Giant Hornets Massacre European Bees | Buddha Bees and The Giant Hornet Queen | BBC Earth

the bees rush out in defense but this is their undoing one by one they're picked off [Music] more Hornets join the attack [Music] the Hornets emit a chemical rallying cry and this triggers a unique phenomenon they no longer carry B carcasses back to the mess instead they slaughter then cast aside the body of every defender they need [Music] it's the start of a mass attack [Music] each warrior can kill up to 40 bees a minute the European bees aren't number the Hornets a thousand to one but they didn't evolve alongside these huge Asian predators and have no effective defense within the are 10,000 bees are dying their stings are not strong enough fart as the corpses pile up the Hornets begin to tire giant Hornets are so big they are in danger of overheating but the send to the prize inside drives them to fight until they drop 30,000 honeybees have died in three hours falling victim to just 30 giant Hornets by midday the defenses are breached now the real plunder begins the Hornets pay little attention to the few surviving bees the motivation for the attack lies within the cones outside the exhausted Hornets exchange liquids to boost their energy inside the defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost to the Hornets own larvae and their Queens fortunes [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 2,109,900

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, wildlife documentary 2019, buddha bees and the giant hornet queen, giant hornet, giant hornet nest, hornet queen building nest, hornet queen documentary, hornet queen life cycle, insect documentary bbc

Id: K_8B4bcrSs8

Length: 3min 50sec (230 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 15 2020