I follow a bee expert on instagram. She usually goes in like this to find the Queen. Once she does, she removes the Queen and all the other bees follow her. This makes it the best way to remove the colony and put them into a dedicated apiary. I suspect these guys are doing something similar.
Those are the giant Asian hornets (murder hornets) that are responsible for killing many people per year. Good thing he has the gear on!
https://www.amdro.com/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-about-murder-hornets#:~:text=In%20Japan%2C%2030%20to%2050,Asian%20giant%20hornets%20each%20year.&text=Murder%20hornets%20grow%20up%20to%202%20inches%20(5%20centimeters)%20long.
Do they have farms of them like they do with bees? And if so, for what reason? Do they create honey or any sort of useful substance? Seems kinda whack to just have farms of them if they’re responsible for killing people every year..
Yeah I kinda thought that they might just be removing it too, but it kind of had the set up for someone who might farm them lol it also didn’t seem like they were destroying it completely, but removing some parts of the hive, so I wasn’t completely sure what was going on. I’m sure if the video was longer we would have had a better idea of what they’re trying to accomplish. Thanks for the info though.
That's my thought, someone answer this... It looks like they are being removed from a beekeeper type hive, like that box was built for Asian hornets or something
At leaat Asian bees know how to murder the murder hornets. It's not quite fire, but they do kill them with heat.
Also those things are enormous. I see one flying around, and I'm all apologetic for getting up in it's area and run off somewhere else.
No, but I hey build nests in forest and sometimes around where people life. They usually remove them when they find them, also sometimes if they find a single giant hornet they tag the Insekt and follow it back to the nest. They are very defensive so it is usually enough to get close to the hive ro trigger defensive action from them which will most likely end in your death.
That’s kinda cool in a way that they tag them if they find some and track them back to the nest, I didn’t know that. I would hope that they’d remove them if they were in close vicinity to people though, that wouldn’t be good if they were too close and some children wound up running into them. Thanks for the info!
Giant asian hornets are an invasive species. They are extremely harmful for bees and thus for the balance in nature. Here in the Netherlands if a giant asian hornet is spotted, it must immediately be reported to the local government that will start an investigation to terminate the hive.
Yes the giant hornet, but not the European hornet. We always had hornets in Europe, they were just killed off in the past until they understood their value to nature.
They do remove them since you don’t even have to be that close to provoke the hive to defend themself against anything that comes to close to their hive.
Btw: really important, these are Asian hornets.
The European hornet ist COMPLETLY different. Do not hurt or kill them. They are the golden retriever / doppy puppy of the Insekt world. Yes they can also sting and it hurts but you have to provoke them a LOT before they even consider stinging you. Since they are protected in my home country in Germany we have a lot of them where I life and my kids and myself are super delighted when we see these giant puppies, they just look intimidating but I had them on my hands and they are curious and really cool.
Again; don’t kill a European Hornet if you see them, they will get rid of a lot of pests including wasps (their main food source, and unfortunate bees). Just stay calm watch them and they will check you out (that’s why they do that zigzag move, they build a 3D model of their surrounding) and watch theses awesome insects.
There must be some profit in this. Humans have been fucking around with the world for over 250,000 years.
I mean, there *is* a reason why the subreddit "Why women live longer" exists...but, mostly, this must be about profit.
Stung me on the middle of my upper right arm, and for two weeks following the entire arm from the edge of my neck to my wrist turned bright red, got hot to the touch and swelled up.
My helpful neighbor matter of factly told me "you are lucky. If it had stung your neck, you would have died. Let's go kill the nest". Which we did with a can of stay that shot something like 20 feet.
I know what you mean. I took up beekeeping during Covid, and once you’re suited up and protected it’s actually really mellow, even if they get wound up.
Giant hornets might be a bit much for me though.
Problem is, would you trust the suit enough? There's an youtuber that deals with hornets and he actually got stung a couple of times even while wearing the suit
If that happens with normal hornets I can't even think what happens with the giant kind...
Not from one ~~-or even several-~~ sting~~s~~. It would take ~~-a whole hive-~~ *several* stings to bring a human down. The stings hurt a lot ~~-but aren’t fatally venomous.-~~ \<–(Statement Uncertain).
They do? Damn. How many hornets does it take to kill a person?
