Shimmering Waves: How Japanese Honeybees Use Their Wings to Intimidate Predators
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Japanese honey bees(Apis cerana japonica) can create 'waves' and produce a unique rustling sound through the coordinated fluttering of their wings. This phenomenon, known as 'shimmering', is a defense mechanism used to deter potential predators.
This sends a clear message in sound and sight not to mess with them. 'There are a lot of us and we are very organised !'
Anyone know what the bees are holding onto in order to stay upside down like this? Twice in northern California, a bee hive was swarming, stopped and rested on a young tree in my backyard. The top bees were holding on to a smallish branch. All the other bees were clinging to one another in a moving, dripping column of bees! About 3 feet long. A beekeeper told me another queen had emerged from a hive and took a bunch of bees with her. After two days they were gone. Bees are so fascinating to me.
In other videos, she shows the hanging combs inside a mass of bees like this. I don’t think this is a swarm, this is what a hive looks like when they’ve built their combs underneath an overhang.
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It seems to me that these bees are more uniform don’t know why but other types of bees don’t do it this tightly and do that kind of thing they’re doing
Amazing and so beautiful!! Thank you for your videos!
How neat! Thank you
Our Hive Is Under Attack!
Looks like an average metallica concert 🤷♂️
Great video. I learned a thing! I find it fascinating that the Japanese people are arguably the best team player humans - and that Japanese bees are also arguably the best team player bees - this shimmering activity being one thing, and the way in which they work together to kill Japanese hornets another. Japanese hornets have invaded England but English bees don't know how to work together to kill them - they are all like 'hang on lads, I've got this' and they go attack the hornet individually - and get their heads bitten off. Whereas Japanese bees all jump on the hornet together and vibrate their abdomens to create heat that kills the hornet. Geographical locations and their accompanying weather conditions determine how colonies behave I suppose. Like in Japan it's all volcanos so frequent earthquakes so the culture has deep within it the idea of destruction / rebuild, and because of the mountain land people have for centuries crowded into small areas where the land is more hospitable - where populations are dense it pays to work together.
Is this a swarm looking for a new hive?
第一次看到這種現象，太神奇了!!!
It's like a mexican wave
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How fascinating! I’d never heard of bees doing this before.
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Very nice & strong beehive colony 🐝 🐝 🐝
They leaving the hive like fighter jets
I like it too.
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Unbelievable
They become bigger, one unit
👌👌👌Relly amazing
*Save the Bees 🐝*
How cute!