Bee War
Thats friggin sick!!! One of the honey bees was riding a hornet... What a gangster lil honeybee...
I don't get why they all don't just swarm the hornets... they were like walking on the wood twitching their asses getting their heads bit off
I don't get why they all don't just swarm the hornets... they were like walking on the wood twitching their asses getting their heads bit off
Staging Lane
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Originally Posted by bluezaire
I saw that entire program when it aired on Discovery or Animal planet or whatever. There was another type of honeybee in that region than knew how to defend against those hornets. They would let them enter the hive and then they would all vibrate. The temp in the hive would get so high the hornets would literally cook. Somehow the honeybees could tolerate a much higher temp. They would then carry those big dead bastards out and discard them.
I was up late one night getting dressed for a late shift when i saw that, and ended up being late for work. oh well.
I was up late one night getting dressed for a late shift when i saw that, and ended up being late for work. oh well.
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Originally Posted by Cheatin' Chad
I was wondering that as well. The africanized honey bee is much more aggressive. They also tend to swarm very effectively. The european honeybees didn't seem to work as a group very well and were destriyed one by one.
for those people asking why the honeybee's didnt swarm the hornets...it really wouldnt have mattered. The narrorator said that the Hornets skin/shell (whatever they have) is too thick for the honeybees to penetrate
Looks like a classic case of the honeybees being attacked by the wannabees. 
The honeybees would have been better off telling the hornets, "do what you want to the girl (queen), but leave us alone! 
The honeybees would have been better off telling the hornets, "do what you want to the girl (queen), but leave us alone! 
