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The giant hornet is the worst nightmare of many commercial beekeepers in Japan - and unfortunately, this hive doesn't stand a chance.
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Natural World: Buddha Bees and The Giant Hornet Queen
It's springtime on Honshu Island, and a queen stirs from hibernation. She alone has the ability to create an empire of winged killers, one that will last all summer long. She is a Japanese giant hornet: the largest wasp on the planet. Armed with razor-sharp jaws, thick armour plating, and a lethal half-inch stinger, these hornets have but one mission: to spread their majesty's reign to the whole countryside. Is there nothing that can stop this murderous horde? Or will the giant monsters destroy all who stand in their way, man and insect alike?
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[@Kale_Kale]

0:17 Bee dragging back her fallen comrade ;(

[@melissalowry5147]

Crazy right! Bees will actually help one another.. Say if one falls into honey they will clean the bee until its completely clean all taking turns to clean..

[@not.for_her3226]

Gave me call of duty world war 2 campaign flashbacks

[@cintronproductions9430]

How did she die in half a millisecond? Her body is intact so the hornet didn't slice her. Did she die of shock?

[@Kale_Kale]

@@olmostgudinaf8100 TIL, corrected my comment.

[@arconagbuya2188]

@@Kale_Kale what is TIL?

[@HumbledAnimeEnthusiast]

“When you accidentally join a ranked server”

[@senorphant]

アニメAnimeyic LMAO

[@hawkeyedsentinel4648]

😂😂😂

[@potato9027]

When you join in the middle of the match and your team are losing

[@philflorence590]

@@potato9027 then you realize the enemy team names look like this: ギリギリ

[@4ce._.z]

Phil Florence. *O H N O*

[@Mactakun]

“Sir, they outnumber us 1000 to 1” “I like those odds” - The battle at Hive Hill

[@reiforsale]

Unfortunately for the hornets, their genocide would never be forgotten. After a few days, a Japanese Honeybee General named Beepoleon Beenoparte would shape the Hive's army into a top tier, imperial army with experience. After the queen bee's death, General Beenoparte would be voted as the Emperor of the hive, and he would make alliances with other Hives. This formed the Beeperial Coalition, one truly united Bee Force. As the fateful day drew near, the same day the Genocide happened to the poor bees, the hornets would come again and commit another tragedy. But the bees were prepared this time, and at the time the United Hornets Army came, a private lured the hornets into the hive. The Hornet army was wondering why the hive was empty, but then suddenly, the bees CHARGED! The hornets, surprised and scared, tried to fight back but the tactics of the bees were overwhelming. The bees used the tactic that the Japanese Bees used against Asian Hornets, which was a bee ball that heated up and roasted hornets. Their one weakness. Hornets retreated in droves as the few left behind were slaughtered and roasted as toast by the bees. But the Beeperial Army wasn't done yet! Beepoleon told his men to go on the counter-offensive and follow the hornets to their hive. The hornets stood no chance, and just the way they did it to the bees, the Beeperial Army tore the Hornet Hive to shreds, toasted all of the hornets and ate all of the young. Sure, it was genocide, but would it be fair if the bees never got their revenge? After all, revenge is sweet, and bees like sweetness :) Vive La Hive!

[@reiforsale]

Bro that was the worst story I came up with im sorry

[@hidude5620]

@@reiforsale bro that was fire wdym

[@Kuro_W0lfy]

​@@reiforsaleThat was an wholesome story very cool man i liked that alot

[@EditorCerealist]

@xxCordellMxx001The bees won, but the casualties were Bees-25,000 Hornets-150

[@mattsproductions7525]

0:18 I love seeing the bees care for each other, truly a nice colony.

[@SalvableRuin]

It has nothing to do with "being nice." They have a hive mind. They aren't a bunch of friendly neighbours.

[@vespiary2066]

@@SalvableRuin You have no idea if they're nice or not. The entire concept of niceness is a few chemical responses in the brain that reward us for certain actions. Whose to say bees aren't the exact same way?

[@patrick_notpakky]

He’s Dragging his ally to medic.

[@x-mensangel3567]

Ikr and then they all hovered over him as they continued to help him, a truly powerful family

[@TheWorldsprayer]

nothing nice about bees. The moment any bee starts to act weird at all, show any kind of weakness, even if it runs into the wall too many times trying to land at the enterance of the hive, the others will kill it in a heart beat. bees are brutally effecitent: helping those they should and killing those they shoudnt help.

[@hanp8]

Then one surviving bee left for Japan to learn "heat-no-jutsu" for his revenge.

[@bobeinstein3131]

Kill bill lol

[@gabrieljose8134]

True

[@pichanao1069]

So this video is prequel of "Bees Kill A Giant Hornet With Heat "

[@cocobob6025]

Then one surviving hornet left for America to learn how to use an “AK47” for *his* revenge.

[@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758]

European bees do that too

[@luisradaelli3922]

That one bee that carried his bee friend to safety is legend

[@justinterry2926]

They will eat him

[@Kallastar.]

Beefriend Obs: all worker bees are female

[@jaydarkie8623]

@@Kallastar. Oooh now that explains it! Lol

[@Flavor69Savor]

Do u even know what legend means

[@stevensamuels4041]

Which Minute?

