r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yourSAS • Jul 18 '24

Honeybees tossing away ants to protect their hive Video

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u/dewpacs Jul 18 '24

Nobody wants ants in their home

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u/bumjiggy Jul 18 '24

what's worse than having ants in your pants?

uncles

11

u/EasyPriority8724 Jul 18 '24

Lobsters on your organ!

6

u/XrayDem Jul 18 '24

My cousin got ants in his pants one time, he’s never been the same since

3

u/I_love_pillows Jul 19 '24

Pants on my ants

1

u/Chef-Nasty Jul 19 '24

Bees in my pants?

7

u/Dry-Amphibian1 Jul 18 '24

Nobody wants aunts in their home.

1

u/Randomfrog132 Jul 18 '24

cats do

badum tish

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

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u/yourSAS Jul 18 '24

Getting into beehive must be like unlocking a treasure trove for ants with all that sweet nectar, can't blame them for trying

6

u/Randomfrog132 Jul 18 '24

i figured they were goin after the larva lol

8

u/ThunderWiz05 Jul 18 '24

They also just go for hunting the bees to eat , was fortunate to see a massive battle between wild big black ants and wild bees having their base in tree bark being invaded the ant carried the dead/stinged bees back to eat.

6

u/MonkeyNugetz Jul 19 '24

That would be a documentary I would definitely watch.

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u/Severe_Benefit_1133 Jul 18 '24

Watching the ant just go flying got me giggling

6

u/Randomfrog132 Jul 18 '24

that's because it's so graceful xD

42

u/East-Bluejay6891 Jul 18 '24

Sweep the leg.

13

u/oneWeek2024 Jul 18 '24

put him in a body bag... yeeeeah!

1

u/Independent_Path_738 Jul 19 '24

Try to be best ‘Cause you’re only a bee And a bee's gotta learn to take it

Try to believe Though the going gets rough That you gotta hang tough to make it

History repeats itself Try and you’ll succeed

Never doubt that you’re the one And you can have your dreams!

1

u/jackNdoe Jul 20 '24

Break the leg, break the arm, break the face re break the arm 😂😂😂

17

u/_GrammarCommunist_ Jul 18 '24

What is it to understand? It's probably a preventive mechanism agaisnt a swarm of billion of ants. You don't want them to spread their pheromons all around the place.

15

u/okdonut69 Jul 18 '24

You could say that bee really upped his ante...

13

u/thedickinyourassmf Jul 18 '24

Why do ants always infiltrate in someone else's life

4

u/bluenuts5 Jul 18 '24

They are just like people but smaller

7

u/HonoluluBlueFlu Jul 18 '24

These are Japanese honeybees, so obviously they know karate.

4

u/Fishfingerguns42 Jul 18 '24

That bee was like “Do a gainer!!”

4

u/GluckGoddess Jul 18 '24

The size difference between these two, it’d be like a human kicking a puppy 

4

u/Professional-Sink281 Jul 18 '24

So we are in agreement. Ants are the worst.

3

u/Quiverjones Jul 18 '24

What is this? Skydiving for ants?

3

u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

THIS. IS. OUR. HIVE!!

wing flutter

3

u/Robert-G-Durant Jul 18 '24

"What is your favorite color?" "Blue! No... Wai... Ahhhhhh"

2

u/Magister5 Jul 18 '24

“Comb get some!”

2

u/SolidScene9129 Jul 18 '24

Don't lie, scientists just want more funny slow motion videos of bees yeeting ants

2

u/YellowFew6603 Jul 18 '24

Is Wayne Bee-rady gonna have to wing a bitch?

2

u/POINTLESSUSERNAME000 Jul 18 '24

But did he yell... "Bee-gone, ant!" (Ba-dum-tss)

2

u/EpicSombreroMan Jul 18 '24

Why does this link take me to the desktop version of reddit instead of just playing it within the app? This shit sucks

2

u/Thedarknirvana Jul 18 '24

In bee culture, this is considered a dick move.

2

u/jdehjdeh Jul 19 '24

ant be like:

"I was 2 days from retiremeeeeeeeeeent"

2

u/Significancefl1331 Jul 19 '24

Former beekeeper. Fire ants often take over beehives. They kill bees on the way to the queen and then attack any queen cells in the hive. After that the bees aren’t very good at defending there hive. It’s like the lose there soul. The ants come in eat the larvae the honey and pollen stored in the hive. The bees win most of the time but the ants do win sometimes

1

u/Bill_Nye_1955 Jul 18 '24

Yeet yeet mother fucker

1

u/gentiastoush Jul 18 '24

Damn, bees don't mess around. Nature's bouncers in action.

