time as guardians, they become foragers - and remain foragers for the rest of their lives.
So the only real variable is how many days the bees remain as guardians before becoming foragers. The queen herself does not determine this ratio - all she does is lay eggs. So the worker bees themselves must figure it out. Maybe it is a matter of how fast the bees go through the various stages of maturity.
@@buggsy5 are you sure the queen doesnt control that ratio by hormonal secretions? ive always assumed the queen had more control then given credit for, just anecdotal observation. my dad kept bees.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Very certain. We know for a fact that all worker bees go through the same life stages/processes. So ALL forager bees were once guardian bees aka "soldier bees", who previously were nurse bees. The queen has less control than previously thought... example, it's not the queen that decided when to swarm, it's the hive and one of the ways they prep the queen is by not allowing her to lay, they chase her from the cells, and this helps her abdomen to shrink so she can fly when the time comes, and then they bully her out of the hive and they're the ones that pick where to go.
As far as anyone knows, the queen doesn't make any choice in the numbers ratio of the hive. all she does is lay the eggs. The workers even determine how many drones by deciding how many drone cells to build in the hive. (This of course goes out the window with an infertile queen who lays drone eggs instead of worker eggs.. but the point stands)
@@buggsy5 finally a comment from someone who knows something about bees.
Perhaps in this environment where there's so few opponents (I assume), this is true. I think it's more to do with the wet season causing such a hamper on foraging, the hive needs as many as possible to get what little it can.
It's because of social outreach programs for inner city bees. ;)
LOL i dam near spit my wine out lol ha hahahahahahahah
Drinking wine while watching youtube videos its the first step to become a serial killer...
It's because they were blown out to sea by the hurricane.
Yeah, midnight B-ball.
And it worked! Who would have known :D
It's because of the Puerto Rican rum. A little goes a long way.
Andy R.
Chills me out!
Lol i prefer bourbon lol
Lol🤣🤣
Gan-ja
Lol
They have fewer threats that require focus on defense so they place more emphasis on the economy.
I wish we did the same.
*sigh* you underestimate the need for the defense budget
Lmbo
All we need to do is remove the criminal Democrats then we can start on the republicans.
Not true. Its simple selection. The aggressive hives were killed.
@@ralphgresham6327 I believe the most effective means is to place, underneath Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, a giant wood chipper or garbage disposal and open the floor up underneath them. Start over from scratch afterwards. With, applying to all, a 2 term limit of no more than 6 years per.
The ultimate example how an organism is a product of its environment.
THAT MANS GOT BALLS TO HANDLE WITH DANGER BEES :()
@Michael Ward killers were NOT mellow swarming when they first got here. killed people dogs horses. normal bees are mellow swarming.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Even killer bees are mellow when swarming. This was demonstrated by a man in Panama who did the same thing decades ago, he even picked up chunks of the killer bee swarm, and he didn't get stung once. When they're not swarming is when they are extremely aggressive. This video makes me wonder if there are any other areas where they have calmed down.
@@carnivalwrestler Haight-Ashbury.
In Africa they have Honey Badgers that ravage the hives.
Honey badger don't care.
Since there are no wild honey badgers in Puerto Rico, bees became less agressive, plus the probably mixed too much with native less agressive bees
@@alternator7893 But the narrator already said that after a genetic test that's not the case here.
If you listen in the end of the video where he details his hypothesis. The fact that the hive needs more workers than soldiers so they can stockpile food for the rainy season when there's no flowers and pollen. That would seem like the most likely explanation.
@@alternator7893 When they hit that orange flower nectar it makes them almost defenseless ,you really have to squeeze them to get a sting ,when a skunk bothers them at night they nothing but aggressive
The African bees these were bred with, had very high honey production - and very high agression. This was a nessesary set of traits for the environment - Africa.
Outside of african style environments with it's climate and predators, that hyperagression is no longer needed. Maintaining such a large force of warriors is just a reource drain. The wet season might have expediated that adaptation, but it is generally where they are going.
EXPEDITED.