[@Zazinikki]

As a beekeeper this is heartbreaking

[@user-jp7mb4ns7x]

Me too man that was painful. You fuckin cameraman I don't care about science just close the gate, give them a fighting chance.

[@Kauan176ProBr]

@@user-jp7mb4ns7x you really think there was a camera man in the place ? If there was someone he would probably be dead or would just run

[@user-jp7mb4ns7x]

@@Kauan176ProBr what are you talking about? There is safety equiptment, suits, helmets etc. I can't say for sure that there is a crew on site while this is recorded but it is very likely.

[@JuneJuIyAugust]

It was probably a small drone recording

[@shabba3450]

As a HornetKeeper this is heartwarming

[@eatyourvegetables1449]

Bee at 1:50 won't go down without a fight, props to that bee.

[@dukedevlan5457]

Madlad was riding on him

[@nikitheeartist]

30,000 bees killed by 30 hornets in 3 hours. That means each hornet killed about 1000 bees. That's a kill rate of 5.5 bees per minute. That's intense. 😬

[@amitjaat728]

Mortality rate is much higher than covid -19 🙃 But still better than covid -19

[@ramam8084]

I am impressed, that's quite a maths

[@eppiechan5673]

That's horrible! 😱😱😱 Massacre! How comes no intervention? The farmer can use fire to expel those murderers.

[@ethanharry539]

Giant hornets can even kill you if you get stung by them.

[@Niggalodeon323]

HAZINA AFRIKA - TANZANIA SAFARIS umm. no, not really. you must be slow or something. that was VERY simple math 😅

[@arnaud78]

My goodness, that was brutal. It's like a natural horror show.

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin quadruple self comment copier

[@MarSHornetsandWasps-v26]

@@d.k.mministry1950Really? Heard of that but... We're talking about Hornets vs bees, not about Jesus. Damn.

[@MarSHornetsandWasps-v26]

All nature is brutal like that, when you want to observe nature, you have to get used to it...

[@x2solutions448]

Animal Lovers kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXXUkIeerJd8qKM

[@leehongjin6884]

....Fatality

[@gantzisballs]

Hornet keeper: "Someone keeps releasing large quantities of bees! My box of Japanese giant hornets ought to put a stop to that!"

[@alonelyperson6031]

WHAT ? SOMEONE IS LOWERING THE NUMBER OF BEES IN THIS ROOM !! MY LARGE TRUCKS FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH JAPANESE BEES OUGHT TO PUT A STOP TO THAT !!

[@manus.P118.8]

Did that make sense 150 odd likes as well !!!?🥴

[@ZOCCOK]

@@alonelyperson6031 wanna trade your japanese honey bee for my shiny European honey bee

[@genericcommentor1111]

Ah I see you are a man of culture as well

[@genericcommentor1111]

Ah I see you are a man of culture as well

[@ZOCCOK]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is why people fear invasive species. Here you can see just 30 Invasive Japanese Giant Hornet killing an entire nest of Honey Bees within hours. In their natural ecosystem in Japan, these hornets would've been stopped by the Japanese Honey Bee. This is why Invasive species are so bad

[@SirKolass]

These bees need to call reinforcements from Japan.

[@panther7584]

"But... We are the invasive species."

[@bkjeong4302]

Except this IS in Japan, where the hornets are native. It’s the European honeybees that are the invasive species here. (Both species are invasive in North America).

[@bensmall6548]

They may help control the Africanized bees in the southern parts of the us.

[@GineuEpine]

@@bensmall6548 They sadly wouldn't Africanized honey bees actually swarm where as European bees do semi swarms, where they think to scare off the attacker. Africanized bees legitimately try to "kill off" the attacker in which case the 1000 to 1 odds would favor the African bees.

[@FortoFight]

I just realised that this is basically the Bee version of Attack on Titan.

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin how many times have you copied your own comment?

[@PandaCatXD]

the next bee movie....

[@falco830]

*BZZZZ BZ BZZ BZZ BZZ BZZ BZZ BZZZ*

[@doxenking3899]

Where is bee levi

[@angelofdeath275]

That day the European Bees remembered....

[@alanatolstad4824]

This was tough to watch...

[@judahtribe7]

ik

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin quintuple self comment copier

[@zerieth6620]

@@d.k.mministry1950 Mate what is wrong with you.

[@medyelice6882]

soy

[@Papa-ey8dp]

Desean Martin I don’t think he loved the bees

[@MichaelBrown-ti1un]

Incredible footage and carnage. Just came here after watchihg a short about sticky traps used to capture hornets. Was just curious how they actually go about killing bees. Had no idea such a small number of hornets could wipe out an entire bee colony in a mere matter of hours.

[@mrsteffen4692]

lol I came after watching the same video because the curiosity just came to my mind too

[@kvngsly2x186]

Nigga same wtf

[@mr.d9254]

sameeeeee. came from the same video

[@lukasm.3734]

same here

[@AidosTheMan]

Samr

[@elbanaban1173]

1:11 this hornet got attacked by two bees and fell down like a helicopter And the fact that it rolled after it fell

[@SRS.SMD_95]

Lol ikr! That was cool but its not a movie😅

[@NecronHandlee]

Metal gear v style

[@dennisgrammenos1232]

Flies : We digest poop and contribute in the food chain. Ants : We just want to live a quiet life Bees : we basically give birth to flowers and make honey. Hornets : We like to sting and kill stuff

[@cintronproductions9430]

So basically hornets are useless and if we kill them all nothing will change since they contribute nothing to the ecosystem except the deaths of those that do matter. Ok...