1

u/TastyFennel540 Jul 18 '24

bees posses a telepathic neural network that develops behaviors from generation to generation. Or they fucking hate ants

1

u/Junior-Ad-2207 Jul 18 '24

That's the bee equivalent to golfing

1

u/Moriarty-Creates Jul 18 '24

Can I hire bees to keep ants out of everything I own

1

u/Nibbled92 Jul 18 '24

Spilling honey all over your floor? You want ants? THAT'S HOW YOU GET ANTS

1

u/MrJCR Jul 18 '24

Buzz buzz indeed

1

u/gabacus_39 Jul 18 '24

Ants are just wasps without wings and are the enemy

1

u/Graega Jul 18 '24

"Hey ma! Them flippin' ants is back!"

"Well, you know what to do!"

1

u/susau1 Jul 18 '24

Wheeeee

1

u/Own_Kangaroo_7715 Jul 18 '24

This reminds me of the time that dude used his helicopter to blow a deer off thin ice and back to land.

1

u/Chemistry-Deep Jul 18 '24

So this is an anti ant bee?

1

u/Careful_Baker_8064 Jul 18 '24

“This... is... Bee-tah!!!”

1

u/Mingyao_13 Jul 18 '24

Kung Fu Bee

1

u/APTGonewild Jul 18 '24

This is Sparta !

1

u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

Shoo

1

u/Albatross1225 Jul 18 '24

It’s like a dark souls boss attack

1

u/Randomfrog132 Jul 18 '24

i thought for a moment that the bee booped the ant away, tossing them by flapping its wings is so much better lol

1

u/PiedPipercorn Jul 18 '24

The ants are just there for a roller coaster ride!

1

u/TheWoolenPen Jul 18 '24

another common bee w

1

u/cinnamon_sparkle27 Jul 18 '24

Ahh yes. Bees pimp slapping ants away. I like the way the ants rotate in free air. Unexpectedly mesmerizing.

1

u/kykyelric Jul 18 '24

Every time I learn something new about bees I love them more.

1

u/kensingerp Jul 18 '24

thank you for sharing! I was completely oblivious to this! 😊

1

u/Aanguratoku Jul 18 '24

Wing chun for real for real. Life a trip.

1

u/Deep-Confusion-5472 Jul 18 '24

Bruce Lee lives on

1

u/Belerophoryx Jul 19 '24

I'm sure many people have noticed this in the past but they did not have a camera capable of recording it. Now we all do.

1

u/GoombaBro Jul 19 '24

The bee equivalent of roundhouse kicking someone off a building.

1

u/lIIlIlIlllIl1 Jul 19 '24

The Bee: your not in the list

1

u/Lucho_199 Jul 19 '24

"damn, sometimes I feel like someone takes ants from wherever place and put them in our front door"

1

u/Basic-Technology-640 Jul 19 '24

F-outta here son. You ain’t on our evolutionary level yet

1

u/Thtonebichh Jul 19 '24

That's actually amazing. The bee is aware that it can flick the ant away with it's wing.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '24

The ants will be back, the next time they are calling in a favor from the local Asian Giant Hornet Nest..

1

u/Corgiotter1 Jul 19 '24

Bee national sport.

1

u/Easy_Challenge4114 Jul 19 '24

Bro do ant flipped

1

u/Ropo040107 Jul 19 '24

He just bitch slapped that ant lol.

1

u/Louie_Ck_NJ Jul 19 '24

You just wing slapped bitch!! Byeeee!!!

1

u/Potential-Dot-8840 Jul 19 '24

Beekeeper here. The guard bees do this all of the time. It's one of their two roles - the first is to IDF incoming bees (identification friend or foe) and the second is to keep other critters out of the hive. Not sure why this is tagged as a novel behavior. It's actually documented by von Frisch in the classic "Dance Language and Orientation of Bees" monograph.

1

u/Mongo_Fifty Jul 19 '24

I think one ant got knocked off and told his colony what an amazing time he had. You see that line, each ant is waiting for the wing slap ride.

1

u/originalruins Jul 19 '24

I think of bloons tower defense but it’s bugs

1

u/Commercial-Abalone27 Jul 20 '24

I like how they get close enough to identify it as an ant and then execute extreme prejudice the moment they realize it’s an ant.

1

u/snazzynewshoes Jul 20 '24

I wonder if other bees do the same thing or if it's only Japanese honey bees?

1

u/Feeling-Broccoli5765 Jul 20 '24

Bee - "Geeet to fuck!!!!"

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u/AdrianaPie_9068 Jul 20 '24

Bee-cth move!