Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2020
- Take a look inside a hive as a wasp queen begins her reign; founding a colony, hunting to feed her brood and defending against intruders.
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As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood. It's the wasp queen; one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the winter. Now she must emerge into the spring air to begin her reign. This queen is the lone survivor of her old hive, and now, she must become the foundress of a new one. Kenny Coogan details a year in the life of a wasp queen.
Lesson by Kenny Coogan, directed by Biljana Labovic & animated by Denis Chapon.
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Poor bees... imagine being paralyzed and getting licked
You just made it kinda kinky haha.
na think about it you're all sticky but then wasp to the rescue! Now you're clean.
I cam tatse a lair within you... *is this a jojo reference?*
Rather be licked by one than stung repeatedly
lick by your most hated
Should have titled the video "Stinging necks and Cashing checks: The reign of a wasp queen"
Catchy name
@@lemonlime8635 XD true tho
Good one!
I saw several wasps building one nest,what does that mean?
crnogorac patriota
It means that either:
shits about to go down between the wasp kingdoms
*OR*
they about to gang together and destroy y’all
This makes me want to play a strategy game where you play as a wasp queen.
Actually that is a GREAT IDEA!
Ahem: I am Fish, Goat simulator...
Also check TierZoo
@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 I think they were looking for something a little more set in reality?
We need Sim Wasp ASAP
shinysilverstardust why just stay in the game? Go get yourself a queen wasp
"They are vital to the ecosystem" ... This sounds like something a person paid off by a queen wasp would say. [Suspicion intensifies]
Killing mites convinces me enough. I hate those.
this comment was brought to you by the ant gang
Nah, nah, nah, the firewood paid ted ed off to get more wasps in their pile
Illuminati conformed
I don't wanna kill no bugs no more 🤣🤣🤣
The title alone makes you want to click on this video.
Leah G 😂
😂
You must be a bee likka! 😜
for me hearing the usual narrator is the reason !
his voice is like hearing a Liszt piano music :)
Just like every video ┐ (╹ヘ╹) ┌
Ted-Ed : *explains how lucky the wasp queen is not one of the unlucky ones who brutally died*
Also Ted-Ed : but first, b r e a k f a s t.
Tbh breakfast is the most important meal of the day
@@mackenzie9065 That’s where your wrong, it’s the next one that is the most important.
@@cittly Fair lmao but in some people's cases we eat breakfast and skip lunch
But still good point ngl
I lick bees as a hobby and work with trees yet you don't see me getting a UA-cam video.
I will rofl your waffles
Are you feeling it now?
Wait....
lurked light *M R K R A B S*
They gave a goat guy a Nobel Prize, sounds like you deserved one too.
It was great working with TED-Ed again! Long live the queen.
Long may she reign. Thanks for another great lesson, Kenny! 🐝
Reading that name was a wild ride! The video was really amazing btw!
I wish u were my teacher that would be the best
Hello Kenny I'm now a proud subscriber of you!:))
@@TEDEd you are the best UA-camr TED-Ed
*This winter is by far the warmest ever and I live in Scandinavia*
O'SSÉIN - Master Your Mind With Me this is the coldest in Dubai. 13 degrees Celsius was the least.
It hasnt snowed in southern scandinavia at all this winter
Same in India
Which country?
Abijith Prasannakumatr sweden
Despite my deep hatred for wasps, this video gave me a newfound respect for them
This is overblown. Like mosquitos, wasps are only around because nature didnt select them out. They serve little function.
Hornets are the true enemy’s
licklack rickrack hornets aren’t all that different from wasps, they’re just bigger and stronger. Don’t annoy them and you’ll be fine, I’ve been near many hornets an haven’t been stung once
@@stevencooper4422 "serve little function" Nature wouldn't allow them to be successful for millions upon millions of years if they didn't serve some purpose, a purpose which is easier than ever in human history to learn about instantaneously with the advent of the internet.
@@yearginclarke Nature does, you think you know evolutionary biology but you don't
I want more of these animal-focused videos!
Completely agree! People need to start being close to nature again instead of seeing anything living as either food, a pet or a pest because we've lost touch and are destroying nature at an alarming rate
Thank you for making this. Most folks' reaction to any wasp is to panic and kill it by any means necessary, but wasps do not go out of their way to be "mean". in fact, there have been several accounts of people who, by putting out food for the wasps that build nests near their homes, have built a friendship with the colony. All you need to do is show them that you're not a threat, and they'll leave you alone. Take some time to learn about wasps. They are just as ecologically important as bees are, potentially even more so.
