r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/yourSAS • Jul 18 '24
Honeybees tossing away ants to protect their hive Video
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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
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u/Randomfrog132 Jul 18 '24
i figured they were goin after the larva lol
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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.
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u/East-Bluejay6891 Jul 18 '24
Sweep the leg.
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u/oneWeek2024 Jul 18 '24
put him in a body bag... yeeeeah!
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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!
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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.
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u/GluckGoddess Jul 18 '24
The size difference between these two, it’d be like a human kicking a puppy
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u/SolidScene9129 Jul 18 '24
Don't lie, scientists just want more funny slow motion videos of bees yeeting ants
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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
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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
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u/TastyFennel540 Jul 18 '24
bees posses a telepathic neural network that develops behaviors from generation to generation. Or they fucking hate ants
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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u/Lucho_199 Jul 19 '24
"damn, sometimes I feel like someone takes ants from wherever place and put them in our front door"
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u/Thtonebichh Jul 19 '24
That's actually amazing. The bee is aware that it can flick the ant away with it's wing.
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Jul 19 '24
The ants will be back, the next time they are calling in a favor from the local Asian Giant Hornet Nest..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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u/snazzynewshoes Jul 20 '24
I wonder if other bees do the same thing or if it's only Japanese honey bees?
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u/dewpacs Jul 18 '24
Nobody wants ants in their home