Wasps have a good memory for a face

[DeathKitty123456]

those wasps are crap, they don't have stripes... stupid wasps -.-

[MrDongkei]

tawon

[gilliangirl1]

What am I doing here?

[PanHustej]

Obviously if they have eyes so they can see.. as we recognize other people by remembering them.. its logical.. I think all living creatures are more or less same conceptionally.. created by our lord Jesus Christ ;)

[Oldenheimer1913]

@PanHustej

Jesus didn't even make anything, he was just a human being who performed miracles with God's power, he wasn't God himself. If he was, he wouldn't have been able to be killed, he would've kept on living. What ever happened to Adam and Eve, the first human beings and the ones who named all the animals on earth, many years before Jesus was even conceived?

Also, I'm an atheist and I hate all religion. But at least I know the proper chronology of the bible stories! You should be ashamed.

[Oldenheimer1913]

@Oldenheimer1913

And by kept on living, I don't mean rising again a few days later, I mean continuously living through whatever the Romans threw at him.

[PanHustej]

@Oldenheimer1913 Fantastic!! You have just assured me, that I will never meet you ever more!!

[tackywacky99]

0:55 it was dead.

[brmadman4455]

Waspspspspspps.

[chillardbee]

it's by smell that they remember. the longer they spend time duking it out and eventually start tolerating each other the more accepting they are of each other. if they where to spray a mint or vanilla scented solution on to different wasps before putting them together they would get along just fine.

[tapiwakay]

scent?

[conciousness88]

@nomi2090 ....horse felatio?

[Films4You]

I thought it was smell

[PhotoShopChannel]

@Films4You it is

[TheLoogyBear]

Yea prolly has nothing to do with pheromones.... they can remember each others FACE

[CatorsCinema]

Wasps are just bastards.

[TheCrunchyMadness]

0:47 LEMMEH GOE PLZ

[ericjeroenjansen]

Remembering a face you can easily hammer out......

In a few years some subsidized university will find out that they recognize the feromones of their hive.

[ontariobuds]

there is nothing harder to say than wasps.



[redghost105]

0:48 that wasp is making that other one his bitch

[Missix1992]

they say it's visual memory .... can't it just be that they recognise smells?

[tom5343]

its a bad name for the video it should be called 'wasps have a good memory for each other' or something along those lines

[ExForceFire]

lol, thanks a lot... now i know they can live more then i hope the would :S

which makes me more scared...

[nowoolovermine]

Why don't wasps take over the honey making responsibilities now that bees are dying off. It would certainly improve their reputation with the public.

[gdynski]

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

[ColtraneAndRain]

I would think that wasps who are from the same hive would all release the same scent, since they all come from one queen. I need more proof of visual recognition. How about they blindfold the wasps and try this experiment? lol.

[skyseasai]

hate em T.T

[nexus1g]

Who cares? Just find a better way to kill them please.

[madjimms]

We need wasps, killing them isn't the best idea...

[nexus1g]

I think we'll get along just fine without them. Evil beasts of Satan.

[madjimms]

Who is "Satan" ? Some sort of myth?

[nexus1g]

@madjimms The guy who made wasps. DUH

[madjimms]

Wasps aren't "made" they evolved.

[nexus1g]

@madjimms Anything as evil as a wasp does not evolve, they're created for evil and destruction and death.

[madjimms]

You sir are absolutely insane, wasps only screw with people that screw with them. OCCASIONAL they attack someone who didn't bother them.

If you think they are evil, perhaps you should look at Iraq or Saudi Arabia

[nexus1g]

@madjimms Wait. Are you taking me seriously?

[madjimms]

I honestly thought you were a bible thumping loony, I guess I was wrong. Sorry :-(

[jimiistheking]

@nexus1g haha thats gotta be the funniest youtube convo ive ever read

[usman2hype92]

@madjimms ur an idiot.

[madjimms]

@usman2hype92 Not really.

[zim57]

Hehe. I like that word. Wasps. Sounds wierd. Wasps.

[robertwc82]

so does picnic and roof

[DudeBobmation]

My guess is that each one has a certain chemical induced gland in which has a different smell or taste.

[vitruvian8807]

Ever gotten stung by a hornet? I have, hurts like hell.