More important than bee? Yeah now i know you're just straight up lying
Wasp hands wrote this
Guys really? Wasps are important to the ecosystem without them they’re gonna be more pests everywhere. Guess some people hate certain animals like they have no use in the world. Humanity is so cruel.
@Joseph Phillips 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@illegalpic6814 Wasps keep pest numbers down, help decompose rotting fruit and dead animals, and are also capable of pollinating. Thats quite a bit of important traits.
*wasps licks bees
Rule 34 artists: “yes”
I see you're a man of Culture as well.
@@hectorvega621 I see *you're* not
You are a sketchy dood
Someone please actually do this
BEGONE DEMON
TED makes my day.
Same
FIRST ANTS THEN WASPS. I SEE WHAT YOU DID TED ED.
based on the trend, I predict the next will be something about the quantum realm
@@dionysiuschiu5995 a.n.t m.a.n
@@PotatoSaladMonkey *it only makes sense.*
Fun fact it’s thought ants are wasps which lost there wings and started hunting at and under ground level
bee
It may be unusual, but wasps remind me of times when I was spending time camping with family at a lake in Poland as a kid. They were always somewhere nerby, doing their activities. I grew to enjoy their presence there, as they were trying to take a piece of cake or drink coke from a glass. I've never disturbed them so they didn't sting me. Grandpa many times said "if you won't make them feel in danger, they won't attack you" . I miss them, now it is rare for me to see wasps.
I used to get wasps buzzing around my brassica seedlings, ~ didn't know why.
Then one day I saw a wasp grab a caterpillar off a young cabbage plant and fly away with it :)
I feed stray cats, and have even had wasps cutting pieces off chunks of cat food and fly off with those!
Massimo O'Kissed
Cat to wasp
Cat: HISSSSSSSSSSS
wasp: Meow *takes cat food*
Cat: *fear*
Poor caterpillar. He got eaten.
What th is wrong with you? Why does seeing a caterpillar getting killed make you SMILE?!
@@quintuplesthedragon9709 , hungry hungry caterpillar was eating my brassicas that I was growing to feed me.
@@massimookissed1023 wait what are brassicas?
Random fact: Honeybees can recognize human faces. 🐝🐝🐝
Omg it's so cute T•T
thank you
so if you attack a nest the bees know you face...
better put on a mask of my enemy's face . hahaAHaahAA
Sources?
Her source is wikipedia and call herself a genius😒😒
I always liked wasps. We even had a wasp nest past year, we didn't remove it and they never stinged us. As a gardener I'm glad to hear they are ver helpfull! ❤️
"And now she must become the foundress of a new one- but first breakfast" omg thats such a mood
I appreciate how the video clearly tried to include how the humans’ presence affects the daily life of the wasp.
bee: **exists**
wasp queen: "RERORERORERORERORERORERORERORERORERORERORERORERO"
Haha
This is the taste of a liar.
---bruno buccirati
Very interesting to know! Although i know a little more info, sincerely i learned info about wasps before even seeing this video :)
I also, when i was younger, i was helping my dad grow the vegetables and crops. I heard buzzing from underground and listened carefully only to find a "burrow". Yes. Wasps usually actually make nests wherever they wish to, that commonly includes trees, but sometimes also underground. The queen bee starts making a new hive at spring when the weather is warm and the plants are blooming, when the snow is gone. That's mostly in mid-spring i think. Then over time, she starts laying eggs in it. Weeks, or months, pass by and workers are fully grown, while the queen lays more eggs. The workers make the hive larger and help feed the maggots. At summer, proper female and male wasps hatch and mate. At autumn/fall, the hive is abandoned. As said so, the young queen bee finds shelter to survive the winter. Winter arrives, the drones (male wasps), workers, and the old queen bee die. Somewhere between winter and spring, the new queen bee comes out of her shelter and starts working on her new hive. The queen bee lays her eggs upside down, head downwards. When the egg hatches, is gone through its 'maggothood', it evolves into its cocoon state and the queen bee seals the hole so the cocoon doesn't fall out. Then the "newborn" wasp emerges from its cocoon and gifts it's sugar-rich liquid to the queen wasp which keeps her healthy, and then the new wasp can do their thing. Wasps have many threats to them though, such as: badgers, european honey buzzards (or the pern), the common starling, the cross spider and the common blackbird. The hives are usually also like paper material. Thats all what i know! Thank you for reading, if you even did.
What a bee-utiful amination!
Hahaha
Waspt the heck?
