The Extraordinary Life Cycle of a Hornet Colony

After a hornet queen lays hundreds of eggs, her workers set about feeding the larvae chewed-up prey. With tiny waists, the workers can't digest solid food; they instead subsist on drops of amino acid from the larvae.

From: KILLER HORNETS

[ndogmario]

Imagine a human baby scraping their teeth against the table as a Demand for food. And after they're done being fed theyll spit up a protein shake, Of which the rest of the family consumes in order to stay alive.

[rugpull]

This is insane. How does everyone not find this interesting ? The camera close ups were great quality.

[ameliazen]

"Their tiny scraping mandibles will one day behead their enemies" im dying

[ofamilyonthemove]

It is incredible how “alien” our world can be when you get an opportunity to see it that close. Great video!

[toastymemes]

The Extraordinary Life Cycle of a Hornet Colony *in my backyard*
1) Start building a hive
2) Get gassed
3) Done, repeat next summer

[attackfrogs]

it is just SO NEAT how bees and wasps know how to make those perfect hexagons in their hives

[ProfX]

Which genius at Youtube decided to make the red bar at the bottom of the video the width of a hair on mobile?

[ScienceByMike]

That is the strangest relationship I have ever heard of! Both are entirely dependent upon the other for food

[FrederickDunn]

Dang, what's with the sudden cutoff? I was really getting into that excellent presentation, but the "life cycle" here didn't include eggs, larvae, pupae hatching, foraging, and so on... you know, the complete "Life Cycle" THAT would be fantastic to see, thanks and thumbs UP as always!!! Longer episodes please :)

[RNYFLNY]

That's actually kind of interesting that in a way the young grubs basically run and control the hive.

[CM-dxxu]

Has anyone ever wondered...

HOW some animals already know what to do in their first days of living....

like human babies are helpless, but kangaroo EMBRYO can already climb on it's mothers pouch...

[girlgamer]

Hornets: Ah, the babies are fed!Time to work again! Haha

Babies: *S C R A P E*

Hornets:Hehe... Yeah, what was i thinking! I need to feed the little ****s again

[Botoneous]

lmfao "the scrub needs food"

[diceflawless]

Props to the camera man for shrinking down and going in as a undercover wasp to bring us this footage!

[shillbill]

Killer hornets...literally bees on METH.

[ArtisChronicles]

What gets me is how such close up footage of these nests can exist without them going crazy.

[gruodvl]

The number of 2000 eggs in one season is amazing. The larva are like moving fried eggs. They only need to make the lid part of the cocoon, so they are easier than making other cocoons.

[jamaltagiyev]

Honeybees in winter: "hug each other quick!"
Hornets in winter: *BE GONE THOOOOT!!*

[rouvin]

I thought it said “Horny colony” and I was thinking “THATS ME AND MY FRIENDS”

[damnitstroubleman]

Fascinating as this was, this was definitely the wrong video for me to watch while trying to have breakfast. . .