But ... but ... what about corona virus!! It's going to multiply and wipe all of us out!! Run!! Run!! Shelter in place!! Shelter in place!! Hide!! Hide!! Run!! Run!! Sometimes it's not hard to think bees are smarter than the average human.
@@mjremy2605 Ah, that was the word I could not remember. Thanks.
@@davesmith5656 this is a video about bees, nothing about a corona virus. please stop.
@@jackalope_hunter He can not help himself. No other way to fullfill his dreams of becomming a mass murderer.
its also possible that since our first instinct when we encounter a possible threat, like aggressive killer bees, is to neutralize it, that and the fact that since highly aggressive bees would suffer high mortality rates from stinging, could have acted as a selecting force. in any case i'm glad this situation hasn't gotten nearly as bad as was initially feared. In fact i've heard that in many parts of the US beekeepers have begun raising killer bees, they are more productive than standard european honeybees and can tolerate more arid climates if I recall correctly, which is why they were originally created.
They weren't created. They were imported from Africa.
@mario pokenerd And it turns out that they are resistant to a particular virulent disease that European Honeybees are prone to, so it seems that the original Dr Frankenstein experiment that created the monster Bees might have ended up as a success if the Africanised ones have now adapted in this manner. Human Meddling in Matters We Should Not Know Of, 1 - Nature, 0. In your face, Nature!
This is also known as the Kalergi Plan.
I have seen farms with multiple hives where all the hives were normal but one. One even went and killed one of their chickens and injured other farm animals.
I’m thinking I encountered a swarm of Africanized bees in an old dilapidated barn near Speedwell Virginia about 2- years back?!
Its because they've been sneaking into the Bacardi Factory at night. They are all mellowed Out.
Five year later... why are we not talking about this? Remember when Americans were TERRIFIED of Killer Bees????
Because no drama for media. "Killer bees attack!" is not the same as "No attack of killer bees in years."
Yeah...that Anthrax album really freaked me out.
This is fantastic! I love this idea that the weather could play such a major role in both having a robust hive that fends off varroa mites, but are also gentler to handle.
It may also be a "cultural" difference because of the need for more foragers; the other thing that occurs to me is that, if every sting leads to a dead bee, the massive attack response would be very costly to the hive so less aggression may leave the hive better able to survive.
But the same would be true for africanized bees everywhere else but they remain highly aggressive
With fewer 'soldier' bees, the relative cost of losing them is greater too.
killer bees never been the same since ODB passed. RIP 🙏🙏💯
🤣🤣🤣
Could this man have to do something with the killer bees? 📺🎙
🤣🤣🤣🖤
They beat their swords into ploughshares
killer bees in Arizona appear to have mellowed out as well. instead of stinging people as much, they will bump them in the forhead or chest. Bees like me for some reason, even the killers. my orange trees are covered in blossoms right now and there are killers with their smaller, darker bodies, higher pitched wing beats and more attitude, and regular italian bees that are really mellow towards people. They fight over blossoms on the orange trees. Ill be walking by since my two trees are right outside my shop and the bees will fight angrly in the air in front of my face. Both types ignore me. several times ive been with other people who the bees didnt like and they got bumped which really freaked my wife out when the first killer swarm moved into my yard and bumped her a couple of times. They didnt stay, thankfully, but moved on after two days. Same with several buddies out hiking, in a very narrow gorge spring, going up on a 65 degree angle, tangled in brush nowhere to go but up the super narrow trail, they started bumping my buddies, but not me. They didnt sting anyone. but my buddies were freaked a bit.
Soooo... Creatures become more aggressive when deprived of adequate resources for living? Interesting....
This is very interesting. The bees are warning instead of attacking. Which is smarter. And it seems they 'know' you and dont warn or attack just wait for you to move on, like they know you will. Makes you think and wonder about adaptability on a cellular level and communication between hives for sure.
Now then, how about shipping some of those “fire ant” colonies off to PR, maybe they could wind up gentler too?
We already have them. And they still on fire.
@@arturoviva5718 that sucks
They can take all of the yellow jackets around my house 😎
@@arturoviva5718 Why don't you just use a fire extinguisher?
Pls dont,i don't want them eating my lizards
Lol they're probably melting from the damn humidity!