Nice! 😁
hahahaha
get out.
What a relaxing background music!
nothing is scarier than irl seeing a wasp fly off with a caterpillar like wtah 😭 scarred for life
Getting stung multiple times by one
Ted is the most reliable source of info
It's surprising to know how often we are interconnected to these beings in certain aspects of life, whom we perceive as threat just because of their sting. Its wonderful to see how our system is balanced so organically but our amplified instinct of survival of the fittest is posing a threat to everyone ( that includes us too ). Thanks TED-Ed for this lucid way of sensitising how responsible we should be in finding alternative solutions before going for the easiest solution we resort to while handling the other living beings i.e killing.
Bees: Im paralyzed.
Queen Wasp: Lickity lick lick.
Wasps: *literally* *DYING*
music: *super* *calm* *flute* *plays*
Didn't know that they had such a substantial impact to the ecosystem. Not sure spiders need to be kept in check as much though, they are pretty good about thinning invertebrate numbers by themselves.
For many years, I used to be quite scared of yellow jackets and sometimes had thoughts of wanting to exterminate every single one of them. But on October 18th of 2020, I made an effort to not be afraid of them anymore. Ever since I watched this video like a few days ago, it really showed me how wasps are just as important to our Earth's ecosystem as bees. After some changes to one of my OCs, Zack Macmillan ever since I conquered my fear, I developed him as a human who was experimented to have Yellow Jacket traits or "YJTs" for short. Thank you, TED-Ed so much for opening my eyes.
I used to hate wasps this changed my perspective, thank you.
Wonderful animation btw!
Just imagine that...
Me: drops *food on my arm*
Friend: oh let me get that for you *licks food on my arm*
Me: what the fu...
@Good Sports Evening Don't swear!
Hello! I am going into college to become a zoologist. Until now, I HATED WASPS. BUT! Now I like them. Thank you ted!
The Wasp Queen
_- the Boss that you fight in Cuphead_
Pretty sure she's a bee but ok
Her name is Rumor Honeybottoms you uncultured swine.
Or the Queen Bee from Terraria (I know it's not a wasp, but it checks out)
@DLUX AJ finally a fellow terraria player!!!!!!
First time I reached so early
And was amazed with the gentle voice of the speaker!!!
Kudos TED ED
The title of this video alone g'wasps your attention, which may sound unbeeliveable. But really, I am quite glad to bee here, as the sheer beeuty of the animation blows me away.
Fardifa Alam Hahaha 😁
Please stop! Hahaha! Enough of these bee puns!!! It's so unbeelievable how mahy there are in this!!! Lol XD
It’s not funny cuz you said bee and wasp too much
*HEAVY BREATHING INTENSIFIES*
Bees: usually doesn’t sting, helps pollination, produces honey
Wasps: a bee on meth, can sting infinitely, doesn’t contribute much
Hornets: a wasp on steroids
"Ýę§ " even the corruption agreed
Well i gotta give you points for saying a bee on meth
And hey wasp helps plants to grow
bruh wasps acts as predator in nature... killing your crops eater insects and some of its species acts as a better pollinators than a honeybees
Honey bees: invasive, bumble bees are cuter, only good for honey
Wasp: *lick*
Bee: *Giorno Giovana flashbacks*
"This taste... Is the taste of a liar, Giorno Giovanna!"
Who?
I never expected wasps are helping us, they usually are seen as a mean, stinging bug
Well to be fair they ARE quit mean
@@blakeperdue3706 that's because you go near their nest and probably annoy them
@@core8498 yes idiots are the only one who do that
@@ygotsvlog3762 yep
Wow, this was very insightful! Thank you Ted Ed for another great video💕
The flute in the background is amazing
4:33 R.I.P. A wasp queen
Even though I'm allergic to bees, I think they do a wonderful job!
Dancing?
A very humble life, I have a wasp hive outside of my house, I will make sure to protect them. Very wholesome
Funny story: Soon after the first time I saw this, I saw a queen wasp by my family's wood pile! She was beautiful
I really like how the video goes full circle.
Wasp you say?
Hans! *Get Zhe flammenwerfer!!!*
Hans! Gez ZE Flammenwerfer
I have never felt bad for a wasp before. She must have been so lonely :'(
Thanks Ted! Wasps and hornets are so underrated!
I love wasps they're so cool and actually really friendly!
We 🐝🍂 in you Queen
After reading the title:
*Top Ten rappers Eminem was too afraid to diss*
This video makes wasps especially wasp queen's quite endearing
This is beautiful and the title even more so. Thank you.
