Cyprian honeybees gang up to smother hornet

[biggamerboy1]

it's cypriot not cyprian (that is if you are speaking of cyprus if not my misstake)

[imthechamp100]

i think the hornet thought the bees were playing football so it got inside of their huddle up and realized it was a goner

[skatobetho]

Of course the Cyprian Honeybees are indestructible Θηρειον

[iToasterman]

Bees: its a hornet Hornet: BEE HIVE >:D Bees: come in... Hornet: entering... Bees:wait, send the signal out Hornet: Marking mah teratory Bees: keep waiitng Hornet: gonna leave Bees: NOW *bees engolve hornet vibrating cooking it alive* Bees: Honey roasted hornet anyone?

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman Bahahah! Amazing!

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul Bees = cruel mofos = germans?

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman Not necessarily. I know a bunch of nice Germans. But yes, bees are cruel mofos. Hornets are nastier. Anything that stings are cruel mofos. Almost fucking killed me on Tuesday night, because that's how allergic I am to their venom. Good thing that medicine has advanced enough to have cures for such things.

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul o.o

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman What?

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul ur alergy, u almost died D:

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman Eh. It's not all that bad. I stopped breathing, so I forced a straw down my windpipe, and could breathe again, because of the space made in it for air to enter. I didn't even feel the straw go down due to my lack of neural transmission. So, it wasn't that bad. It was pretty painless.

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul That sounds even worse

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman I guess. I don't know. I didn't feel the pain though, and forcing the straw down my windpipe made me breathe, and I lived. So yeah. What sucks is that the next time I'll get a cardiac arrest, and have 20 minutes to live, unless stabbed on my leg with an Epipen, in which case, woo. Medicine saves.

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul why cardiac arrest next time?!

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman Because that's Stage 4 of an Anaphylactic shock. Each sting corresponds with the subsequent stage. The first sting generally leads to stage 1, the second stage 2, third, stage 4, fourth, stage 4, and every other time, stage 4. However, I hit stage 3, on the first time, which means that the second time WILL lead to stage 4. And Stage 4 leads to cardiac arrest.

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman The stages of an Anaphylactic shock work that way.

[iToasterman]

@TheReverberatingSoul FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Dont die D:

[TheReverberatingSoul]

@iToasterman Lol. I won't die. There's a reason why I have an Epipen with me.

[MikeGasm]

Honey roasted

[MrMajorronin]

i want to see a photo of dead hornet! 

[ICIloud]

dogpile

[alexsouls1]

thats some crazy stuff

[Balthic]

That'd make a pretty awesome weapon. Imagine swinging at someone with a ball of bees attached to the end of a stick.

[RicNatureboyFlair]

@Balthic hehehe if their was a comment of the year award id vote for you... i'd rather get shot with a rifle than hit with the ball of bees

[hanukenovember]

Not all bees use the same defence. Bees and hornets breath from the back of their necks. I've read elsewhere that some bee species use propolis to block the breathing holes of the hornet.

European bees just get slaughtered.

Asian Bees do the cooking thing from inside the nest. These aren't Asian ( I don't think ) And this is happening outside of the nest.

[crazybutt13]

i was itching a lot when i saw this

[infowazz]

we need to do that to the illuminati

[ontariobuds]

that is gross looking.

[Kaasbaas045]

gotte love them ganging up on the hornet... so we dont have to xD

[stuart2416]

LAL

DO NOT WORRY, WE IZ WEARING HIM DOWN

[vintagegodz]

Wow so instead of one of them being a hero they heat it up. What clever bastards.

[mizknot]

They are not smothering the giant hornet. The raise the core temperature of the ball to about 118F. Honeybees are temperature tolerant to 118F where as Giant hornets are only tolerant to 115F.

Miz

[Bisheavi]

the bees must have gotten pissed off or something

[3dgun]

@Bisheavi i think bees and hornets are enemies, watch 30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees and you'll see why. it's pretty sweet.

[lilwobby22]

wow are you holding that?? if i was you id drop that and run like hell

[jaimecruz666]

like i said humans are stupid and curious what would of happen if those bees turn on whoever is holding it idiot

[weezyfcrazy23]

u calling me an idiot are the guy holding it?