[SEThatered]

I found one on a bench with my buttock. Next three days i had a nice big blob instead of an upper leg.

[J4M3SPR]

Intresting

[conorismyname]

They obviously give off a chemical to the other bee. They don't actually remember the face

[sircraigery]

Do you piss on everyone you meet and remember?

[Raziter]

I'm pretty sure they tell eachother between by the chemicals they let off, not their faces.

[WoWBlackrat]

How do they know the wasps were recognizing a face as opposed to anything else?

[Chachachadaa]

memory of a face is just a saying, my guess is that its chemical

[12thDecember]

Wasps don't bother me, but hornets make me head for the hills in a heartbeat :)

[ArmiesInSleevies]

12thDecember-

Whats the difference?

[12thDecember]

Because hornets get MAD at the least little provocation, just by getting near them, and will relentlessly pursue you until they sting the bejeebers out of you, and it HURTS a lot worse than a wasp sting. It's like hornets go into a frenzy, thus the expression "mad as a hornet." Beware those little bastids :)

[SEThatered]

I play "hornet ping-pong" with them when they fly into my home. By now it is 20:0 (20 "ping-ponged, 0 stung me). It is waaay more thrilling than a normal ping-pong game!

[ps2fan1]

wasps scare me

[raulitech]

that tiny brain does all that...it must be scent related not insect visual memory.

[geetarwanabe]

well that makes sense then... thats why wasps always chase me... they remember that i kill them!

[Riddi2007]

LOLLL

[mcspeed2000]

@geetarwanabe lol what the dead ones do?

[geetarwanabe]

@mcspeed2000 man i've commented on some really random videos before. This was a year ago? fuck me haha

[mcspeed2000]

@geetarwanabe haha i do the same mate, funniest ones are when readin ur own old drunk comments u dont remember writing

[albedoshader]

Learning how mechanisms like that work in the simply structured brains of insects can surely lead to some insights how they work in higher organized brains like ours.

Believe me, these scientists have a life.

[clownsong]

fucking wasps...

[graphstyle]

roblably smell. Just like ants

[netiaz]

Wasps don't remember a damn thing I tell them.

[gladeplugins]

lol

[StreetskaterX]

@netiaz Yea. You tell them that you'll get the bug spray. They attack and BAM!!!! Its to late for them to remember.

[TheMerlinOfAR]

I wonder if they recognize smell or what.

[herbalicious74]

uuuuhh, so in other words dont screw with the wasps?? lol

[dillibazarsadak]

its not that they r from the same colony...theyve fought before...now they dont fight because they remmember that they have already encountered the individual....i dunno if dats conclusive enough though

[catabuse]

This is not proof of memory.

A possibility exists where two wasps are born into the same environment, and then release the same pheromones. The wasps don't attack other wasps that release the same pheromones.

[EasyHardLivin]

That can be true too. Who knows

[Dirtfire]

It's been proven that wasps have memories. In fact ALL insects learn from experience. Everything that has a brain has a memory and can learn. The difference is in degree.

[89101forlife]

exept the gold fish he has a memory span of 3 sec he forgest it before he can learn it

[Dirtfire]

No, goldfish also have long-term memory. The Mythbusters actually tested that one out. They taught these fish to navigate a simple maze to find food.

[madjimms]

Goldfish have a 2+ minute memory span.

[sidthemyth]

misleading title... of course they remember!!

[FA113]

the interestingness of this subject matter fails to disguise the fact that the narrator's voice is quite bland and annoying...

[kukelz]

i dont know if that test is conclusive...

[thinker900]

Couldn't that be due to pheromones released by wasps of the same colony? Do the not produce different pheromones per colony making each stand apart? We know that Ants use it to get other ants to follow to a food source. Why not for colonial recognition as well?

[actuallyi]

ooh interesting

[NInjas0]

Well us Humans are still cleverer!

[BassCreek]

we are talking about wasps here! ;)

peace..:D

[addoumma]

yeah but wasps have a brain the size of a bread crumb. (metaphorically speaking)

[acomaco2]

now thats why they are on me all the time.. just becouse they saw me kill thier cousin and they want thier revenge!

[oliverscott2007]

How did they determine it was facial recognition? There are other ways the wasps could have remembered one another.

