Bees vs Hornets - Incredible Enemies - Amazing Battles

[Music] the insect world is home to some of the planet's fiercest battles the stakes are high home young and food sources are under constant threat for European honeybees they live in colonies that are often over 30 thousand strong constructing hives filled with wax pollen larvae and of course honey a pretty valuable bounty for an invading army when a honey bee hive faces off with Asian giant Hornets it takes just one recon mission to start a war when a single Hornets Scout spots a beehive she marks it with a pheromone and then returns with a hit squad these giants are the world's largest Hornet five times the size of the average honeybee and they're armed with a deadly venom their sting feels like a hot nail being driven into your flesh [Music] thousands of defenders pour from the hive ready to give their lives in its defense but these European honeybees have no way to stop the onslaught a single hornet can kill as many as 40 beads a minute just 30 of them can annihilate a colony of 30,000 bees in a few hours it isn't a battle it's a massacre the ground is thick with the remnants of their victims and the enemy penetrates into the inner sanctum of the hive with the hives defenders laid to waste the Hornets gorged themselves on the spoils of war but honey isn't the main prize instead they carry away the honey bee larvae and pupae which will feed their young for weeks European honeybees may fight valiantly but they haven't evolved any defenses against these giant invaders with in nature's intricate web of checks and balances there is a place for payback these two our honeybees they made their hive in a hollow tree they too are caring for their young but these are native Japanese honeybees and they're not quite as defenseless as their European cousins they have evolved a secret weapon against the giant Hornet one they may need often in this deadly season this Hornet is the advance guard of an attack force the bees could never withstand [Music] but this time the bees set a trap they want the Hornet inside and the Hornet obliges [Music] the scouts main task is to mark the hive with the telltale pheromone so that her sisters can find it later but the native honeybees nor game by swinging their abdomens to and fro they signal their strategy to one another [Music] the bees hold off until the last possible moment and then as if on one mind they swarm the Hornet is engulfed by hundreds of bees but they don't sting the intruder instead as revealed by thermal photography they all begin to vibrate gradually raising a collective temperature to 117 degrees Fahrenheit [Music] Japanese honeybees can tolerate a temperature of 118 degrees their victims upper limit is 115 [Music] the Hornet Scout is slowly roasted alive [Music] [Music] and the secret of the honeybees location dies with her [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Wise Wanderer

Views: 1,154,022

Rating: 4.8544211 out of 5

Keywords: Bee, Bees, Honey, Japanese giant hornet, National Geographic, honey bees, Hive, larvae, Nature, Insects, Science, Biology, Evolution, Queen, Asian, Japan, European, Defense, Adaptation, Interesting, Heat, intruder, Attack, Memes, Facts, Ecology, Ecosystem, Species

Id: RDiRcp0H8JM

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 14 2019

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