Wasp : bee bee
India : jee jee
Wasps aren't bees
@@chrisp.9385 I meant the kind of buzzing sound they make....
Bzzzzz bzzzzz
its amazing to realise that everything is important. despite our perception of wasps, they matter just like everything else. So just remember next time your feeling useless. YOU MATTER TOO
The art on this one is terrific!!
Finally a video showing the importance of wasps thats why i love this channel.
When you're so early the likes are in two digits
Uii
*What sound does a wasp make when it hits your windshield?*
A bee flat.
Goddamnit
Hahaha, I love it.
I love how it perfectly loops
SO incredibly detailed.
“The males die off shortly after”
I need to quote that
TED-Ed honestly has the best animators.
Thank you for this wonderful video.
the music was so soothing!
ok this was completely bias the wasps just devour bees in merely 3 hours wasps can kill more than 30k
in one attack and bees are their favorite food
A queen wasp wouldn't chance that attack until the next is built at least. Her daughters might, but not her
wasps will rarely take that kind of risk. It's far easier to nab pest insects like beetles and caterpillars. Besides, what this video fails to mention is that wasps pollinate flowers just as well as bees do. demonizing wasps is not the answer to saving bees.
You obviously have no understanding of how nature self regulates, wasps play the role of apex predator, keeping other populations of arthropods in check, Without them the system becomes wildly unbalanced and falls apart.
@mustafa osama You are mixing up wasps with hornets
@@AsioEntomo Counterpoint: 3:34 "They even pollinate fruits and vegetables."
Can you do a video about coronavirus? The knowledge would be really helpful in this scenario where the disease is spreading fast.
The time he said a size as a soccer ball i was so shocked and i was like: wha- how- how many wasps are there??
Such an soothing voice. Feels wonderful. :)
I want a Command and Conquer: Wasp edition
I think the social wasps in the southern part of the United States can live even longer and in some cases become polyginal,means they can have more than one queen. One wasp colony once had over a thousand queen but it was taken down by people who hate wasps.
I don't know how you manage to do it, but every single video I watch from you guys is a revelation! Even when I think I know a lot about something... BOOM! TED Ed!!
growing up, i had been stung several times by wasps and that led to me developing a fear of wasps that persisted till relatively recently. now, whenever a wasps is nearby, i no longer tense up, but just try to give it its space and let it do its thing.
but they are still assholes. i got stung by one when i put my hand on the bench and a wasp was sitting on the other side unbeknownst to me
3:40 I don't think you have grapes growing in your garden. WASPS ARE THE WORST. They sting the grape and then it start's rottenig. Definitly not helpful
Yeah, I noticed that too. "Helps by starting fermentation" yeah that means they rot quicker.
Fermenting it means making it wine
@@okedoke6074 fermentation- a chemical breakdown of nutrients done by bacteria, yeast......rot.
ummm that is what makes the wine wine, watching it sometimes
@@tastybritches6644 search it on youtube and see how they make wine
22 seconds EARLY, NIIIIccce
Yourself included
Have saved your channel for bedtime stories. BB fell asleep less than half way in.
love how u do these weekly now
I kill wasps all day at my job. This video changes nothing.
Gregory F. True
Thank you for your services 💙Stay safe!
and i protect them - fight me coward
@@Pawlakov1 do you protect lice, mice and roaches too?
Cuz i wanna fight you
@@dv9239 no, unlike wasps they're not beneficial (to be fair i don't mind mice as long as they stay away from my indoors)
Thanks for providing such quality content that too free
the cycle of life here strangely moves me... i love this :-)
God bless you Ted Ed! I asked so many times why do we have yellow jackets! Now I know thank you so much
when ever i click on ted ed videos i leave by learning something more interesting every time....thank you ted ed.👍👍
I love these videos! They are entertaining, have pretty animations and I learn stuff! It’s a win win win :))
This was(p) amazing! Loved it so much
I ❤️ this vid! TED Ed is my favorite channel, I even had to unsubscribe from a previous channel because TED Ed’s videos are so much better.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What an interesting video about wasps!!!
Amazing! Thank you :D
Love the Robert Frost reference at the end
Look at those animations!!
Love this video!!
The background music is so good 👌♥️
Queens always do hardworks 💖
The animation is sooo good
I love all of you guys
teded:called drones
me:gimme the controller
Oh my....the wasp queen is TRULY a SUPER Mom!!!!
Nice video can’t see to wait to what you do next. ( :