[@ethanharry539]

@hansen00 giant hornets are not some kind of mutant alien. They are natural. Not all bees are helpless to hornet attacks too. Japanese bees can swarm a giant hornet and bake it to death. Only European bees are helpless to giant hornet attacks.

[@AdmiralAvalanche]

Life doesn't need purpose, biological teleology is a sham. If there's a niche it is exploited, simple as. You also don't seem to mention all the other solitary bees that they out compete food for either (in fact native bees are under a lot of pressure from domestic ones). By the way a lot of ants are brutal murder machines in their own right.

[@Bella1899]

@@ethanharry539 Giant hornets aren't native to Europe. Like you said, Japanese bees can swarm them. Because they've coexisted for more than a couple of years. These European bees don't know what they're encountering since they have evolved separately. Never did I say giant hornets were mutated or unnatural. But in the environment of Europe they're unnatural.

[@juniperbug8699]

Hornets and wasps are important in controlling insect populations. The issue is the Giant Asian Hornet is native to Japan, and if it spreads elsewhere as an invasive species, or comes incotact with other invasive species (European Honeybees in this case), then what would normally be competition between species in the ecosystem is mroe of a slaughter

[@ChubbyGames]

0:18 Team mate down

[@BasedLusitano]

ChubbyDino lol

[@aaronbishopp7612]

Everyone panic save ur selves forget our children

[@hannahrepollo]

@@aaronbishopp7612 LMAO

[@johnxina427]

Duude i saw the same thing and was like Somebody has to commented this

[@SonGoku-ok5lk]

I think its 0:17 xD

[@ClemensAlive]

Fun Fact: That wasnt a regular bee day...this was a wedding! :(

[@jamesmatthews6136]

That fact wasn't fun at all clemens

[@TheJacobi]

@@jamesmatthews6136 cmon james no need to be so negative

[@rafikono7007]

Red wedding

[@asawe8996]

@@rafikono7007 Ooooooooooh niice

[@Boo-ro7vo]

Black clover all over again

[@pboytrif1]

00:17 “we never leave a man beehind!”

[@iithescarletwhitchii6594]

Hornets: *literally commits genocide by definition* Humans: *hehe big buzz kill smol buzz*

[@lochlangoldsborough2067]

Omg lol

[@theboi4554]

xD

[@MatteoSerlenga]

Hahahahahah

[@rachelrussell7966]

And we kill both buzz

[@baguette745]

Lop

[@Ateemah]

1:49 That bee is Riding the Hornet Few Seconds Later:”MAYDAY MAYDAY WE ARE GOING DOWN!”

[@themixer5029]

Bee: this is bizz 4-2 taking one out with me. Goodbye Hornet: THIS IS MOWER 5-6 I HAVE BEEN TAGGED! MAYDAY MAYDAY!

[@zaidpatthi1088]

The bee dies for the queen Hornet kill in action (KIA)

[@IndigoStorm27]

The bee: *"ALLAHU AKH BAH!"*

[@tntrigued5011]

Bee: MAYDAY MAYDAY LOST CONTROL OF THE HORNET, I REPEAT LOST CONTROL OF THE HORNET. OH QUEEN OH MY QUEEN PLEASE HELP ME

[@katzspooner12]

That bee was the main character who will save the Queen

[@EpochIsEpic]

Dude, if I tried to fight 30,000 honeybees I would get annihilated

[@Loquacious69]

That’s why you gotta bring the Bois

[@FlyingPaladin]

Not if you had a flamethrower

[@starlightglimmer3260]

You are human just get some armor and weapon and you can massacre all of them

[@RayyAlfawazy]

5 years ago i've lost 30.000 bees in half an hour and the world just f'ing watched.

[@Jeffreiko]

Nah, I'd win

[@keigotakami9556]

Never have I been so upset for a colony of bees

[@fenrir834]

they fought bravely against a superior enemy, they outnumbered the enemy greatly but a single troop of the enemy butchered them in thousands,

[@costco_pizza]

@@fenrir834 What I don't understand is why the bees don't FIGHT BACK??? Why are they sitting there and taking it?? Scratch, punch, claw, yell. DO ANYTHING. FIGHT!

[@fenrir834]

​@@costco_pizza They tried, but they could not do anything. It looks like they are doing nothing but this is the best they can do. It is like watching an unarmed man being mauled by a bear. Unarmed man cannot do anything.

[@alpha_q_upppdemolition9008]

@@costco_pizzatheir actually stinging the bigger bees but it’s not doing anything

[@azeez8399]

I would torch every single giant hornet with a flame thrower.

