Just 1 example: "Diamond hands!" when Wall-street wasps tried to short-swarm Gamestop.
We can do it and succeed, even without much (or any) training. So what will happen when we start to channel our inner Spartacus. Just a matter of timing (and pressure) when we dare to notice their Gestapo and that the abuse, usury and stealing has been occurring (for a long time).
Too bad the local wasps have brainwashed half the hive to kill the other half, and paid off the drones, the guards, the queen, and own all the honeycomb.
Hornets are wasps by definition, while bees are biologically wasps, but not semantically. (Wasp is defined as hymenoptera which is neither ant nor bee).
These are Japanese honeybees, and they're the only domesticated bees that do this.
The center of the swarm can reach 46°C for as long as 30 minutes, and the oxygen quickly runs out. A lot of the bees will die during this defense, but they'll save the hive.
A single giant hornet can wipe out an entire hive of western honeybees because the bees' stingers can't punch through the hornets' exoskeleton, and they have no other defenses.
Right, which is why we dodged a goddamn bullet with these nasty fuckers! The wildlife government folks announced that no new examples of these hornets were captured last year and therefore presumed eradicated in the U.S.
Umm... depending on how much effort was put into that, it's not very promising. It's like saying 'no new cases of Covid' when a state is refusing to report any of them
Pretty much. Wasp dies from heat stroke and the honey bees drop the body to the ground. Only Japanese honey bees have learned to do this so it's not an innate skill to all honeybees.
The bees can withstand 1 degree of hotter temperature than the big assholes can, so they combine their bodies and vibrate to create this cleansing (but dangerous) temperature. Kinda cool how our bodies do the same thing via fever to try to kill an invader somewhere in the system.
Sadly fever doesn't do anything of consequence to the pathogens in the human body. Fever is counterproductive and causes dehydration and wastes energy that could be allocated to useful immunological processes.
Imagine you find a bunch of pancakes walking around so you start eating them and suddenly they're all climbing on you and covering you with their soft warm bodies and you start to overheat and you're trying to eat your way out but you can't eat them fast enough
TupacAintDead
This should be symbolic of billionaires and working class people.
GuyPilot
It's good to be part of a union
LazyBrownFox
This cooks the wasp.
crcinau
Dear CEOs.... wait....
gobby
Damn, it's like a union
Nanntuckett
Imagine if humans actually did this against their oppressors
jumajumajei
Just 1 example: "Diamond hands!" when Wall-street wasps tried to short-swarm Gamestop.
We can do it and succeed, even without much (or any) training.
So what will happen when we start to channel our inner Spartacus.
Just a matter of timing (and pressure) when we dare to notice their Gestapo and that the abuse, usury and stealing has been occurring (for a long time).
SoftKleenex
I imagine there's some friendly fire going on
NotACanadian
Our immune system cooks some of our own cells in the process too. Some of them may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
honda4wssi9
We are the bees. Prepare to be assimilated.
GreenJayBird
You let one bee stand up to us, then they ALL might stand up to us
KMSigma
It's this a union?
XorKaya
FAFO
ActuallyAPirate
I don't have a brutal gif
Nexus297
It takes like a million hit points to kill the wasp, but there IS a number.
Sypurist
If it can bleed it can die.
GuysJustWannaFish
Too bad the local wasps have brainwashed half the hive to kill the other half, and paid off the drones, the guards, the queen, and own all the honeycomb.
SamuelPenning
They hit Buddy!
FlemReid
"Bees Together Strong!"
OptimusPom
The Wasps are legislating the Bees act as an Act of Terror. Half of our Bees agree with the Wasps.
KoalaeiO
Ctrl+F "wasp": 15 results. Guys seriously, that's a hornet.
mbq7
Hornets are wasps by definition, while bees are biologically wasps, but not semantically. (Wasp is defined as hymenoptera which is neither ant nor bee).
iamlegendinjapan
Bees cook a few degrees higher than giant wasps do so this essentially cooks the wasp killing it and saving the colony
meme2theextreme
Unrelated, the working class outnumber billionaires 500,000 to 1.
DocNitro
Sous Vide Billionaire?
knotch2
Bee probably "get em Bois! And twerk until he dies of heat stroke"
FacelessAce
You know the Wasp is just thinking, "And THIS is why unions are destroying this country."
Kazpur81S
Time to cook!
PurpleFraggle
This is also how unions work.
ClutterMonkey
We are legion.
MemesAndDreams
We are bob
IamConfuzd
Love that series
DarthWaiterSE
I believe this is Mother Nature's (original) version of, "You came to the wrong hood, motherfucker."
ucandcantunc
A fitting analogy of the times.