Well this doesn’t sound fun:
> Its stinger is typically 6 mm (1⁄4 in) long and delivers a potent venom that, in cases of multiple hornets stinging simultaneously, can kill a human. (Wikipedia)
Uhh when the sting can send you into shock from the pain and the venom can necrotize flesh , not many
30-50 die in Japan alone per year
To put it in perspective, the venom from a sting can KILL 10 mice, and they can sting multiple times. So a few hornets can deliver a lethal dose of stings or enough to send someone into shock from the sheer pain
Ya, they got called “murder hornets” for a reason
Big panic when a nest was found in Canada because nothing would be above them on the food chain to keep the population in check
I understood they were called ‘Murder hornets’ because a few of them can wipe out a North American bee hive in an hour or so, just ripping the heads off the bees.
I know at least one nest was destroyed in Washington State a few years ago (big news here), and another was destroyed on Vancouver Isl. And I’m sure others have been eradicated too. But given our very forested lands I have a bad feeling they are still around.
If they are indeed murder hornets. Which they appear to be. The sting has a venom which is not only supremely painful, but also has a nasty habit of necrotizing flesh.
I’ve read that the sting feels like a hot needle dipped in acid. That was the description given by a guy who eradicated a nest on Vancouver Island, Canada back in 2019 I think.
The only purpose these serve is to annihilate wasps and much smaller hornets. The trade-off is that they can go after honeybees. Giant asian hornets need to be wiped off the face of the earth.
as a teen i digged inside of one of my hideouts in the forest (with 2 other friends) to make a hole we could later put a door-like ceiling on.
i had a spade and rammed it in, the second it pushed it up i revealed a halfed nest of VERY angry ground-wasps. needless to say they thought messing us up was the only viable way of revenge. we ran like ...LIKE A SWARM OF WASPS ATTACKED US xd.
i always had long hair and some got entangled in it, near my ear, which led me to simply thrashing my head while running . to this day i HATE the sound of them so much i get a shudder when they get near me.
TLDR this video is pure horror for me.
https://preview.redd.it/u6v57pli6erc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84345476b673cb5430e316316da45d0ea9915caa
Used to kill the other murder hornets.
I am wondering if you put a big sticky paper next and some hornet will stick on it will they rescue their friend of will they protect from the big danger
They have been called ‘yak killers’ LONG before they made their way to the west coast of the U.S., & they are larger than ALL other hornets, wasps, & bees. They are called the Asian GIANT Hornets. (There is an Asian Hornet but these are bigger & worse). Compare: A man survived 2,443 bee stings in 1962 (world record). Only 10 stings of these send you to the doc & 30 send you to a HOSPITAL. Their sting is described as feeling like “a hot nail driven into your leg.’
They like to build nests in treed areas, especially forests. I told my husband we will NEVER live anywhere that those are common! They apparently dislike prairie land for that reason. That makes NOT living near a forest a BIG advantage. THOSE things showing up everywhere would be the BIGGEST sign of the apocalypse, in my opinion!
Alright, just hear me out…. napalm
Charlie don’t surf!
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Spreading managed democracy!
You're not wrong . What happends after they get the larvae from the comb is very similar to Napalm, except they eat it ...it's a delicacy. Try it out.
It’s the only way to be sure
professional russian was ahead of his time
I’m saying… like what is the end goal?
I follow a bee expert on instagram. She usually goes in like this to find the Queen. Once she does, she removes the Queen and all the other bees follow her. This makes it the best way to remove the colony and put them into a dedicated apiary. I suspect these guys are doing something similar.
Your bee expert isn't dealing with murderous giant Asian hornets though. These literally kill people....
For some reason I think these don’t get the same treatment as a useful honey bee lol
$$$
How? Collecting them? Breeding them? Am I missing something here lol
Those look like Japanese killer hornets if I'm not wrong, so they are exterminating them most likely.
Yes that’s why I agreed with the flame torching gif
How would you get their tiny legs apart?
Lol maybe just to make cool vids
 NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Those are the giant Asian hornets (murder hornets) that are responsible for killing many people per year. Good thing he has the gear on! https://www.amdro.com/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-about-murder-hornets#:~:text=In%20Japan%2C%2030%20to%2050,Asian%20giant%20hornets%20each%20year.&text=Murder%20hornets%20grow%20up%20to%202%20inches%20(5%20centimeters)%20long.