[@weierKaktusLP]

Vegetarians: I don’t eat meat because I respect nature. Nature:

[@blank7008]

Vegetarians: *cries*

[@MohdImran-tx7ly]

lmao

[@happyalltheday2275]

Well not all Nature is good! Some of them are Evil! (Thats the truth! You being a bad boy or a good boy, you still will be killed by Nature itself)

[@Howlingburd19]

I once saw a vegan on Instagram say “Eating and producing meat is the leading cause of global warming”. I laughed my ass off lmao

[@steamyninja8881]

@Phazelight Cows themselves also cause global warming so NOT eating cows causes global warming in a way because they release an insane amount of methane into the atmosphere due to their 4 stomachs and the amount they eat everyday. "This means a lot of methane, one of the gases that causes the worst warming. One cow can produce up to 200kg of methane a year. Most of it is released as burps, but some certainly escapes out of the rear end, too! Because humans eat so much beef and milk, there are an awful lot of cows in the world, and their burping and farting causes a sizable contribution to our greenhouse gas emissions, making up nearly a third of all emissions from agriculture, by some estimates." - Dani Rabaiotti, environmental scientist and co-author of True or Poo? So both producing food and not producing food cause global warming. Both vegans and meat eaters are saving the world, and also destroying it lmao. By the way this isn't an argument, unless you were advocating for veganism preventing global warming, it was just a fun fact.

[@chrisgoris3794]

Honestly I'm afraid of bees because one time I got stung on my ear by a bee. It was PAINFUL. But at the same time I know how important they are to this planet so I don't kill I either try to let them out, or walk the opposite direction. And knowing that these hornets are coming for bees, is just deeply troubling.

[@FlyingPaladin]

So it's hornets who are killing the planet

[@j1n89]

i got stung by a bee one time. i agree its painful as hell but it was healed few days later. then i got stung by a fking wasp. its like a hornet but smaller. i was taken to the emergency room hospital because my arm was swollen bad as hell.

[@flydrop8822]

This video is in Japan and the bees are european, so they serve no environmental task and probably do more harm than good there. The hornets just did a cleanup job for the ecossystem.

[@j1n89]

@@flydrop8822 lol u are nuts. hornets are literally pest of the ecosystem. we can survive without them. bees are the opposite.

[@flydrop8822]

@@j1n89 you dont know much about ecology if you think that. Every organism that is settled in a biome has some kind of role in that biome. Those hornets were there for millions of years so the biome developed with them. Were they gone extinct by human activity this would most likely lead to ecological issues in that region, possibly including the dissemination of european bees and resulting damage to the native bee populations due to competition. Without the native bees, many native plants that depend on them for polination would also be at risk, and the animals that feed on them too, and animals that feed on those and so on, negatively affecting the whole ecossystem. Ultimately, this could lead to damage to us humans, as the people there rely on native crops that could be at risk due to all of this. Its good that the hornets are there to kill invasive bees as that protects the native bees and therefore the entire ecossystem. This is even good for us humans, because it means that we can bring the european bees there and use them in our own beefarms without fear they will invade the natural habitat since unprotected european beehives are vulnerable to the hornets (this is not guaranteed though and should be done carefully regardless). In nature, the only pests are we humans and whatever we bring with us (like the european honeybees, which are already invasive in many parts of the world).

[@guili188]

0:25 More hornets joined the attack.

[@ghzcoolz7634]

Can we all have a moment of silence for the Bees who already sacrifice themselves to protect their own colony and the young Bees

[@cozmic5655]

If only they used nord VPN

[@amanimango]

mhm :/

[@austinkahora6218]

@@cozmic5655 XD

[@MadSceintist]

This is the same as the human race as being decimated against your will. This strengthens the reason i don't believe in God "the all merciful", "the all powerful". Where was the mercy? Where was a sufficient reason 30k peaceful bee's that nurture the rest of nature lost to 30 useless parasites. Explain that appropriately

[@SRS.SMD_95]

1:50 especially them. Look how 2 bees jumped on the monster making it fly how heroic. I feel like im watching a movie lmaoo

[@mrfancypancook]

There should be a movie called “Hornets” like the bee movie but it’s Animated r rated

[@aro4322]

@@nathanielbugg7355 😮

[@doppiotoxicity8402]

I died reading this

[@mefnow]

@@nathanielbugg7355 can't find it. Only a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal shows up when I search for it

[@Poever]

Yes, Plan Hornet!

[@thepandabookkeeper3180]

Antz lol

[@Ameerkat]

0:18 I love how the other bees pick up the dead body and bring it back from the front lines like medics

[@haroonyousafi5262]

3:10 This was honestly the saddest part🥺

[@prepareforwinter213]

Nah, watching them wiggle in pain was rougher

[@cicadaandwaspenthusiast]

The saddest part was seeing the dying hornets.

[@Mousevengeance]

​@@cicadaandwaspenthusiastit won't be long till nations unite and make the Asian hornet extinct, and thats exactly what this vermin need.

[@tkdbz4411]

Bruh I want a part 2 just called Bee Wars: The Revenge Of The Bees

[@randomnessproductions4212]

Watch the one that's like this but with the Japanese bees.

[@rafiqhazarry2465]

@@randomnessproductions4212 Got a link?