Cnw#870 Puerto Rico can do what they want, but I want to know why ones in the United States are being filmed instead of killed.
😂😂😂👌👌👌
Glad to know that with counseling and rehabilitation killer bees can go straight
That and aggressive colonies tend to get found more often by accedent and thus erradicated more often by humans.
Their forage adaptation played a Huge role. More foraging bees were necessary 4 colony survival. You gave me lots of ideas. 6mo long nectar pollen availability is a wonder in itself
Much is said about the Africanized bees being more resistant to varroa, but the same can be done with the common European variety if cell size, and gradually the size of the actual bees, were reduced back to their natural size. The larger bees we've been breeding need more brood time before hatching, which is an open invitation to varroa.
this is some of the best footage of field research ive seen, nice and concise short little video too, with a very interesting topic
That footage film taken of the bees remind me how beautiful these bees are. I love 🐝. Thank you for this great video....
"The wet season", it rains a shit ton here in Puerto Rico it's freaking wet season even in summer lmao
SHAHO- DÚN not in Ponce!
Thinking back on it; it was around the alte 1990s here in Arizona that Africanized bee attacks really started dropping off as well. Too; in the desert areas, we receive virtually no rain compared to Puerto Rico.
its me! thanks
haha congrats!
Gabriel Diaz yeah sure it is
Absolutely incredible videography!
I'm pretty high right now, but I swear one of the bees at 2:26 just waved at me. Hello to you too, little guy.
3:54 Incoming...incomin**SPLAT** ABORT! Abort! Wait, nevermind, I got this.
+Manchease Skrelpher WASTED
Yeah, felt bad for little dude
They showed them "Scared Straight: Apian Edition"
2:28 that looked like some epic slow motion parkour the way the bee bounced off
its spring time in Canada, and the bees are ALIVE! SUPER EXCITED
KIlller bees, one human death a year.
No longer killing one human a year.
Humans: * *surprised Pikachu face* *
A question: Would the bees revert to being more aggressive were they moved to a different environment, such as one similar to the specie's origins?
Yes and no
Their original environment in Africa requires high aggression
Both Africa and Europe are filled with honeybee hive predators. North and South America have less threats but still plenty, so they only toned down a little when introduced here. On some peacuful island, all they have to worry about is the weather and things that prey on individual bees like robber flies, dragonflies, and spiders, such predators aren't much of a problem as individuals can be easily replaced. Nothing bothers their hives much on those spots, so they mellowed out.
I've been sort of expecting this for decades just because they were initially so aggressive as to be harmful to their own best interests.
this channel has the most awesome photography.!!!!
I just noticed in the slow speed video clips that a bees legs counter oscillate with their wings so the head and thorax stays steady. They are like tuned dampers. Nature is awesome.
maybe cuz most of people in puerto rico are nice so..... maybe that made them nice??
More like heavy dry seasons in Africa cause bees to value and protect what little they have and be aggressive, opposed to being in an abundant climate where there's more in just collecting for storing and not having to protect it as much because there's so much... no mindless racism, just common sense you lack.
puerto rican people are nice? lmfao
Jeronimo Vasquez whats so funny? we are nice
francheska cruz dude, Puerto Rican people are not nice. If you know them they are, but man, they are just super mean.
Carlos Colón Ok you dont know what your talking about.
Dude just casually has infinity gauntlet of killer bees
How’s their honey production? Has it increased?
probably tripple the production of honey i think more forager , more sweet sweet honey
arnold shmitt very cool.
Yeah a bit more sweet a bit less fight to them now.
Evolution in action. A beautiful sight.
They’re in a good mood due to low tax rates.
Is that what your wife tells you every night Puerto Rico is not low taxes trust me there's a catch in every end
11.5% sales tax is low to you?
Ignorant people shouldn't comment.
If you are referring to most of us not paying federal taxes (some of us do), "taxation without representation" is something Americans has fought since the very beginning of our nation.
What is the difference between refusing to pay taxes - that resulted in the USA war for independence - to a far away kingdom (England) where the American British colonies had no representation
and
Most of Puerto Rico not paying taxes to a far away government where we have no congressional voting representation?
