Spoiler alert! The next episode where I talk about how stingers evolved doesn't come out until next month, but here's an article for those who can't wait: www.statedclearly.com/articles/evidence-for-evolution-in-your-own-backyard/
@@BierBart12 Some bees other than japanese do "try" to do this, but doesn't achieve a temperature able to "cook" a hornet, nor wasps It's incredibly specific, it just reaches enough to kill it, it's not by a huge margin, and it thus takes a bit of time to work
I am a biology teacher and backyard beekeeper. I have been imaging stingers with a light microscope to show how wonderful they are. This description has added so much more richness. What wonder our world has for us to discover. Thank you for leading us deeper.
My grandpa was a beekeper and a teacher. When i was a little kid, although my grandpa died, we still had 5 bee hives in our garden, so i was really lucky to accompany my dad and grandma when they tended the bees. It was amazing to watch them (bees) and learn. To this day i find them amazing and i'm always happy to see more information especially this quality. And finding exactly the same thing my dad tought me - bees are usually peaceful. They don't like to give their lives in vain. So if you don't bother them, they will not bother you. Oh, a small exeption... when they are about to swarm, they are not so merciful. Once i had that unpleasant meeting with them, when i wanted to show my cousin how they bring pollen to the hive... And we went back home running and screaming, each with a few of their stingers in our backs 🤭 There is however one information of a bee stinger that i was tought and i didn't see it in this movie. Those barbs react to temperature. They "open up" when they enter a warm blooded creature (especially those with a taste for that sweet honey). So that stinger is much more likely to be left under a skin of someone like human or a bear.
Bees are the reason why we have the majority of food that we do. It’s amazing that tiny creatures seeming insignificant are so important to our survival. That’s the case with the whole ecosystem but bees are especially awesome.
It was stock footage I bought from the professor, so the bee died for someone else's video long before, but I did re-buy it, so I suppose I'm guilty of supporting the death of the bee.
This video randomly reminded me of a nature program I watched a few years ago. A Bee colony was under attack by giant wasps, and it wasn't going well for the bees, until the wasps started entering the hive. At that point the bees covered the invading wasps and then literally cooked them to death, by generating a massive amount of heat through vibration. EDIT Not Wasps, Giant Hornets
I have seen a video like this, too. I also remember they used infra red filming to show the heat cooking the hornets. Commentary mentioned how it was such a fine measurement between killing the hornet but not the bees.
Excellent presentation, it's incredible how complex the mechanism behind a simple bee sting is. Thank you for your work Jon, you have earned my support!
Doesn't your protective equipment stop stings? Also, when a bee stings your ppe, do their stingers get stuck in the fabric? I know that traditional bee keeping kills SOME bees every time you pull out racks, but how many typically die? I'm interested in beekeeping myself. Looking at going with the flo-hive or something like it. I love these insects and could spend hours watching them do their thing.
@@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful I don't wear gloves. I handle frames better that way. I also don't react much to stings, so it doesn't bother me much. It actually helps with arthritis in hands and wrists
I was amazed at how easily I understood the concept and mechanisms of the stinger with the animated diagram and colour-coded electron-microscope photo. I wondered briefly why we don’t see more of it around, then I realised that it must take forever to make. But I guess once it is made it can teach people forever… thanks for making such an important teaching tool
Honey bees can free themselves in about 30 seconds to one minute if ppl don’t swat at them and don’t make them want to leave - if one moves or swats at them, they will fly off and the stinger will be stuck, and they will páss because of it, so if one gets stung, one should just wait and not move until the bee frees herself without losing the stinger!
I love how much the connections between the seperate parts of the stinger resemble common solutions used in things we assemble ourselves to keep moving parts together. I have to wonder if we were inspired by, or just happened to come to the same solutions nature did?
I can't agree more! I did a presentation on a topic known as bio-mimicry in school, and learned so much from it! Everything from improving wind-energy from studying whale fins to gathering more water in arid regions from the Namibian Fog Basking beetles just fascinated me! We have so much to learn from nature; she's had a few millennia head start on us 😂
Some of the things in engineering are actually just copied from nature. Its called Biomimicry. I watched a video about it on how they used it on making Trains a bit quieter.
What an amazing piece of bio-mechanical engineering. It even has a tongue n groove setup to act as a seal and a guide. FASCINATING! Edit: Yes, you should be proud. These are the best animations to clearly show how the stinger works that I have ever seen... subscribed.