Either way, very interesting that even after 10 days there was still something in the wasps memory that wouldn't have been internalized from conception.

[waken12]

they vigurt it out in a prev test: they changed some marks on the face and observed than prev friendly interacting wasps turn aggressive.

[SlavaVB]

how do they know its visual not chemical

[TeleShaman]

thats what I was thinking.

[ssnatcherss]

Interesting!

[Plozen]

Lol cool.

[chakkeramon]

Now if i could just train to find my keys....hmmm

[RacerXGTO]

I like using the Ortho foamy wasp spray, the foam still lingers for several hours and the stupid wasps still try to go through the foam.

[chris7777777777777]

I could have guessed that, all bugs are like that haha Good study though

[bhoeschcody]

i love wasps

[VictorrMusic]

i hate wasps...

[JRxNewxGen]

like the guy below me said. the videos are great. but its hard to pay attention to her monotone uninterested voice.

[thoughtwaretv]

I paid attention fine.

[eddie604]

Can't they get somebody that has better pronounciation of words instead of her...I can do a better job than her.

[razielze]

so what does "they met before" means?

if the wasp grows in a certain "community", its logic to think it gets used to that particular "environment". by meeting a wasp that has something different from what it's used to,(maybe because its part of another community), it triggers defensive measures.

maybe sterilized lab wasps can have this chemical equilibrium screwed up by mixing and moving wasps around, thus leading to new discoveries! :P

[JRxNewxGen]

would they die? not know how to work together or would they adapt. interesting.

[BigEvan96]

Wasps creep me out...They have The faces of aliens lol

[Halomainaic1234]

Explains why I got stung more then once b4, not cool.

[naivurtiv]

It kind of makes you feel bad about killing them. Knowing that they have a network of friends and enemies makes them somewhat human. Now not only are you killing a wasp, but you're killing somethings friend.

[frvfilms2]

naivuriv ,haa,,,hilarious

and it makes sense

[throatkickerr]

That's deep.

[renger6002]

lmao.

well i usually don't kill them anyways, just keep my distance

[kobra332]

Or you might be helping them out by squashing one of their enemies. :P

[Paxmax]

ahh.. smart move.. less time wasted on fighting.

[joesnewboat]

what kind of fucking wasps are those!

[dafttool]

Paper Wasps.

[dafttool]

I guess insects aren't as stupid as people like to make them out to be (that goes for many other species of animals as well).

[UncleKennybobs]

I welcome our insect overlords.

[djsuperstar717]

all creatures are just like humans

[grasseline]

i like the emphasis on the SPS part of wasps

[zx1011]

well dress me up n call me sadie - whod av ever thot it - aint science jus wunnafull!!!

[hyper4lifedude]

they should re-title this "wasp ownage!"

[selsuru]

Wow that is impressive.

[quadstrike]

they tend to act more aggressive *nawing leg off and pulling, other going noooooooo!*

[BF2mods]

OO! wasps discovered the social life ! in some years theyll discover fire, and so on xD

nice vid.

[clearmenser]

face? I would propose smell is the key.

[ReisendeEuropa]

you are absolutely correct. they recognize each other by pheromones. If they don't recognize one it basically triggers the instinct to attack.

[threelegduck]

recognition and remembering of a mixture of chemicals is no less complicated than recognizing a visual cue .. must be pretty complicated stuff. sure, i think there are 'attack pheromones' and what not, but i've heard that a single molecule binds to many many different sensors in the antennae .. it has to be more than "one molecule representing wasp A and another one for wasp B ..."

//i think its amazing that dogs walk around basically reconstructing the history of the world with their noses

[dafttool]

Excellent point, pheromones are powerful force in the lives of insects, and this study didn't differentiate between sight & smell.

[righteousham]

That was the point that I was going to make dafttool.

[Swamy456]

hmm

[superfisto]

Females never forget.

[DeletedDelusion]

Very true...

Damn it.

[irish202]

lol that is so true, ye are like elephants:D

[hunteranubis]

Nah you just have to hit her prety hard in to the head. That should do the trick

[hyper4lifedude]

lol! ROFL!! i burst out laughing in real life there!

[intelligentfalling]

Oh crap! Its just a matter of time until they start to remember human faces! and then INSECT Apocalypse