Give me a break. We are as American as it gets. No taxation without representation, and if you can't give us representation, set us free.
@@PRDreams and D.C. too!
"Because they interbred with European honeybees..." pffft! How quickly was *that* dismissed? Like in a second?
Because lots of killer bee hives in other areas are interbred with calm European bees and yet are still insanely aggressive. So it's unlikely that is what changed them.
Well the DNA says not. Are you telling DNA it doesn't know what it's talking about?
DNA evidence will do that.
holy fuck blue shirt guy. this man has balls of platinum.
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less predators too, so less soldiers needed
So many armchair biologists / scientists here. Incredible!!
This is what I read on a comment from another UA-cam video related to aggressive bees and how they deal with them in Africa (I took a screenshot of the comment and saved it for future reference).
Comment by Neal Skelton.
"When I was stationed in South Africa, I was able to meet a local beekeeper. After a while, he was asked to help out another beekeeper several miles away. He didn't have reliable transportation, so I gave him a ride.
What he did, was build a bonfire in front of the hive about 10 feet away from the front of the hive.
Then he banged on the hive. Several hundred bees came out and went straight to the fire.
The next week we went back and it was a completely different hive.
That's when he replaced the queen."
My suggestion would be, if you can't replace the queen, then repeat the same procedure every time you see that the aggression starts to build up again, that way you will be able to keep the number of the most aggressive bees down very effectively.
That's apparently how they deal with aggressive bees in Africa, and apparently it works for them, it should work on your Africanized bees also. You could use a portable grill instead of a bonfire, get creative, and share this technique so beekeeper can work around their Africanized bees.
0:48 BEE PUNCH!
3:53 Amazing recovery.
Nice bit of research. Good filming too.
oh my god my dad lives in Puerto Rico and we see tons of bees. (here's a little back story) when it was summer I went to visit my dad for vacation (in Puerto Rico) and one time I was playing with my cousin and a bee landed on my arm at first I thought it was gonna sting me but after 40 seconds of screaming like a girl the bee was just sitting there. Every time I tried to take it off it keeps coming back. sooo.......... I kept it I'm not sure if it's illegal but I'm keeping it I still don't have a name for it yet.
I don't think it would be illegal to keep a [non-native] bee, but it should instinctually have tried to return back to its hive eventually once it was done foraging.
idk but bees look kinda cute to me XD
Pro Man Vlogz Hello Pro Man Vlogz( like your picture(its so cool)!! as well as your screen name by the way!!! Just finished reading your comment most interesting Do you still have that bee? USA South Louisiana.
The native Americans refer to individuals having an animal totem (spirit animal guide). Maybe the bee is your totem, bro!?
You know a bee only lives about 12 weeks right?
las abejas tienen una cara bien tierna. Extraño aqui en PR los abejones o cigarrones. Hace mucho tiempo no veo uno. Y el patio de mi casa tiene muchas flores
Amazing. Thank you.
That's legitimately amazing.
That guy was wearing an infinity gauntlet made of bees.
Has to be the lack of animals that steal their honey (badgers, bears, etc). I don't buy the rainy/dry season pattern reason because in Brazil (where they were hybridized first) they also have rainy/dry season climate pattern and the bees are still aggresive
As a guy with a biology background and much attention focused on evolution I have enjoyed learning about these African bee colony changes in puerto rico. Amazing to have adapted so fast. It shows that adaptation isnt necessarily gradual over time through natural selection. There is something else at play. Probably the universe energy component, maybe the divine component.
Probably epigenetics.
Bee's know a good and welcoming place!
I remember learning of their impending arrival here in the states, back in the 80's , from my Filipino Teacher, Mrs Baldwin. Though this vid is old, it's good news to me. 🐝
I live in San Antonio Tx. I feed the bees sugar water on my balcony for breakfast. They are not aggressive in any way; if they get in trouble in the water, I offer them my fingertip, they grab on and stay with me for a few minutes until they are dry enough to fly again. Be kind to bees.
The reason the bee's don't harm people now is because they like this climate it is just right for them these sorts of bee's don't like the weather too cold or to hot this climate is just right for them all year round.
