Giant hornet vs Japanese honeybees. Hot defensive bee ball.

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[adamfowler]

The honey bee heat ball is easily one of the coolest defensive moves of any insect

[FalcoMoment]

Those bees take the idea "you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us" very seriously

[kidsIIIII]

I love how calm she is when she narrates this while the bees are on the war taking down their enemy

[crimson_bamdit]

Bee: they got jerry!!!! GET HIM!!!
hornet: oh s**t

[GamingSpoiler]

Queen : "Is he dead?"
Bee: "Yes Milady"
Queen: "Good, hang him on the entrance of the Hornets nest and send them my regards"

[jmtofficial]

The honey bees that gave their lives for the colony will not be forgotten.

[billyjean]

7:00 LOL the fucking happy music with the bees microwaving the hornet to death

[TJay]

The hornet like "damn yall just gon film them killing me!?" 😂

[iMrPlenty]

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....

[toxic_vader]

My man didn’t want no smoke but it was forced upon him

[VijayKumar]

"Stinger removed for her safety and tied."

Hornet:
"What is the point???"

[medic]

4:02 bros own moment of "i have no mouth but i must scream"

[bencarlson]

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.

[MrAnonymousme]

Imagine when the hornet enters the bee hive and the last thing it heard was japanese honey bee's "banzai charge"

[MarcelliusEgnatiusVII]

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.

[koraeyomae]

Hornets and Bees: Go to war

Video: happy music

[lyricmammal]

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.

[alexiachimciuc]

Male bees relaxing inside having a beer: hey hunny is that wasp cooked yet ? We are hungy!

[richardrodgers]

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.

[andsoitgoes]

Kudos to the beekeeper who filmed this. She did a great job!