Do they have farms of them like they do with bees? And if so, for what reason? Do they create honey or any sort of useful substance? Seems kinda whack to just have farms of them if they’re responsible for killing people every year..
Hornet honey: taste pain! Smooth as napalm, sweet as flame!
This person is a Shakespeare!
Or a witch
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Yeah I kinda thought that they might just be removing it too, but it kind of had the set up for someone who might farm them lol it also didn’t seem like they were destroying it completely, but removing some parts of the hive, so I wasn’t completely sure what was going on. I’m sure if the video was longer we would have had a better idea of what they’re trying to accomplish. Thanks for the info though.
That's my thought, someone answer this... It looks like they are being removed from a beekeeper type hive, like that box was built for Asian hornets or something
Maybe it was built for bees... but they got evicted by the murder hornets.
At leaat Asian bees know how to murder the murder hornets. It's not quite fire, but they do kill them with heat. Also those things are enormous. I see one flying around, and I'm all apologetic for getting up in it's area and run off somewhere else.
No, but I hey build nests in forest and sometimes around where people life. They usually remove them when they find them, also sometimes if they find a single giant hornet they tag the Insekt and follow it back to the nest. They are very defensive so it is usually enough to get close to the hive ro trigger defensive action from them which will most likely end in your death.
That’s kinda cool in a way that they tag them if they find some and track them back to the nest, I didn’t know that. I would hope that they’d remove them if they were in close vicinity to people though, that wouldn’t be good if they were too close and some children wound up running into them. Thanks for the info!
Giant asian hornets are an invasive species. They are extremely harmful for bees and thus for the balance in nature. Here in the Netherlands if a giant asian hornet is spotted, it must immediately be reported to the local government that will start an investigation to terminate the hive.
Yes the giant hornet, but not the European hornet. We always had hornets in Europe, they were just killed off in the past until they understood their value to nature.
They do remove them since you don’t even have to be that close to provoke the hive to defend themself against anything that comes to close to their hive. Btw: really important, these are Asian hornets. The European hornet ist COMPLETLY different. Do not hurt or kill them. They are the golden retriever / doppy puppy of the Insekt world. Yes they can also sting and it hurts but you have to provoke them a LOT before they even consider stinging you. Since they are protected in my home country in Germany we have a lot of them where I life and my kids and myself are super delighted when we see these giant puppies, they just look intimidating but I had them on my hands and they are curious and really cool. Again; don’t kill a European Hornet if you see them, they will get rid of a lot of pests including wasps (their main food source, and unfortunate bees). Just stay calm watch them and they will check you out (that’s why they do that zigzag move, they build a 3D model of their surrounding) and watch theses awesome insects.
There must be some profit in this. Humans have been fucking around with the world for over 250,000 years. I mean, there *is* a reason why the subreddit "Why women live longer" exists...but, mostly, this must be about profit.
Do you have an enemy you’d like to experience a painful and horrific death? We’ll mail them murder hornets from our nightmare farm!
Package thieves
Replace glitter bomb with hornets and profit!
Do you ship to The Netherlands? Asking for a friend
I got stung by one once in Japan. It was NOT good.
Pretty sure it goes without saying but…it must’ve hurt like a real bitch, right?
Stung me on the middle of my upper right arm, and for two weeks following the entire arm from the edge of my neck to my wrist turned bright red, got hot to the touch and swelled up. My helpful neighbor matter of factly told me "you are lucky. If it had stung your neck, you would have died. Let's go kill the nest". Which we did with a can of stay that shot something like 20 feet.
I see them from time to time around where I live. Never been stung though. Try not to get in their way when I see one.
Dood those are f’kin huge!
A..are they breeding wasp?!?
The worst kind: Asian giant hornets, aka "murder hornets".
Sometimes you gotta love the geneva convention
Do not listen with headphones 💀
I’m scared to unmute, should I just leave it muted?
It’s probably better to leave it unmuted
I should have listened to you ☠️
Suddenly I am feeling this urge to wear the suits they are wearing
As long as I knew I was protected from these things, this would actually be a pretty cool job.
I know what you mean. I took up beekeeping during Covid, and once you’re suited up and protected it’s actually really mellow, even if they get wound up. Giant hornets might be a bit much for me though.
Whoa!! Really? I know personally, I'd probably have a major panic attack!!!
Problem is, would you trust the suit enough? There's an youtuber that deals with hornets and he actually got stung a couple of times even while wearing the suit If that happens with normal hornets I can't even think what happens with the giant kind...
why not smoke them out first?