[rookie2202]

@jaimecruz666 Bees are friendly ... they only turn on people that are a threat to them.

[wadyano]

get'em

[cortezthekiller512]

Bees killed my second cousin like this.

[Pilkingtube]

fascinating

[aeminence]

HAHAAH

[Zuesandme]

how? just by stingin him lol it depends if he was a kid and the bess wer all over him haha

[FoxHound109]

No, the bees do BOTH "cook" the hornet alive AND suffocate it. They raise their temperature to 117 degrees or so, all the while not allowing toxic gases to escape the ball. They kill the hornet BOTH ways.

[o0OmgImHere0o]

STACKS ON!!!

[alexxbamsey]

they vibrate to 107 degrees actually :P

[mtthwlacroix]

they do vibrate up to 117 degrees, i just watched the documentary. it said they can tolerate up to 118 degrees and the hornet can only take up to 115 so it dies

[TitWarlord]

@mtthwlacroix so did i

u think ur special?

[mtthwlacroix]

@TitWarlord very special. like park in the front of the parking lot special

[TC2588]

no your wrong..it actually is 117 degrees not 107...fail

[Demonlord275]

actually they dont soffocate the hornet they roast it alive by vibrating to increase their body temperature to 117 degrees which is enough to roast a human.

[kjun13]

are these those asian bees that rub their asses together to create a lot of heat?

[Demonlord275]

yes.

[fdesouchecom]

fahrenheit, not celsius.

[MattNJohnathan]

I wanna smack someone with that ball of bees. :D!

[garymeikle35]

a hornet can withstand a tmprature of 115 degrees farenheight a honey bee can withstand 118, the honey bees raise their temprature to 117 to roast the hornet lovely

[Andenator72]

Extreme insect Gang-Bang D:

[WhiteHawkUK]

A stark contrast to another video in which a small group of hornets decimate an entire bee colony. Kamikaze bees! Cool vid, ta. :)

[Byrill]

Haha

[gregaperkin]

They don't suffocate the hornet, apparently the mass of bees all vibrating their muscles raises the temperature of the hornet to a lethal temperature. Weird as fuck.

"Don't mess with me, I'll warm you up mo'fo'"

[AF501GUY]

hahahahahaha YEAH!

[BiftaDubstep]

@gregaperkin lmfuckinao

[umidontno040394]

@gregaperkin sometimes they do suffocate it at the same time as they cook it.

think about all the co2 building up inside that ball.

[Color0fSoul]

@gregaperkin sickkkkkkk so its like an all natural organic microwave =DDDDDD

[lp4097]

@gregaperkin These bees (Cyprian) do suffocate the hornet, its the Japanese bees that cook them. The temperature inside the Cyprian bee-ball is less than needed to kill the hornet (44C vs 50C), so they think it deprives of oxygen instead.

[WiGgy4201]

@gregaperkin you got that from that other vid didnt you

[hiynastrike]

orb of stingers

[rank6274elite5]

MATRIX !!!!!! HORNET NEO BEES SMITH

[corndogsmoothie]

go honeybees lol

they're the non aggressive kind (that is) if you threaten them)

[mattedjack]

lol wat. All bees will attack you if you threaten them, just to different extents. These are japanese honey bees, different from the regular ones. YAY LEARNING

[kravorzlair]

Hey where are the gory moments ? (just kidding)

[Tanimal97]

freaking straight from the alleyway

[YeahFrenchy]

Gangster bees killin rival gangmembers lol

[Gionassi]

Now go fishing with it. Bet you catch yourself a shark or something ;)

[TopDog69]

Imagine just GRABBING that. Go on imagine it. Bet you're sickened by the thought.

[Tozzywozzy]

said it to myself before I even read that!!! :O That would kill

[mexuscanstamps]

Nothing shows. :(

[Tristanvash38]

orgy

[klober23]

They aren't exactly suffocating it. They are raising the temperature of the hornet by vibrating their butts. The hornet dies from heat.

[891465]

thankyou god finnaly someone tell those idiots!

[BlackKnight03]

I remembering hearing about this in a video game

[thebulardman]

Yes it would be very hard to suffocate an insect, even by putting it water, due to the fact that they have an air pocket of sorts in their bodies which can allow them to survive, from what I hear, for several hours without breathing.