[@randomnessproductions4212]

@@rafiqhazarry2465 yeah here it is m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3_VoHite92bbKs

[@rafiqhazarry2465]

@@randomnessproductions4212 Thank you

[@rafiqhazarry2465]

@@randomnessproductions4212 Thank you

[@TheGamingBun]

0:17 "Come this is no place to die"

[@Kamal_AL-Hinai]

Broooo imagine that

[@SirKolass]

**Dies**

[@Wock66]

Props the bee holding the camera, he was a true survivor.

[@George.Coleman]

2:05 **Feels bee above** "COME HERE YOU LITTLE- oh, hey Bob" "Hey Fred"

[@standardbenutzerx5619]

Bees: _Just living their life_ Hornets: Execute Order 60 stings

[@PetrFigala]

66?

[@ekgaddar1]

@@PetrFigala sixty stings

[@areaxisthegurkha]

I see what you did there heh

[@casper5379]

69

[@StaticDaSticc]

*EXECUTE ORDER 66!* Captain Rex: wait these aren’t battle droids

[@AmazingFlamingSkull]

0:17 that bee is like: NOO! JOHNSON! WE NEED A MEDIC, MAN DOWN, MAN DOWN!

[@baybay7765]

Bee medic: Roger that! Medic OTW!

[@satlmsagannaltnlar5698]

Wall is breached pull back to keep...retreattt

[@ehab1300]

“WE ARE SUFFERING HEAVY CASUALTIES, ALL AVAILABLE PERSONNEL ARE T-! THEY BROKE THE DEENCE!

[@pranavmishra9283]

Meanwhile their queen - "we give them no ground stay on offence".

[@wewhogame8747]

Flash backs to saving private Ryan

[@ClemensAlive]

This is like WW2 Dog Fights!

[@Zoro-fk4gk]

Clemens? Du hier? :D

[@mariafox9226]

Honeybees: Hornets be warned. You have declared war on the honeybees. Hornets: This is not war, this is pest control. Honeybees: We have 30,000 honeybees. How many are you? Hornets: 30. Honeybees: You would destroy the honeybees with 30 hornets? Hornets: We would destroy the honeybees with ONE hornet. You are superior in only one respect. Honeybees: what’s that? Hornets: You are better at dying.

[@izzyzle]

when they started eating babies i went on full “😱😱😱” mode

[@GL-ys8je]

Bro thats the most tender tasting meat.

[@badaboop3660]

*NATURE*

[@bagelbob3979]

i think we make a robotic sick bay for the bees and get tiny drone to kill these falme thrower so r get these frone to capture the hornets and flame them in bioling lava

[@jackstrayfeald1007]

1:55 That's an A for effort for that bee.

[@sillybob9689]

Eh for acceptable tactic, I grade it...Bee.

[@richardjared960]

Bee: VALHALLA AWAITS!

[@Wolf-Nyan]

“I’M READY! HOW ‘BOUT YOU!?” ~the bee, maybe

[@neptune1564]

*WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT- OHH!!!!*

[@mikethespike056]

I think it's CGI.

[@PlaneCrasher420]

Props for the camera man for being that close to a war.

[@jimmylance2844]

This looks like an alien war

[@jortemanss2826]

the camera man just standing by watching how his bee hive is getting slaughtered

[@cozmic5655]

I wonder if he is enjoying it I know I am

[@jaydrives9822]

I know right. He might get nervous and run

[@TheLastWord117]

You arent supposed to interrupt nature, even at her most cruel state.

[@pvvineet1722]

Plot twist: This video was captured by a hornet

[@riverefurd853]

@@TheLastWord117 says who lmao

[@watchbro8409]

1:46 The bee riding the hornet wouldn't have crashed if it had read the drivers manual or at least watched "how to train your dragon" before takeoff.

[@Postermaestro]

it's amazing how organized and deliberate they are

[@mushroomman3919]

U can’t cap tho it’s pretty impressive how fast they wiped out the whole hive

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

That's why evolution is a myth. How many traits have to develop simultaneously for any of this to work as it does.

[@javedfazil6686]

One of these hornets stung me on my ear and the pain lasted for eight hours straight and no pain killer was effective. They are nasty

[@glasswater5311]

"Animals, unlike humans, never commiting such a terrible things like genocide, mass murder, concentration camps..." Fresh news: the humans just brought it to the new level.

[@DannyrusK]

Why tf did you comment that on this video. This vid is about bees being massaged by Hornets...maybe a ww2 vid but ether then that :/

[@DannyrusK]

ALSO THEY KILL THE BABY BEES NOOO :(

[@glasswater5311]

@@DannyrusK * you wouldn't get it.

[@DannyrusK]

Sry

[@amistrophy]

Aaron Ifafore-Angoy Debatable whether we are more intelligent. But yes we are animals.

[@tehcaptainandy5]

Watching Japanese honey bees murder a hornet just to come to their relatives in Europe get slaughtered really is a big oof

[@lillystern]

Same😭

[@eldreadnaught7412]

Bro same

[@imnana6993]

Yeah those Japan honeybees need to teach these guys their ways

[@bkjeong4302]

If it makes you feel better, European honeybees are a major invasive species (yes, that’s how they ran into Asian giant hornets in the first place-the bees invaded Asia).