Yes "mel" is latin for honey but actually the word "melissa" is Greek for honeybee and the word "meli" was used as far back as ancient Greece meaning "honey". Hope this was informative and helpful. Great work on this video!
@@ayman8423 I understand that you don't believe in evolution and that you may even feel sorry for me because I do. However, I want to respectfully share my perspective on this topic. For me, evolution is a beautiful and amazing way of looking at the world. It helps me understand the diversity of life and how it has changed and adapted over time. The scientific theories and evidence behind evolution are fascinating and have expanded my knowledge of the world around me. Furthermore, the evidence for evolution is simply overwhelming. From the fossil record to genetic studies, the evidence supports the idea that organisms change and adapt over time. This isn't just a theory, but rather a scientific consensus that has been supported by a vast amount of evidence. I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I believe in evolution. Instead, I encourage you to explore the evidence and consider the amazing insights that evolution can provide.
This has to be one of the most under valued videos on YT. It is great for all ages; educational with great narration & color. Perfect tempo and time for careful study AND drifting off to sleep. Amazing
I always loved bees and they are one of few insect (or insect-like) species along with European ladybugs and small spiders which I allow even to crawl on my hand. Just don't make sudden moves, don't swat them, don't poke their hive with anything and you should be totally fine for them unless there is a history. Funny that even with their short lifespan, subsequent generations seem to remember past transgressions somehow.
wouldn't almost all evolutionary traits qualify as exaptations? it's always building on something that was there before but didn't have the function it now does?
I could not be prouder to have such an incredibly brilliant brother. This explanation is so cool and makes perfect sense once it’s broken down like this. Your ability to explain in easy to digest bits is a gift very few possess.
It's fascinating to see evolution do such wonderful bits of engineering. Sure, it may have poor grip on overall architecture and some implementation details, but it sure does sometimes create some wonderful solutions to the fitness function.
In 2nd grade, during PE, a bee would always come over and land on me. It was my bee friend. I just assumed it was the same bee every time, since it was so consistent
Man, you are an inspiration, im a PhD student in Immunology, But if I were doing my PhD in Zoology or similar field, I would be gladly recommending your videos for my students
If you are allergic to the bee's venom, it's not the venom that kills you, but the reaction that your body has to it. In an effort to defend the body from the bee's venom, the body starts to swell. If you are allergic this swelling will be much more generalized across the body. You will die when you're neck muscles swell and choke you. So you will die from mechanical asphyxiation and not from the venom itself This is not one of the venom's effects but rather a reaction from body so you will not die directly from the poison of one bee, but you can die from the toxicity of the bee's venem if you are stung multiple times.
My word. Watching the video from beginning to end, this is the most comprehensive and concise explanation of how a female honey bee's stinger works. The author understands the details without losing sight of the big picture. Great video.
I did a jungle trek in Laos and we had to pass under a bee nest hanging from a fallen tree. Being close to it didn't effect the bees at all. But for three of our group of eight people who got scared as soon as they had to cross underneath one bee attacked. It's like they feel you're scared. Everyone that was relaxed didn't get stung.
You do know that I've exception only strengthens the rule, right? There are over 20,000 known and much more unonown bee species on Earth. One of them is aggressive, yeah, big deal. It's like scrapping a whole production line in a factory because every 20000+th product has a slightly deformed but perfectly working packaging.
The fear of honeybees is absolutely warranted. I've been stung 5 separate times while walking in separate locations for literally no reason. No hive near by, not swinging at them, not even aware of their presence. Yes honey bees not wasps. The little fuckers hate me.
This is my first time finding your channel and I fell in love! The way you describe the content and take the care to create such detailed animations is top notch! I’m looking forward to future content and the pleasure of getting to view all your past videos now
Great video! When i was a young boy and bees were plentiful, I would study everything about them from behavior to anatomy. The stinger was always a subject of great interest. I would extract a stinger and observe it functioning under a magnifying glass and realized it had its own short life outside of the bee. One time I just barly made contact with a living stinger and noticed it crawling to full depth into my finger. This video confirmed the nature of my suspicions and taught me a few more thing i didnt know. Excellent job!
