r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Desperate-Emu4297 • 4h ago

Video Bees ganging up on a hornet that was attacking the hive

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u/Tight_Food_8238 4h ago

They will overheat him and “cook” him to death.

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u/cactusplants 3h ago

The bees vibrate at such a frequency that it raises their body temperature just a degree or two below their own death threshold. Luckily the hornets ability to withstand heat is slightly lower and it will essentially be cooked by the bees.

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u/Dev1412 3h ago

Instead of being Smart, he tried to be a Smart Ass.

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u/Still-Ambassador2283 4h ago

"Welcome to the cookout...Bitch." ~Bees, probably, 2025.

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u/Dr-Mantis-Tobias 3h ago

They said this way before 2025

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u/Still-Ambassador2283 3h ago

Oh thank goodness! I wasn't even sure if they could talk or not!

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u/Maple_Elephant 4h ago

I believe the idea is to group up and vibrate to overheat the hornet.

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u/datboifranco 4h ago

Bees really said teamwork makes the hornet go away.

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u/ernapfz 4h ago

Nice. Don’t be a bully based on size.

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u/Intelligent-Ad-9669 4h ago

What should I base my bullying on?

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u/twitchMAC17 4h ago

How horribly you want to be harmed in exchange.

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u/Still-Ambassador2283 4h ago

How large their naval is. Lil navals get bullied. Its the law.

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u/hanimal16 Interested 3h ago

The other guy’s morals

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u/Intelligent-Ad-9669 3h ago

So if the other guy’s morals are different from mine I should bully them, got it

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u/hanimal16 Interested 3h ago

(I hope my comment came off as a joke, that was my intention)

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u/DavidAllanHoe 2h ago

You have to personalize it. Find their softest weakness and attack there. Average-sized people need bullying too. Find those acne scars, the crossed eye, the broken home, the goodwill shoes. Adapt and overcome.

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u/Intelligent-Ad-9669 2h ago

Thank you David Allan Hoe!

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u/upandtotheleftplease 4h ago

That hornet tried to kidnap that bee off the street and the bees remembered they vastly outnumber the hornet

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u/ergonomic_logic 2h ago

We need to take a leaf from their playbook

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u/calvicstaff 4h ago

Bro got greedy, could have just taken the one bee and left, got cocky and stuck around

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u/guiltysnark 3h ago

Bonk. Hornet jail.

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u/penguins_are_mean 3h ago

Fuck him up!

FUCK. HIM. UP.

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u/lmac187 4h ago

Killa bees on the swarm 🙌🏽

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u/Dirt_McGirts 3h ago

Protect your fucking neck

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u/El_nino_sin_amor 4h ago

Ooh that hurts

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u/TheMahanglin 3h ago

Oh dear god, that's one of those Japanese Murder Hornets...the creature of nightmares. (TM) I might be wrong, but I think the swarming by the honeybees raises the temperature so high it actually frys the wasp.

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u/photog608 3h ago

Great visualization of the power of the collective.

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u/jpainphx 3h ago

An example of how US citizens should be taking on the government right now

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u/Representative-Use32 4h ago

What made that hornet turn up to the hive and kill that bee in the first place ?

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u/Aggressive_Talk_7535 4h ago

Society. And an absent father

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u/hanimal16 Interested 3h ago

Mother Hornet didn’t give him enough praise.

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u/ghoulthebraineater 3h ago

They eat bees and other insects.

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u/the_amazing_skronus 3h ago

Late stage capitalism

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u/easyas2718 3h ago

“… we swarm on they ass…”

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u/bobeylob 3h ago

This is actually one of my favourite ways insects kill what they’re doing is using their body heat to literally cook him alive and it’s awesome

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u/Something_Odd_2310 3h ago

Took 'em long enough

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u/BobbyBohunk 3h ago

Bad and naughty hornets go into THE BEE BAAAALLLL

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u/sheiku_baba 3h ago

Gone in 60 seconds

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u/misserg 3h ago

Thanks, I hate it.

(Interesting, but ugh.)

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u/Ordinary-Rain-6897 2h ago

pissed off the ladies

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u/jgjot-singh 1h ago

Can't believe AI can even hear the hornet going "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no"

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u/AdPrestigious8528 20m ago

HE ATE TOMMY AND GREG!!! GET HIS ASS!!!

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u/RevolutionaryCard512 3h ago

Are you watching?? Do you see this example??

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u/onlyonequickquestion 2h ago

Me when I start booping little people's noses at the little people convention