[@imnana6993]

Bk Jeong So karma got them good

[@aichi_d3a1]

2:06 "Ey bro watch yo jet" "Watch yo jet bro" *"WATCH YO JE-"*

[@vaccino3359]

Bees are one of the most underrated animals in the whole animal kingdom.

[@bazookaboss332]

Humans: we wage constant brutal wars, thousands dying on both sides Hornets: *cute*

[@vladdracul5072]

@Hello World! Also, humans kill other species for fun, because they are not useful in their eyes, or because they preposterously think they have the right to determine where and how other species live. Hornets don't bother other species that are not their prey, except in self-defence.

[@steamyninja8881]

@@vladdracul5072 Bro this is so true, and it doesn't even have to be strong humans or fully grown ones killing other species. Like for example, I think every little kid has poured water down an ant hole just for fun 😆killing hundreds for no other reason just to entertain ourselves.. and those are KIDS, not evena adults ahaha

[@vladdracul5072]

@@steamyninja8881 Yes, I remember that I'm also not totally innocent in that regard.

[@posteren551]

2:19 props to the cameraman for going inside the hive and filming that's very brave of him!

[@rafaelanderson2953]

Cameraman is a legend didn't you know that

[@SaturnRingersonVI]

I know this is another cameraman joke but how exactly did they film this inside the hive during this war Pls be serious

[@user-sk3nf2vv4p]

@@SaturnRingersonVI We can thousand of kilometers away from and look at smallest atom in the universe. Now ask yourself how did they/we film inside the hive?

[@clothesgamer8192]

I was looking for a comment like this and was going ti say this until I saw yours

[@marcoswillianaraujo-zs8ey]

@@SaturnRingersonVI The cameraman is a wasp, don't fall for wasp propaganda.

[@deidrediane9594]

I hate those things! They are the same as wicked demons. I was stung by one a few years ago, and it was the worse pain I have ever endured. Even after having three children, it was worse than labor pains.

[@x-mensangel3567]

“This plaque is to commemorate the brave honeybees who gave their lives to keep this hive safe from the hornet menace.”

[@leonidasxiv7881]

“Lest we forget”

[@daanvandongen1422]

'We've got them outnumbered one to a thousand! Rush them!' 'No, we must insist on attacking one at a time.'

[@amritnalam6632]

Yeah XD. They were scared prolly

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin I don't know wut to say anymore

[@MarSHornetsandWasps-v26]

@@d.k.mministry1950 I don't know what to say anymore

[@bryanjacobs9680]

The Bee general should be hung for incompetence

[@rohitgautam6693]

Hornets : let's bring some freedom and democracy to d bees

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin triple self comment copier

[@Bobby.B619]

Underrated comment

[@Syuvinya]

@@d.k.mministry1950 wtf

[@Hetzerg]

Haha i love this sarcastic comment intended for murica. The global police trying to spread some 'freedom' all over the globe

[@Syuvinya]

@@Hetzerg Stop explaining a joke

[@x3much]

He grabbed his man much respect

[@HellstreamGames]

The few bees who picked up cameras were the smart ones 😅

[@katharina...]

Imagine if there were some giant humans attacking us, killing us, and eating our babies ;'(

[@neerajkrishnang3916]

Isn't that what Attack on Titan is all about ?

[@BIG0PPAI]

@@neerajkrishnang3916 ^

[@rithikmadan]

Ever heard of cannibals??😬

[@DavidSmith-eh7rs]

I'd rather not

[@xorben1981]

I have a few ideas 😇

[@nadeemsadeia2999]

Why not to make hive entrance smaller? Then hornets can't enter

[@Hyraladen]

Hornets have massive Jaws, so I don't a small hole will stop them from chewing their way inside

[@cintronproductions9430]

We must breed tame bee-eaters that recognize bees as friends but massacre hornets on sight, and place two or three tame bee-eater guards near the hives to repel hornets.

[@astick5249]

@@Hyraladen people actually do put a metal mesh over the nest so that only the bees can fit inside its a simple solution that works pretty well.

[@Hyraladen]

@@astick5249 that's amazing, I hope majority of bee farmers are using that solution

[@astick5249]

@@Hyraladen Yea the people who live in the hornets natural habitat have found good ways to coexist with them

[@JewsonDaimary]

The reason I used to kill Hornets back in my childhood days whenever they approached our beehives

[@War__robots]

dont blame them blame the dam nature who made them like this and they do have a job in the echosystem

[@adielstephenson2929]

That bee that stayed on top of the hornet as it was flying, bravely stinging its neck, is a legend.

[@darklightyt2190]

0:17 that’s pretty cool The bees bring back the fallen soldier

[@jonathancerda794]

00:18 Hornets: bzzzbzzbzzz Bee: Benny’s down ! Benny’s down! .. I got you bro! I got you Benny: bzz-zz

[@DNS-Freakz]

Would be more like Sis because they are all female

[@pankeke5700]

People from Trash Taste: 👁👄👁

[@pravinshah3706]

I think the cameramen is a another Bee making documentry.

[@borjapeb3767]

If I was recording this, I would leave the camera and rush to help the bees.