[Snarkbutt]

Japanese honeybees surround attacking hornets to raise the temperature to over the hornet's tolerance, but that temperature is too little to roast this particular species of hornet. The Oriental hornet dies at a lower temperature, but this type can live beyond that, and moreover, the Cyprian honeybees shown here can not raise the temperature to the 49 degrees C required to roast even an Oriental hornet, let alone the 50 degree resistant hornet which lives near Cyprian bees. Geographic evolution.

[Snarkbutt]

These Cyprian bees do hold this position for several hours, spurring the idea that they may be suffocating the hornet among scientists who observe overheating taking a much shorter time. Because the Cyprian bees are incapable of roasting their hornet like the Japanese honeybees can, the idea is that they suffocate it instead, hence the several hour span. It is a different method used by a different species of bee.

[Shintroy]

I saw this on NG when with the asian hornet/bees.

waaay better.

[caosthry]

hughlooks is sssssssssssssttttttttttttuuuuu­uuuuuupppppppppppppppiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiddddddddddd

[bobzilla211]

That hornet got zerged.

[hughlooks]

Where was the hornet? I didn't now they got that big.

[goonerash]

more like a gang bang...

[dustinlull]

New Scientist made that video? Wow. How disappointing. I expected better.

[TheRealSnedz]

How do we know theres not just a fruity, sugary sweet in the middle.

[SponggeBobb]

Urm.. It's not very long.

[Kufell]

Its surprising how bad this video is, its like you didnt even put any effort into it, I would of seriously expected better.

[JuliatmjXXX]

fabulous disgusting

[evelynhattie]

you haters! i loved it!!!! actually... no... id rather scoop turd from my ass with a razorblade before watching this life sapping drivel again...

[amchris66]

what a fucking shite video.. pointless..

u know what?

a tennis ball on a string would have only been very slightly more boring.

[paxochicken69]

poop

[u2mixer]

OMG - crap!

[rankingjohnmajor]

Where is the hornet? What a load of shit

[1qaz2qaz]

Isn't that a hornet scout that the bees must kill so that it doesn't get all the other hornets in its 'tribe' to come and 'pillage their homes'? Also I thought they overheated it so it died and they almost do (a near kamikaze operation if you will)

[HuptyCupty]

how do we knw its a hornett an its shit anyway

[goingtogoing]

that wernt no hornet t was turd

[goonerash]

cyprian bee...GANG BANG

[MEKofTheMEKkingdom]

We got some bee on hornet crime over here! D8

[Thursday62]

They don't smother the hornet, they actually bake it by raising their body temperatures to a point which almost kills themselves.

[cobrazor]

i saw that show too and it only works when their in the colony

[spiderbowels]

looks like a walking dog turd

[themarcopirroarchive]

oh my god I just wasted 10 seconds of my life watching that.....and another 10 writing this.

[spicymeat123]

What a shite video

[pyrosis10]

they really dont like that bastard do they

[Nijitechie]

So, if that hornet isn't cyprian, is this - like - bee racism?

[mariofan101]

lol bee racism

[LIAMTINGSTOREY]

rubbish

[missRbeckett]

Best comments I've ever seen!

[stuntmunky]

she is blind btw

[missRbeckett]

Hee! Fat bees to you!

[ohebansword]

by cyprian honey bees do you mean here from the actually country cyprus? because if so it's cypriot! thank you for listening =]

[newscientistvideo]

Actually, 'cyprian' is correct. I was surprised too, but it turns out the word 'cypriot' only refers to people from Cyprus. Anything else that comes from Cyprus is 'cyprian'. Check the OED if you don't believe me!

I realise this is pedantic, but hey, you started it. :)

Michael Marshall, online editorial assistant

[tomocool99]

fat bees

[peaky91]

lmao freaks

[EruIluvatar]

i came

[nobogroll]

bee hive yourselves

[lmc100]

nice one nobogroll u make that up all by urself??? lol

[jointhegym]

lmao

XD

[nobogroll]

i dont think that was a hornet i think they was carrying there cash card about ,who would want to steal there cash card not me i wouldant get stung by them mothers

[alifresco]

They took our jerbs

[lynx35341]

check out "hornets from hell" you'll be amazed

[lynx35341]

know it wasn't the best clip i've ever seen, but i will admit that this happens in japan. When a hornet surveys a honey bee nest the honey bee's smother it a shake their bodies thus inducing heat that cooks the hornet alive so it cant report where the bee nest is. It's pretty clever.