FoxPesdassi
Not a wasp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
Fulustreka
The yellow rings tell us this is a wasp.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
Specifically a hornet, but hornets are technically wasps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet
FoxPesdassi
Noted, thanks!
tooomanystevesgotbanned
You're welcome. I love taxonomy.
tenbeershimself
They got the guns but we got the numbers
ongabonga
Can you not tell a hornet from a wasp?
Fulustreka
Yes, the wasp has yellow rings and the hornet has white.
foreverinchains
These are Japanese honeybees, and they're the only domesticated bees that do this.
The center of the swarm can reach 46°C for as long as 30 minutes, and the oxygen quickly runs out. A lot of the bees will die during this defense, but they'll save the hive.
A single giant hornet can wipe out an entire hive of western honeybees because the bees' stingers can't punch through the hornets' exoskeleton, and they have no other defenses.
kirmes
Bees need to team up with these
ruint
bumblebees use BJJ (Bee jiu-jitsu)
Source: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-stunned-by-bumblebees-ability-to-fight-off-invasive-asian-hornets/
Fulustreka
I love experts
foreverinchains
I'm no expert. I'm just an asshole with an internet connection and poor time management skills.
Fulustreka
Owwww 💋
LariCheltsy
discitus
That's how I know most of what I do
TheMindEntropic
A fellow rabbit-hole wanderer <3
VidaVita
For us Americans... 46 C is about the extra hot setting on the washing machine.
CrabbyBlueberry
Multiply by 2 and add 30. 120 F. No, it's not exact, but it's damn close.
tigriscantus
And 5 of those washing machines are the size of some traffic sinkholes
VidaVita
About half the size of your mom.
NKato
Right, which is why we dodged a goddamn bullet with these nasty fuckers! The wildlife government folks announced that no new examples of these hornets were captured last year and therefore presumed eradicated in the U.S.
TheWorldAccordingToAtlas
None have been found in the US since 2021.
mindstorm8191
Umm... depending on how much effort was put into that, it's not very promising. It's like saying 'no new cases of Covid' when a state is refusing to report any of them
Icommentandpostmypets
A lot of effort was. It was in Washington and recently declared eradicated.
https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-and-media-relations/news-releases?article=41658
NKato
@mindstorm8191, I live in Washington. And we were absolutely going ballistic chasing these fuckers down.
kimwimgoddess
Congratulations! Well done.
thrael
They vibrate their bodies and create heat to cook the wasp..
SirPumpUp
Thank you!
RocketKokket
That’s so fucking metal
Moonthatspellsmoon
Yep! It's called thermoballing! It's pretty much the only defense mechanism *Apis mellifera* has.
notblubber
Cooked? Wasp is back on the menu, boys.
xXCutieMomokoXx
exactly, just over what the wasp can handle and just under what they can handle. nature is wild
CloakedFigure
Get cooked idiot
NikoTT
I've always wanted to know how much heat the bees can produce? And in what time does it kill the wasp?
LariCheltsy
He broke his toe there. That scream was real.
penut61
Yes. But what about second reference?
LariCheltsy
Fulustreka
Cook...? 🤨
stickywiggit
Pretty much. Wasp dies from heat stroke and the honey bees drop the body to the ground. Only Japanese honey bees have learned to do this so it's not an innate skill to all honeybees.
Djkb6718
TheMindEntropic
The bees can withstand 1 degree of hotter temperature than the big assholes can, so they combine their bodies and vibrate to create this cleansing (but dangerous) temperature. Kinda cool how our bodies do the same thing via fever to try to kill an invader somewhere in the system.
finnbutnotthefishthing
Sadly fever doesn't do anything of consequence to the pathogens in the human body. Fever is counterproductive and causes dehydration and wastes energy that could be allocated to useful immunological processes.
Fulustreka
Wow, I didn't know that, gonna search the details on Google. Thanks for the explanation! 👍🏼
ChePollino
Some of the bees will still die from the heat doing this, but this is a sacrifice the hive is willing to make.
mudflap333
Has to make, if the wasp escapes and makes it back to its hive it will tell the rest where the beehive is and bye bye beehive!
IAmTheBadW01f
Imagine you find a bunch of pancakes walking around so you start eating them and suddenly they're all climbing on you and covering you with their soft warm bodies and you start to overheat and you're trying to eat your way out but you can't eat them fast enough
CanadianLadyMoose
What are you smoking, friend? 🤣
IAmTheBadW01f
Good pancakes are both soft and warm, making them ideal blankets that you can eat for breakfast!
relsky
This is how I want to die please. Thank you.
BeaverOnFire
vote4brownie
Best analogy.
SteveTheEgg
This is one of the many reasons why I prefer waffles.
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
The blue ones, right?
TheCobb1
CitizenPrime
This kills the wasp
TheCobb1
Oh no! I hope he’s ok!
(No I don’t. Fuck wasps. I’ve yet to see any justifiable reason for them to exist.)