That is really interesting!!
Basically the bees are now working and don't have time to sit around and riot anymore.
Haaaaahahahaaahahahahahaaaaaa lol good one!
Bees: ive decided i dont want to be the bad guy anymore
It's been 5 years I wonder if there's been any updates on these studies?
So it’s a behavioral response to their physical environment as opposed to a fundamental change in their genetics.
They adapted to their surroundings, yes. Genetics does not always need to change for the animal to change its behavior, we see this all the time in nature.
Swarm catching pretty dope👍🏽
Any farmer could have told you this. My grandpa used to catch swarms of bees as a kid. If you are gentle and get the queen, the bees will follow you anywhere. And they won’t sting. And happy bees aren’t aggressive.
I reckon that these bees keep getting smoked with super-skunk. They're laid back, friendly and stoned.
Wouldnt capturing the queen make them more anxious? Also i see smoke in the air like theyre using chemicals in order to bring the insects to a docile state. Were there any statements on victims possibly provoking the insects or threatening them in any way?
Bees are vital awesome little creatures..
It's not surprising that the have changed as many generations have now breed in that area and bees are well known to adapt and change mood...in New Zealand we move hives to one side to the other and the bees that are shifted to the west coast behave a lot more aggressive...we think its because of more rain and weather there
They've done the same here in So. Cal..
Interesting to see how fast this evolution has taken place.
Adaptation. Behavior modification is not an evolutionary process.
@@jeffreyreeves9113 Some things are evolution and not adaptation (dodo didn't adapt to become flightless, there just was no driver to maintain flight) and some things are adaptation and not evolution (Corvid tool design: hatched with no family to teach them, they will not build the same tools that their parents would teach them (though they would retain the evolved ability to understand and use tools, and to learn to build tools they see) ). Many things are both, and though you are not wrong to call this an adaptation, you are wrong in saying it isn't an evolution. It is if the change in behaviour is generationally driven and of a permanent nature. You aren't suggesting that the bees "decided" they needed less soldiers and more workers are you? Drop these bees in Texas and they won't just start hatching soldiers again will they? We aren't dealing with a semi sentient species like apes or dolphins, but a species driven entirely by instinct (biologically programed). The fact that they have biologically lost a defining trait of their ancestors (aggression) would in itself make a strong argument for labeling them as a new species, and at a minimum its certainly sufficient to define it as its own sub species similar to western and eastern cougars which have no physical differences, only behavioural differences.
3:53 Poor bee. But now I want to see bees flying in rain...
At 3:53 that bee got hit with a raindrop and just rebalanced itself like it was nothing lol.
The BeeMan - new superhero.
Very good!
I walked right through a swarm of killer bees here in Arizona as I was on a trail on a cliff side and had no choice. They didn't bother me at all. I walked gently and I was wearing all white. I wonder if they are going through the same transition.
We need bees desperately and i hope that they find some answers to this question .
The amount of food is more abundant so there's less need for aggression? That's my guess. It pays to collect more food since there's more available, and you don't have to fight as much.
They could become kind in everywhere!!
It's the laid back island living!
Fascinating insects.
2:48 to 3:00 ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!
Wow that was great
He just threw a bee hand like a fucking boss thats like a super power imagine getting 5000 bees thrown onto you by someone
Puerto-Rican culture is unusually rich, interactive, festive and anti-confrontational.
Apparently the bees awoke to the fact that they are on Fantasy Island.
Perhaps that lady on Crashboat fed them some Pinchos. That would ease anybody's bad attitude.
That is ONE thing for sure you won't catch me doing!! 😂
Could it be that given the more abundant food supply in the Puerto Rico dry season has made the queens have increased the worker to soldier balance while in Africa it would need to be the opposite as there would be fewer food sources and have a greater need to protect what they have?
It's the Rum, makes everyone mellow.
In low populated areas in countries without financial resources, killing anything that comes by is probably a good survival strategy but as Killer Bees move into populated areas it becomes counter-productive because humans will search them down and kill the hive. So, there has probably been a differential survival rate for less aggressive hives.
2:30 Why am I getting Bee Movie vibes here lol