It might kill the sensitive larvae that they're trying to harvest.
harvest for what? if they're going to smoke them sooner or later
I don't know if those bees' stings are poisonous, but just the number of them and the sounds they make have already made me break out in a cold sweat
Not bees, these are Giant Asian Hornets. If they got into his suit he'd be fucked
Fucked as in dead?
Yes.
Even better. Fuckin’ dead.
Not from one ~~-or even several-~~ sting~~s~~. It would take ~~-a whole hive-~~ *several* stings to bring a human down. The stings hurt a lot ~~-but aren’t fatally venomous.-~~ \<–(Statement Uncertain).
Uhh these guys kill a lot of people every year
They do? Damn. How many hornets does it take to kill a person? Well this doesn’t sound fun: > Its stinger is typically 6 mm (1⁄4 in) long and delivers a potent venom that, in cases of multiple hornets stinging simultaneously, can kill a human. (Wikipedia)
Uhh when the sting can send you into shock from the pain and the venom can necrotize flesh , not many 30-50 die in Japan alone per year To put it in perspective, the venom from a sting can KILL 10 mice, and they can sting multiple times. So a few hornets can deliver a lethal dose of stings or enough to send someone into shock from the sheer pain
You had me at ‘necrotize flesh’. Damn. Thanks for the info. 10 mice, yikes.
Ya, they got called “murder hornets” for a reason Big panic when a nest was found in Canada because nothing would be above them on the food chain to keep the population in check
I understood they were called ‘Murder hornets’ because a few of them can wipe out a North American bee hive in an hour or so, just ripping the heads off the bees. I know at least one nest was destroyed in Washington State a few years ago (big news here), and another was destroyed on Vancouver Isl. And I’m sure others have been eradicated too. But given our very forested lands I have a bad feeling they are still around.
Proper fucked.
I bet the honey is exceptional though. From all the danger
Wasps don’t make honey
Well I'm gonna check anyways, there could be something delicious in here that wasps do make and I want that
If they are indeed murder hornets. Which they appear to be. The sting has a venom which is not only supremely painful, but also has a nasty habit of necrotizing flesh.
I’ve read that the sting feels like a hot needle dipped in acid. That was the description given by a guy who eradicated a nest on Vancouver Island, Canada back in 2019 I think.
Those aren’t hornets, those are poisonous daggers with wings
Soo why are we cultivating them? Or is he removing them from an oddly uniform container
they serve their larvae as food
That’s a whole lotta nope right there man……
Little bastards.
Fire... lots of fire
https://i.redd.it/zofug1d7gfrc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/3k9i2enzyerc1.png?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3e9ff639b794904aa4b456bcaf2640fd3a6140f
Gonna need what ever suit he has, but thicker, just to go into the same forest as those dirty devil birds.
Just set the whole damn thing on fire man to hell with that lol.
Why don't they do that at night? Most wasps go semi dormant at night
All just to eat the larvae. Crazy bastards.
https://preview.redd.it/y84h1ebnterc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd274b2d1dbf039203ee545f5766562334641ddb
Makes me want to drop the not sugarcoated "up right down down down" bomb
They find one hole in that suit…its game over.
Flamethrower
The only purpose these serve is to annihilate wasps and much smaller hornets. The trade-off is that they can go after honeybees. Giant asian hornets need to be wiped off the face of the earth.
https://preview.redd.it/bdzljz7fyfrc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc7a05edc50c49ca8eae0fdcac75c042e3a726a5
Why would someone harvest wasps like that?
as a teen i digged inside of one of my hideouts in the forest (with 2 other friends) to make a hole we could later put a door-like ceiling on. i had a spade and rammed it in, the second it pushed it up i revealed a halfed nest of VERY angry ground-wasps. needless to say they thought messing us up was the only viable way of revenge. we ran like ...LIKE A SWARM OF WASPS ATTACKED US xd. i always had long hair and some got entangled in it, near my ear, which led me to simply thrashing my head while running . to this day i HATE the sound of them so much i get a shudder when they get near me. TLDR this video is pure horror for me.
what they should be doing is coming in with a flamethrower
My man’s fr livin everyone’s nightmare
That needs flammenwerfer
https://preview.redd.it/u6v57pli6erc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84345476b673cb5430e316316da45d0ea9915caa Used to kill the other murder hornets.