[Stabinator705]

yep.. thats 16 seconds of my life wasted.. thanks

[XXXamy4mattXXX]

how the fuck r we sposed to no that was a hornet

[Sugaaaah]

i agree 4

[pa8ntballer]

I agree 3

[bobsaggit07]

Well That Was Shit

[ManiaCop100]

I agree

[ironhide94]

i agree 2

[bladnochthesecond]

i agree 5

[mgblue]

lol funny rud :)

[ruddigore28]

On behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service, I can say that at least thirteen of the Bees in this video are due to appear in court on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. They're also going to be facing charges for attempting to pervert the course of justice, and regardless of how tasty that jar of honey was.

[Swagged2]

I would charge the 13 bees in question on trying to smuggle an immigrant past airport customs.

[Jpc118]

From this I can in fact surmise on behalf of New Scientist, that the Hornet in question was actually bungee jumping at the time of the incident, and encountered a group of disenfranchised bees halfway down that smothered him because he looked at them oddly.

[glowballist]

This from the new scientist?Terrible!

[Gurglemouthwash]

BORING

[billy210uk]

How do we know there was a hornet underneath all that lot? I surmise it was in fact not a hornet, but a miniature Mini motorcar and a serious attempt at a new world record for the number of bees to fit inside it.

[joessmartproductions]

it was a load of crap!

[danieloliver91]

did u know that if a hornet gets into a bees nest the bees will block all the exits and the other bees will fly around and smother the hornet because the bees can handle 2 degrees more heat than a hornet can and eventually the hornet dies and the bees are fine.

and obviously they sting the shit out of it lol

[kook2222]

I didnt see no hornet, all I saw was a ball of bees surrounding something on the end of a fishing rod.

[joessmartproductions]

me to

[PKfart]

OWNED lol

[MariosTackle]

just one thing what is smother??

[woopetywoopwoop]

you dumbass! you dont even know what smother means!! how old are you? jeez!

[markysparky88]

maybe english isn't his first language...

[woopetywoopwoop]

good point....

[joessmartproductions]

thick ass

[Basonat]

Sweet

[TicTac2]

geez, I really wouldn't want to be that hornet...

[GoVegi]

lol, pwned

[CDRWilheim]

Thats one big ass hornet

[Dirkdiggler88]

this is an amazing evolution trait!

[joessmartproductions]

idiot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[thearmin]

pwned.....

[sanchos7meat7hat]

hehe take that hornet

[hangover71]

I didnt see shit

[aroundtheworlda]

nice

[peteyo12]

quarks i saw that two they make the center so hot by flapping there wings that it kills the hornet but the can withstand like 2 degrees high temperature

[lottiebaby27]

thats mental!

[QuarksAreStrange]

Are you sure they're trying to suffocate the hornet? (description). I saw bees ganging up on an Asian giant hornet (in a documentary) and by friction, heating it up to death. Those bees could survive higher temperatures. Wikipedia as an article about it too:

en.wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/Asia­n_giant_hornet#Native_honey_be­es

[newscientistvideo]

Hi QuarksAreStrange and peteyo12, yes we're sure. :) I've seen that documentary too (and thought it was amazing), and it was actually about Japanese honeybees. Those do indeed roast the hornet to death.

The video shows Cyprian honeybees, however, and these are definitely suffocating the hornet. The researchers measured the temperature inside the ball, and it was too low to kill the hornet.

Michael Marshall, online editorial assistant

[QuarksAreStrange]

ok, thanks : )

Keep up the good work, NewScientist team

[lukeginferno]

Haha

[cerebulon]

Yeah! Kick his ass, girls! Woman power!

[randumbusername]

lol. the hornet is probably another female.

[Unfathomable42]

I like the titles, we are slowly getting nearer that voice over!