The bees stinger is made to protect there hive from insects where there stingers easily punchurs there armour but with mammals our thick skin gets the Stinger stuck and after they Sting us they have to make the ultimate sacrifice.. there life Fun-fact: the queen bees stinger is smooth allowing them to sting multiple times
0:55 It derives from μέλι the Greek word for honey, and the name of bees in Greek is μέλισσα. Also the word phobia comes from you guessed it, the Greek word φόβος which means fear. It literally means the "Fear of bees"
Melissophobia comes from greek Μέλισσα or melissa with english characters that translates to bee and phobia from φοβία that means fear. Just so you know the origin of the word
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TLDR: Bees deploy a short-lived organism that death-sentences the bee and whose sole purpose is to auto-double-chainsaw its way inside other beings, pumping pain-flavored venom in the process.
In my youth my father described to us children the action of a honey bee sting and the sting tearing out of the body of the bee causing its death. In my mind I imagined this with such clarity and compassion for the bee that I fainted, my mind went foggy and sickly and I lost consciousness. Waking up on the floor several minutes later. This happened again many times over the years, whenever I could not face something medical. Ultimately I undertook a nursing degree, in part to face this recurring issue, and solved it for myself. But I've never actually seen the honey bee process till now. Its even more impressive that my imagination 😮. Thank you. Oh yes. Nursing chewed me up and spat me out so this is seriously NOT about how 'wonderful' nursing is. But thats another story.
Amazing! but i'm still puzzled on why would they evolve the stinger in a way that it needs to detach and kill the bee, i mean i get it it keeps pumping venom for a good while but why, nobody has ever been stung by a wasp and though "hey at least it's not a honeybee!" is it because their venom is weaker and in turn less expensive to produce? maybe it's because the difference in diet between bees and wasps that make it possible for the latter to make a better venom? or maybe it's because it simply does not matter because in the big picture most bees won't get to use it since it exclusively for self defence as opposed to wasps that use it to hunt also... but evolutionarily speaking i think this would require the stinger to originally be barbed by default which clearly isn't the case since the original stinger is an ovipositor... ahhh i need answers!!!
Bee stings dont usually cost them their lives. Because of the characteristics of human skin, bee's barbs tend to get stuck in the skin, causing separation. The skin of other animals typically doesn't pose this issue and they will survive. Humans arr relatively hairless, so we have thick skin
I was attacked unprovoked by a bee this year, as i was normaly walking. First time it stinged me in the little finger, but i removed the sting immediatly and almost didn't felt pain. Second time, 6 month later, i managed to hit it when it was attacking me and killed it.
The craziest part is how this is a modified reproductive organ.
Spoiler alert! The next episode where I talk about how stingers evolved doesn't come out until next month, but here's an article for those who can't wait: www.statedclearly.com/articles/evidence-for-evolution-in-your-own-backyard/
@StatedClearly Looking forward to it! Your videos are always a treat, and I'm particularly excited for this one.
Convergent evolution with cats' barbed reproductive organs
@@BierBart12 Some bees other than japanese do "try" to do this, but doesn't achieve a temperature able to "cook" a hornet, nor wasps
It's incredibly specific, it just reaches enough to kill it, it's not by a huge margin, and it thus takes a bit of time to work
So they used to mate with a one use pokey pokey that rips out after breeding? Harsh one night stands.
I am a biology teacher and backyard beekeeper. I have been imaging stingers with a light microscope to show how wonderful they are. This description has added so much more richness. What wonder our world has for us to discover. Thank you for leading us deeper.
My grandpa was a beekeper and a teacher. When i was a little kid, although my grandpa died, we still had 5 bee hives in our garden, so i was really lucky to accompany my dad and grandma when they tended the bees. It was amazing to watch them (bees) and learn. To this day i find them amazing and i'm always happy to see more information especially this quality.
And finding exactly the same thing my dad tought me - bees are usually peaceful. They don't like to give their lives in vain. So if you don't bother them, they will not bother you. Oh, a small exeption... when they are about to swarm, they are not so merciful. Once i had that unpleasant meeting with them, when i wanted to show my cousin how they bring pollen to the hive... And we went back home running and screaming, each with a few of their stingers in our backs 🤭
There is however one information of a bee stinger that i was tought and i didn't see it in this movie. Those barbs react to temperature. They "open up" when they enter a warm blooded creature (especially those with a taste for that sweet honey). So that stinger is much more likely to be left under a skin of someone like human or a bear.