[@ParadoxVoid08]

That may be. But having this on film is extremely important to demonstrate the dangers of imported species

[@gian0253]

@@ParadoxVoid08 so this is what happening here then I'm gonna squash some hornet As easy as that

[@mohinuddinbhuiyan8745]

Than you would be among the casualties

[@Jsrowson]

Well thousands of hornets will attack

[@Dgero]

But now you fighting hornets

[@SupaFonzy]

0:17 bee dragging her injured homie back to the colony:- I need a medic over here!!

[@OrcaKillerWhalePlaysOFFICIAL]

Bro a bee attacked a hornet so hard that the hornet litteraly fell to the ground

[@catthelazyone3366]

0:18 noooooo the way they pulled it in to protect like.... imma cry leave bees alone

[@leonardonardulli1654]

A world without bees will never be the same.

[@Quanbe77]

a world without Bombus and bee so without important Pollinator will be a disaster

[@dterror3679]

Will never bee the same i guess

[@absolutezerochill2700]

Actually without honeybees we'd be fine Just no money from honey

[@toni4729]

A world without bees will be completely dead. Nothing will live.

[@elkinshiner5066]

@@absolutezerochill2700 Honey bees pollinate 80% of the world’s vegetation. Most of the fruits and veggies you eat are thanks to bees. They’re one of the most important organisms on the planet.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

European honeybees don’t have a defense mechanism unlike the Japanese honeybees. Once the hornets arrive, they’re doomed

[@fellipedasilva99]

The domesticated ones are safe tho. Since humans are not very happy with their honey supplies being tampered with. A keeper can just walk up to the box in a suit and squish them during the attack. The hornets are completely outmatched in that situation. Unfair for the hornets but great help for the bees. The hornets are actually doomed since they are messing with a human livestock. And as shown in nature time and time again, that’s not a very good idea. The population of bees in the wild are huge anyway. Sucks that we have to deal with another new invasive species in the Americans again...

[@bubblysprite8089]

What about Africanized counterparts

[@ethanharry539]

@Desean Martin pls stop

[@TheAvsouto]

@@bubblysprite8089 in the next episode: Africanized Bees VS Japanese Giant Hornets.

[@dermancanitez7976]

Like it's said in the video, these hornets are the asian variant, and these bees are the european variant. These bees never lived among these hornets thus didn't evolve to find ways to counter them unlike the Japanese bee. It's kind of unfair matchuo because i find it unlikely European bees are used in Asia eventhough European bees bring in more honey than their Asian counterpart.

[@snicklesnockle7263]

I like how they bought a commercial hive to sacrifice it. I wonder how much it costed.

[@ray_gaming7]

The problem would be solved if you just made the opening to the beehive smaller. Bees get in, hornets can't. I honestly don't understand why they havent done this.

[@sheridan5175]

"we have 30 thousand. How many are you?" "30" You would kill 30 thousand bees with 30 hornets?" "WE WOULD KILL 30 THOUSAND BEES WITH ONE HORNET! You are superior in only one respect! "And what is that?" "YOU ARE BETTER AT DYING!"

[@MrDibara]

Awesome. 😁 Love me some Doctor Who references.

[@ljllob4740]

I got it 😂

[@callumdalton9560]

Pretty much how the series 2 finale went down

[@RuhjedVentula]

Japanese honey bees came up with a defense just for asian giant hornets...they encapsulate the hornet and vibrate their bodies until the hornet gets cooked inside..sad to say European honey bees dont do that

[@xy5853]

May glory be to the one that created these creatures Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, and the ships which sail through the sea with that which is of use to mankind, and the water (rain) which Allah sends down from the sky and makes the earth alive therewith after its death, *and the moving (living) creatures of all kinds that He has scattered therein* and in the veering of winds and clouds which are held between the sky and the earth, are indeed Ayat (proofs, evidences, signs, etc.) for people of understanding. - the quran For people of understanding For people of understanding For people of understanding

[@fahim5532]

It's because the bees here in Europe have not been in contact with Asian hornets whereas the Japanese bees have evolved

[@xy5853]

@@fahim5532 bring proof that these bees evolved.

[@daanvandongen1422]

@@xy5853 They didn't. that's why they're dead now.

[@xy5853]

@@daanvandongen1422 if you thought that i meant these bees in the video then there is a problem ; i meant European bees in general... Understand comments correctly before replying..

[@kiloperson5680]

Those spinning shots of the hive's entrance with the hornets flying in front in slo mo was ULALAAA

[@spedspade123]

Props to the camera bee and the camera hornet for recording

[@unitedfan9646]

30 000 bees died for this video 🙁

[@eppiechan5673]

Yet, it might be a corner of the iceberg in reality. 😭😭😭

[@neb985]

No, this video captured the moment in nature. It would have still happened even if no camera was rolling.

[@karmagyalpo3543]

martyed

[@imnana6993]

It was for the video they didn’t lure the hornets to the nest so they could film it’s just part of nature

[@veebee3837]

The honey bees are so brave. Feel so bad from them.

[@kristjan1757]

when wil come day I will retire ans set up a hammock as cllose as thay 'd let me watch them for an afternoonn . persoanlly i have grown to like the buzzing sound very relaxing chilly out time

[@bluejay3748]

@@kristjan1757 Are you 7 or just got hit on the brain?

[@silashurd3597]

The Hornets gotta eat too

[@mattwilkinson5858]

It’s not bravery, they don’t know the concept of bravery, they are doing their job

[@Kallastar.]

