Bees Kill A Giant Hornet With Heat | Buddha Bees and The Giant Hornet Queen | BBC Earth

back in the hive those bees too young to forage our housekeeping like the Hornet queen the queen bee has the immeasurable task of laying enough eggs to ensure the health and future of the colony the custom of keeping wild japanese bees is as old as society itself and Yamaguchi has kept bees since boyhood Japanese bees are so sensitive that it takes great patience and skill to keep them the art of keeping them lies in understanding their behavior they make honey stores for the winter but they also produce enough for Yamaguchi to harvest Japanese bees may produce less honey than European bees but the taste is very special it's the smell of this growing store of energy rich honey which could be their downfall if it draws in a hornet Scout but right now the Hornets have other problems to contend with the nest is now monstrous the workers have excavated over a ton of Earth there are so many bodies living at close quarters that the Queen and her dynasty are in danger of overheating so workers create our conditioning keeping a steady flow of fresh air circulating being unable to cope with high temperatures is a giant hornets Achilles heel the warmth of the hornet's nest belies the change in season seasons change fast up here in the mountains and when autumn arrives there are far fewer insects around this means my hives are even more vulnerable to attack for me it's an anxious time in the search for autumnal food a scout Hornet discovers Yamaguchi's wild bees the honeybees fan an alarmed pheromone through the air this alerts the whole hive to the Hornets presence the Scout smells the honey within a prize this rich is worth Sint marking but unlike the European bees these Japanese bees do not attack instead they lure the Scout inside still the bees hang fire then one is caught it's the signal the others have been waiting for [Music] surrounded by vibrating bodies the Hornet at the core of the bball begins to overheat the bees have the advantage a heat tolerance to degrees above that of their enemy at 46 degrees Celsius the aggressor is roasted and I [Music] the wild bees have spent millions of years living with the enemy that's why they alone have developed this extraordinary survival strategy [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

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Id: UNroEwFxh6I

Length: 5min 24sec (324 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020

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This is one reason I’ve learned to love bees as a child.