>how wonderful they are
You've got issues my dude.
Bees are the reason why we have the majority of food that we do. It’s amazing that tiny creatures seeming insignificant are so important to our survival. That’s the case with the whole ecosystem but bees are especially awesome.
This comment sort of rhymes. ❤
And still we ignore our creator 😭 the only one almighty
Thank you for the guy who sting himself just for the video
He's a professor! You can find links to his work in the video description.
Let's also thanks the bee that died for this video.
It was stock footage I bought from the professor, so the bee died for someone else's video long before, but I did re-buy it, so I suppose I'm guilty of supporting the death of the bee.
A bee stung my balls once; it was an ancient Chinese treatment to enlarge my sac
@@AristasTheMonsterHunter that bee was also a professor, suffering from suicidal depression, so everyone got what they wanted.
This video randomly reminded me of a nature program I watched a few years ago. A Bee colony was under attack by giant wasps, and it wasn't going well for the bees, until the wasps started entering the hive. At that point the bees covered the invading wasps and then literally cooked them to death, by generating a massive amount of heat through vibration. EDIT Not Wasps, Giant Hornets
I have seen a video like this, too. I also remember they used infra red filming to show the heat cooking the hornets. Commentary mentioned how it was such a fine measurement between killing the hornet but not the bees.
Unfortunately the European honey bee does not do this, only the Asian honeybee balls up and cooks wasps.
I have seen videos like that too. It is scary and awesome at the same time etc. Lol.
Hornets are big wasps
I remember watching that
Excellent presentation, it's incredible how complex the mechanism behind a simple bee sting is. Thank you for your work Jon, you have earned my support!
This video does not help with my fear of bees at all 😱
Great stuff! As a beekeeper(stung twice today!) and a teacher, I appreciate this on several levels.
hey, would you mind if i ask, what should you do if you get stung by a bee? remove it as fast as possible?, apply X remedy to wound? etc
@@agustinfranco0 Yes pull out immediately, less venom pumped in body.
@@flowerstreetfarmbees thank youuu
Doesn't your protective equipment stop stings? Also, when a bee stings your ppe, do their stingers get stuck in the fabric? I know that traditional bee keeping kills SOME bees every time you pull out racks, but how many typically die?
I'm interested in beekeeping myself. Looking at going with the flo-hive or something like it. I love these insects and could spend hours watching them do their thing.
@@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful I don't wear gloves. I handle frames better that way. I also don't react much to stings, so it doesn't bother me much. It actually helps with arthritis in hands and wrists
I was amazed at how easily
I understood the concept and mechanisms of the stinger with the animated diagram and colour-coded electron-microscope photo.
I wondered briefly why we don’t see more of it around, then I realised that it must take forever to make. But I guess once it is made it can teach people forever… thanks for making such an important teaching tool
Well put! It's certainly worth putting the effort into making sure others can learn.
Honey bees can free themselves in about 30 seconds to one minute if ppl don’t swat at them and don’t make them want to leave - if one moves or swats at them, they will fly off and the stinger will be stuck, and they will páss because of it, so if one gets stung, one should just wait and not move until the bee frees herself without losing the stinger!
I love how much the connections between the seperate parts of the stinger resemble common solutions used in things we assemble ourselves to keep moving parts together. I have to wonder if we were inspired by, or just happened to come to the same solutions nature did?
I can't agree more! I did a presentation on a topic known as bio-mimicry in school, and learned so much from it! Everything from improving wind-energy from studying whale fins to gathering more water in arid regions from the Namibian Fog Basking beetles just fascinated me! We have so much to learn from nature; she's had a few millennia head start on us 😂
Some of the things in engineering are actually just copied from nature. Its called Biomimicry. I watched a video about it on how they used it on making Trains a bit quieter.
What an amazing piece of bio-mechanical engineering. It even has a tongue n groove setup to act as a seal and a guide. FASCINATING!
Edit: Yes, you should be proud. These are the best animations to clearly show how the stinger works that I have ever seen... subscribed.
I got stung in the face and I was in shock at how such a little thing could cause such immediate and intense pain.
This is incredible. My jaw literally dropped when I saw your diagram. Thankyou for making your incredible shows. Time will tell with your talent.
Jaw dropped here too. Hung open too long. Consider me anazed
This is incredible. Both the mechanism and the diagram. Very good work!
