Why Do These Bees Buzz in Sync? | BBC Earth

These giant bees buzzing create spectacular waves in their beehive.

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[samuelkamochu]

As a nature lover and actually being in honey business, there is no love lost between me and the hornets. They are capable of destroying a whole bee colony in a short time.

[samasoku]

listening to the buzzing while wearing headphones is terrifying!

[trondsi]

That's Apis laboriosa, the Himalayan giant honey bee. It was recently recognized as a separate species of giant honey bee.

[dragonballer]

In that massive crowd of bees there gotta be one grumpy bee refusing to do the wave like "Come

[rexcastro]

0:21
what i hear every time the barber folds my ear and his electric razor starts to trim the hair around it

[KiambuX]

My absolute favorite insect. Brilliant species. 👌🏿

[foolslayer]

For some reason, this is much more pleasant that thousands of bees swarming and stinging you.

[timsullivan]

Bees to hornets - "Buzz off!"

[mahmudesadkeles]

Everything from bees, flies, and chickens to the sun and the moon carry out their duties with perfect pleasure.

[Dockboy]

Bee: Colony, Scout 1 requesting permission to dock, over.

Cone: Scout 1, divert! Colony is on lockdown due to enemy presence!!

[GoodfellaZeta]

Supposedly these motions trick threats into thinking that the hive is actually one large individual rather than a group of several small ones. An intimidation tactic not dissimilar to the rattle of a snake, meant to make the user seem like more trouble than they're worth.

[patientzero]

So that's where The bee movie got it from.

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*The buzzing alone* can make some of us allergic already .-)
Hyperventilation indeed .-)

[MrZigzter]

"Didn't know it would Bee like this" 😆😆

[DanknDerpyGamer]

1:22 that bee falling sound... made me laugh harder than I probably should have.

[alicel]

Sehr beeindruckend die Natur ist fantastisch

[aves]

Incredible! What an interesting and effective way of defence

[mphaintthatfast]

Some day we're all going to come back to videos like this with more understanding like

[isurumuthuarachchi]

What a fascinating video, never knew hornets and bees are archenemies

[jamespisano]

That's so amazing. I love honeybees.