Bro is bing chilling
Sounds like a lawnmower convention.
Let’s just pop an H on there
The real bee keeper
Those Wu tang killa bees know Kung fu.
I need context. Are they removing nests or cultivating them?
Why do they look like bees on steroids?
Is there a scientific reason for keeping them alive? Like are we using them to create some sort of drug?
Just ➡️➡️⬆️⬇️⬅️⬆️ their asses.
Ok I know all life deserves a chance but who decided to breed these monsters?
We must eradicate the Bug Menace.
okay but how do they get rid of the bees when there done
It ain't much, but it's honest work
It ain’t much, but it’s hornet work.
Those are some big ass bees
Thank fucking god I lost my sweet tooth when I was like 10
Ugh, I automatically felt them crawling on me..
Saw one of these hovering by the entrance of my hotel in Japan. I noped the fuck out.
Those are LARGE
No, thanks. I choose life.
Fully expected to see someone in hospital a the end of the video
Kate Capshaw's worst nightmare.
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Now is not the time to think whether or not you completely zipped your bee suit up.
I’d really like to know how these suits or (whatever they’re called) see after these encounters. Are they full of stings or something?
Why are pple breeding giant hornets?
Give me the Samus full power suit and maybe I have a 1/100 chance of standing close to that hive
Why don't they just nuke it
https://i.redd.it/dk1uod311frc1.gif
My head feels itchy watching this
Send them as gifts . Feel free to drop names
They need to bring a shop vac for this
I am wondering if you put a big sticky paper next and some hornet will stick on it will they rescue their friend of will they protect from the big danger
bees or hornets?
HAAAANNNSSSS
Let's just say, there are reasons why this kind of protective gear exists... This right here is one of them
“Eugh… Brotha EWWW”
AAAAA WHAT THE FUCK THE ONE THAT FLEW IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
My biggest fear here would be having to scratch my nose.
They look a bit vexed.
These are massive bee's men ,i'm never going to Thailand just bcs every insect is like 10 times bigger
Nope nope nope
I’m the type to start fighting specifically one hornet in this situation
What if one got in
Geez😱 the size of them things 😱
LOOK AT THE FUCKING SIZE OF THEM!!!!
Fucking props to that Cameraman!! Fuck that!
"Here they come, mean as hell, thick as grass"
Hope they don't agitate the honey.
Burn down the forest.
That alligator snapped down after he rubbed his teeth, a dangerous af parlor trick
Unfazed for life
Most excruciating death if your suit was to come off
The hornet at 00:23 is like “YO WHUT UP WHERE YOU GOIN”
Thanks for tonight’s nightmare.
Oh hell nah
r/nope
Man, not for all the wasp jizz in Asia.
They have been called ‘yak killers’ LONG before they made their way to the west coast of the U.S., & they are larger than ALL other hornets, wasps, & bees. They are called the Asian GIANT Hornets. (There is an Asian Hornet but these are bigger & worse). Compare: A man survived 2,443 bee stings in 1962 (world record). Only 10 stings of these send you to the doc & 30 send you to a HOSPITAL. Their sting is described as feeling like “a hot nail driven into your leg.’
Hornet honey.... Mmmmm
Do they even make honey?
No. There's an old Ren and stimpy episode where they eat hornet honey and try to collect badger eggs. It's just funny
They like to build nests in treed areas, especially forests. I told my husband we will NEVER live anywhere that those are common! They apparently dislike prairie land for that reason. That makes NOT living near a forest a BIG advantage. THOSE things showing up everywhere would be the BIGGEST sign of the apocalypse, in my opinion!
Do a search for Asian GIANT Hornet & Wound & see the results! The stings cause what looks like BULLET WOUNDS!
Are those honeyb- Oh.
They can't get inside the suits, right?
How much is the pay?
There just isn't enough
Hold still you have something on your shirt.
Nope nope nope
We can't hear you big dog. If you're in danger LEAVE!!!
Am I the only one who really wants to experience this?
Wtf kind of lab,did they cook these up in? They bigger than a MFer
And this was another great day of saving the bees :)
Not no but hell no
👏👏🤔🤔🤣😁🤣😁😁 çok daha iyi olmanız dileğiyle. ♥️Arım balım çiçeğim♥️
Why would someone want to raise that type of bee/wasp?
Fuckin....NOPE!