Blown away by this presentation. Instant subscribe.
Yes "mel" is latin for honey but actually the word "melissa" is Greek for honeybee and the word "meli" was used as far back as ancient Greece meaning "honey".
Hope this was informative and helpful.
Great work on this video!
You are correct, I added that in the video description.
And in Spanish we call honey "Miel".
You are seriously underrated man, this should have millions of views!
It probably will if he gets on Twitter and tweets things like "Have you ever wondered how complex a honey bee stinger is? Fully explained!" + link
When I learned about why only female bees have stingers I was so amazed. It’s so cool and makes so much sense from an evolution perspective. Love it!
Evolution doesn't make any sense without a Conscious agent doing work on the system
Why?
@@godnyx117 You'll have to wait for StatedClearlys next video to find out I guess haha
All this and you still think from an evolution perspective, I feel sorry about u
@@ayman8423 I understand that you don't believe in evolution and that you may even feel sorry for me because I do. However, I want to respectfully share my perspective on this topic.
For me, evolution is a beautiful and amazing way of looking at the world. It helps me understand the diversity of life and how it has changed and adapted over time. The scientific theories and evidence behind evolution are fascinating and have expanded my knowledge of the world around me.
Furthermore, the evidence for evolution is simply overwhelming. From the fossil record to genetic studies, the evidence supports the idea that organisms change and adapt over time. This isn't just a theory, but rather a scientific consensus that has been supported by a vast amount of evidence.
I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I believe in evolution. Instead, I encourage you to explore the evidence and consider the amazing insights that evolution can provide.
This has to be one of the most under valued videos on YT. It is great for all ages; educational with great narration & color. Perfect tempo and time for careful study AND drifting off to sleep. Amazing
I'm a beekeeper and I approve this message.
Melissa (Μέλισσα) is bee in Greek 🙂
I always loved bees and they are one of few insect (or insect-like) species along with European ladybugs and small spiders which I allow even to crawl on my hand.
Just don't make sudden moves, don't swat them, don't poke their hive with anything and you should be totally fine for them unless there is a history. Funny that even with their short lifespan, subsequent generations seem to remember past transgressions somehow.
wouldn't almost all evolutionary traits qualify as exaptations? it's always building on something that was there before but didn't have the function it now does?
yeah, kinda, but i mean, imagine a bird, ok? now imagine a bigger bird. its wings evolved and are bigger, but kept the function. fly.
"Exaptation" is usually only used when the old function ends up being lost or heavily reduced, which is not always the case.
This was an amazing content
And beautifully done by the Narrator
I could not be prouder to have such an incredibly brilliant brother. This explanation is so cool and makes perfect sense once it’s broken down like this. Your ability to explain in easy to digest bits is a gift very few possess.
Welp. This is my first video of yours that I've watched and you've instantly earned my subscription.
Yet another phenomenal video from Stated Clearly. Thanks, I am looking forward to more.
It's fascinating to see evolution do such wonderful bits of engineering. Sure, it may have poor grip on overall architecture and some implementation details, but it sure does sometimes create some wonderful solutions to the fitness function.
Getting stung by a bee hurts like hell
Wow, who knew?! That's an impressive piece of engineering that mother nature came up with. Thanks for sharing.
In 2nd grade, during PE, a bee would always come over and land on me. It was my bee friend. I just assumed it was the same bee every time, since it was so consistent
That is the cutest thing I have heard all day :)
Man, you are an inspiration, im a PhD student in Immunology, But if I were doing my PhD in Zoology or similar field, I would be gladly recommending your videos for my students
Holy crap. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Impressive
If you are allergic to the bee's venom, it's not the venom that kills you, but the reaction that your body has to it.
In an effort to defend the body from the bee's venom, the body starts to swell. If you are allergic this swelling will be much more generalized across the body. You will die when you're neck muscles swell and choke you. So you will die from mechanical asphyxiation and not from the venom itself
This is not one of the venom's effects but rather a reaction from body so you will not die directly from the poison of one bee, but you can die from the toxicity of the bee's venem if you are stung multiple times.
This video makes me think that certain inventions are unavoidable…like nature made a amazing blue print for a pump system inside a bee stinger….. wow!
This video simply amazing. On a weird note, your videos on bee actually inspired me to believe human can also make sacrifices for each other.
Don’t sacrifice yourself.