@@mattwilkinson5858 🤓

[@RyzaTT]

I'm here from Trash Taste and HOLY SHIT THEY WERE NOT WRONG '30000 VS 30, Who'd win? The answer may shock you'

[@haanei7486]

This is like A Bug's Life movie but bees vs. hornets.

[@christianham4040]

Just imagine one lonely bee coming back from a quest to retrieve the crown of bees and now he returns to this. His whole clan slaughtered.

[@sacrafiice5765]

on sum sasuke shit

[@nithraliabrawlstars6541]

Her* kiddo

[@chrisshoults2348]

Respect to the little camera man filming all this inside the nest

[@Badfriendsfan101]

Wild to me how nature has a way of communicating with eachother without talking

[@cinderleaves3949]

The buzzing terrifies me and the bee bodies up close give me anxiety... *yet i must keep watching*

[@chaneric1638]

Just imagine if this was someone's bee hive and they saw these hornet killing their bees: *fire time.*

[@heyitsjustme.680]

I could not just sit by and film this! 😭🐝❤️

[@MagicMan-bu4ud]

I think this was good 3d editing.

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

@@MagicMan-bu4ud Some was, some was real.

[@ranimeRAT]

@@eskanda3434 These are invasive hornets.

[@alucozadebottle4423]

@@ranimeRAT you mean english Hornets? (Get it cuz england)

[@TheMartyandy]

What do you propose is done? All methods of fending off the hornets would harm the bees too.

[@hopoff9968]

I like how this highlights why invasive species are so dangerous, they can completely disrupt the balance of an ecosystem.

[@justinbuska3499]

The bees are the invasive species in this clip as it was filmed in Japan.

[@Joshua-ki7lm]

It's like a start to a cinematic movie about a war

[@rickshae2506]

So that’s what happened with the villages Genghis Khan had attacked. Entire cities wiped out if choose to resist

[@eyelander]

That was just simple thing at that time. All countries would have do that.

[@citizenx7585]

01:46 amazing scene. feels like it was a movie.

[@torbjrnlund903]

Awesome. It's a bee bee see production.

[@beeco-pilot6741]

0:18 when your friends are defending you

[@bruhjustanothermalaysian8117]

Bee movie never been the same anymore.

[@ramam8084]

Nature is always surprising to me, I am always grateful to be part of it and let it be part of my job, and that is the reason why I love to share the wildlife knowledge with others. I love the video. Well done

[@joeyvv4448]

This is not really "nature" tough this is Japanese hornets killing European defenseless bees. The hornets were brought here by humans

[@dermancanitez7976]

@@joeyvv4448 or the bees were brought to asia. If i have a look on the background it seems a bit jungle like environment

[@memlordnord567]

This is actually quite painful to watch since I am a beekeeper myself X3

[@StaticDaSticc]

Protogen pog

[@Zazinikki]

Same here

[@MadSceintist]

Truly heartbreaking. I wanted to crush those Hornets through the phone

[@Slick-Wit-it]

I like how the hornets eat the baby bees heads 😋. Then we shall kill the hornets.

[@Slick-Wit-it]

@@MadSceintist. No. First let those hornets have their delicious meal 😋 and then kill em.

[@dogecoookie5585]

Imagine Hornets vs a huge nest of killer bees

[@bkjeong4302]

Killer bees would do even worse due to their aggression; they’d try to defend the colony by randomly swarming en masse, but Asian giant hornets are well-suited for (and have behavioural adaptations for) killing colonies of other eusocial insects in that sort of scenario (and with each hornet literally killing one bee every few seconds in extreme cases), so it just means a target-rich environment for the hornets. It’s like trying to charge cavalry into a line of autocannon emplacements. And the only way honeybees of any species can kill Asian giant hornets is by overheating them, as the hornets are too well-armoured for their stings to penetrate; against a single Asian giant hornet trying to pick off one bee to take back to its colony, killer bees (and European honeybees, which are the same species as killer bees) could actually do well. The problem is that Asian giant hornets don’t always operate alone, and in group attacks (like the one shown in this video) they will try to kill every single bee in a hive first BEFORE they start taking their kills back to their colony, so in those cases trying to confront the hornets directly just gets the bees killed faster. The Asiatic honeybee (as in, the honeybee that evolved in a predator-prey relationship with these hornets) has much more organized defensive behaviours (targeting scouting hornets and erasing the marker pheromones left by scouts so a massed attack won’t happen, falling back into chokepoints inside the hive to set up ambushes, etc) instead of just mounting an all-out counterattack. Even then, the hornets do win some of the time, but it’s still a much better defence.

[@denshizzle0517]

Must be heartbreaking to film..

[@VizNotReady]

The war= hornets definitly gonna win The farmer offscreen= not so fast i bring forth ddt and bug killer

[@mlpfanboy1701]

No that kills the bees too.

[@yipyap6161]

@@mlpfanboy1701 Acceptable Casualties

[@Dgero]

@@yipyap6161 Are bees under protection of the Geneva Convention?

[@yipyap6161]

@@Dgero They would qualify as Chemical weapons because they sting venom, so their entire existence is BANNED.