I'll prepare the candles and inform the other cult members.
>> human can also make sacrifices for each other.
One can only imagine how inspired you'll be when you discover the Aztecs. 😂
My word. Watching the video from beginning to end, this is the most comprehensive and concise explanation of how a female honey bee's stinger works. The author understands the details without losing sight of the big picture. Great video.
1:18 When that happened to me, I felt the pain inly at the moment of the sting. It didn't feel like the venom kept being injected.
I did a jungle trek in Laos and we had to pass under a bee nest hanging from a fallen tree. Being close to it didn't effect the bees at all. But for three of our group of eight people who got scared as soon as they had to cross underneath one bee attacked. It's like they feel you're scared. Everyone that was relaxed didn't get stung.
"Bees are gentle little creatures". African bees (also present in South America) skipped this lesson in school..
You do know that I've exception only strengthens the rule, right?
There are over 20,000 known and much more unonown bee species on Earth. One of them is aggressive, yeah, big deal.
It's like scrapping a whole production line in a factory because every 20000+th product has a slightly deformed but perfectly working packaging.
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Someone doesn't seem to grasp the concept of irony...
@@fr_schmidlin
Who?
The fear of honeybees is absolutely warranted. I've been stung 5 separate times while walking in separate locations for literally no reason. No hive near by, not swinging at them, not even aware of their presence. Yes honey bees not wasps. The little fuckers hate me.
this is absolutly amazing, i had no idea!
Really high quality video. I've discovered that I apparently have that bee phobia since I felt uneasy the entire 9 and a half minutes.
This is my first time finding your channel and I fell in love! The way you describe the content and take the care to create such detailed animations is top notch!
I’m looking forward to future content and the pleasure of getting to view all your past videos now
It's so crazy to me that an animal evolved a biological jigsaw attached to an automatic syringe. Imagine something like that on a human sized animal
Great video! When i was a young boy and bees were plentiful, I would study everything about them from behavior to anatomy. The stinger was always a subject of great interest. I would extract a stinger and observe it functioning under a magnifying glass and realized it had its own short life outside of the bee. One time I just barly made contact with a living stinger and noticed it crawling to full depth into my finger. This video confirmed the nature of my suspicions and taught me a few more thing i didnt know.
Excellent job!
Another, very high quality creation of Stated Clearly. Keep up the good work. This is amazing.
Interesting! Surprised this video doesn't have a million views with all these high quality animations, to be honest.
Nature, you crazy!
Im so impressed that even a little tiny thing but still composed by delicate, complicated and well-fuctioning parts. Oh my mother nature.
Great... Now I'll know exactly what's happening the next time I get stung by a bee. Thanks! 😐
Wow this is a testament to why I adore educational content on youtube.
Such a small piece of action yet the science involved behind this is massive! Thankyou for the animation. Loved it!💕
It is absolutely beautiful. And I bet one day, humans will be able to use this as a model to develop a less invasive medicine delivery system.
@@Inertia888 that's a good point you made!
The runners are insane!! Evolution and nature is absolutely mind blowing!
The bees stinger is made to protect there hive from insects where there stingers easily punchurs there armour but with mammals our thick skin gets the Stinger stuck and after they Sting us they have to make the ultimate sacrifice.. there life
Fun-fact: the queen bees stinger is smooth allowing them to sting multiple times
Their*
0:55 It derives from μέλι the Greek word for honey, and the name of bees in Greek is μέλισσα. Also the word phobia comes from you guessed it, the Greek word φόβος which means fear.
It literally means the "Fear of bees"
This thing's so complex! No wonder that they die when they lose so many organs!
Btw, Nature's Compendium sent me! #honeybee
Congratulations dude! You won!
@@NaturesCompendium Thxs!
Imagine Negan's baseball bat had bee nest instead of barber wire😂
Amazing video! 👏 I just learned something really cool with my morning coffee! 🤠
Melissophobia comes from greek Μέλισσα or melissa with english characters that translates to bee and phobia from φοβία that means fear. Just so you know the origin of the word
TLDR: Bees deploy a short-lived organism that death-sentences the bee and whose sole purpose is to auto-double-chainsaw its way inside other beings, pumping pain-flavored venom in the process.
In my youth my father described to us children the action of a honey bee sting and the sting tearing out of the body of the bee causing its death. In my mind I imagined this with such clarity and compassion for the bee that I fainted, my mind went foggy and sickly and I lost consciousness. Waking up on the floor several minutes later. This happened again many times over the years, whenever I could not face something medical. Ultimately I undertook a nursing degree, in part to face this recurring issue, and solved it for myself.
But I've never actually seen the honey bee process till now.
Its even more impressive that my imagination 😮.
Thank you.
Oh yes. Nursing chewed me up and spat me out so this is seriously NOT about how 'wonderful' nursing is.
But thats another story.
Nursing is a noble profession! Thank you!
Thank you! Exceptionally well explained and illustrated.
You have no idea how educational all of this is, it is a great service to the people to have things explained to them through means other than words
Oh he knows
After being stung by one a couple weeks ago, I have so much more respect for these little creatures. So glad I stumbled upon this video.
Haven't subscribed to a channel this quickly. This is such high quality content! I would love more videos about the mechanisms of animal functioning.
Amazing! but i'm still puzzled on why would they evolve the stinger in a way that it needs to detach and kill the bee, i mean i get it it keeps pumping venom for a good while but why, nobody has ever been stung by a wasp and though "hey at least it's not a honeybee!" is it because their venom is weaker and in turn less expensive to produce? maybe it's because the difference in diet between bees and wasps that make it possible for the latter to make a better venom? or maybe it's because it simply does not matter because in the big picture most bees won't get to use it since it exclusively for self defence as opposed to wasps that use it to hunt also... but evolutionarily speaking i think this would require the stinger to originally be barbed by default which clearly isn't the case since the original stinger is an ovipositor... ahhh i need answers!!!
Bee stings dont usually cost them their lives. Because of the characteristics of human skin, bee's barbs tend to get stuck in the skin, causing separation. The skin of other animals typically doesn't pose this issue and they will survive. Humans arr relatively hairless, so we have thick skin
Zeus was very crafty when he rewarded the over demanding honey bee.
Hmm , now I understand(O_O)
Beautifully animated and brilliantly explained!
Wow, great diagrams and explanation! Thanks!
Good thing I didn't die For The stinger! But it hurt bad
Absolutely amazing, sends shivers down my spine (such a geek...) - thank you!
can you also show the differences between the hornet and wasp stingers
I know this comment will get lost
But if you happen to see it, dude this was too good THANK YOU.
R. E. Snodgrass must be the most badass etymologist name ever. That'a guy born to be too cool for his own good at his profession. We salute you sir.
Yes, "mel" is Latin for honey, but in that word, "melisso" is Greek for "honey-bee" (the word is actually melissa).
I was confident another bee nerd had beaten me to this. 😂 All hail Melissa 🐝
@@theparalexview785 I am actually a language nerd. :)
WTH evolution?
And to think that nature has created billions of these sophisticated biological systems. All while using the least amount of resources possible.
Ouch. I knew bee stings were painful because of the venom, but didn't know it acted like a saw.
Bit of convergent evolution. Mosquito proboscis has a very similar anatomy.
Evolution is fascinating. How many versions of that stinger over millions of years to get to this sophisticated weapon 😳
I was attacked unprovoked by a bee this year, as i was normaly walking. First time it stinged me in the little finger, but i removed the sting immediatly and almost didn't felt pain. Second time, 6 month later, i managed to hit it when it was attacking me and killed it.
I dont understand the fear of small bees…
Its the yellow jackets and wasps that is scary….
This channel is a gem !
Thank you for this fascinating video. It put the half an hour of burning agony and cursing into a wholly different light :)
Your diagram is Praiseworthy!!
People think a bee stinger is just a needle but it's actually a needle with 2 digging blades
Such a fantastic video, man! The animation is 👌
The precision of nature beats the clumsy attempts of humans everytime🤓
That is one of the best things I have ever seen on the Internet -
Thank you
Just so you know, this totally made my phobia of bee's worse 😬
People say that bees doesnt have venom, can we now once and for all agree that they DO!
I also have melissaphobia. But only because my ex's name is Melissa.
I’m glad the AI hasn’t taken your job…. Yet….
Wow. So fascinating. Thank you for making such interesting content. In just this video, you've earned my subscription
This answers one if those questions I've asked but never looked up. Its more gnarly than I ever would have imagined!
You do great work 👍
GOD is the only best bioengineer ! you are Angel ! ✔