Killer Bees: The Real Zom-bee Apocalypse
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- An experiment gone wrong, a lab accident, and a government conspiracy… The origin of the killer bee sounds like a zombie movie come to life.
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"They're a lab experiment that escaped". These are bouta be the next Spiderman villian.
Time to go and try get stung!
I think I seen what he looks like. He's called The Pain right?
@@glenngriffon8032 I know nothing about spiderman except that he does the web stuff. And Big Wheel. Never forget Big Wheel
@@nathanalde9744 I was making a joke reference to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and the villain The Pain who fights with an army of trained bees.
@@glenngriffon8032 I ate a snake at this one place once
Sometimes when a scientist says oops it can mean they have caused a big problem.
oops
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov
But, you don't ever want to hear, "Oops."
Exactly. Great discoveries aren't heralded by jumping out of the bath and shouting, but by a slight tilt of the head to the side and a quiet "Huh..."
What does it mean when one says oof instead?
Tom Wes - It means they now have to clean up the vat full of gelatinous goo that they inadvertently knocked on the floor.
As a beekeeper, I can tell you that the big problem with feral colonies is that honeybees nest in things like tree cavities. Even if you don’t see them, they might still see you.
Nicolas cage once said
*NOT THE BEES NOT THE BEES*
don't forget the over-dramatic AAAHHH!
We now know what he meant.
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I seriously thought this was going to be about some kind of zombie bee. Like a cordyceps infected bee strain was going around infecting other hives.
Agreed. I thought it’d be about infected “zombie bees” leading to Colony Collapse. :/
Look into parasitoids if you're into that kind of thing.
Well, there’s some parasites that cause a sort of mental degradation in bees. It’s less “zombie” and more the bee loses any sense of purpose and just crawls along, flies in short bursts, runs in circles, or exhibits other sorts of strange behavior until finally dying.
I study in the college (and the same campus) that made the hybrid bee. Our mascot is a bee haha
AEHOO É NOIXX
Ah nice! Were you involved with it in any way?
No, it was way before I was even born. Plus, I'm a geology/paleontology major, not biology :)
geology is not science .
Groot Official but it is a great tool that helps science.
You can't blame Killer Bees for their aggressive bee-havior. They're just bee-ing themselves.
Bee yourself!
Oh honey, you have it all wrong.
I wonder if they will ever get to Polen
bees are dying out. it's a good thing we made them more aggressive if we want plants to be around on this earth reproducing through bee pollination.
I can J'h'ive with that statement😂😂
(JK sorry for my bad nonsense pun)
(I left an insane post about brainwashing hornets to track down and destroy the killer bees, somewhere in the comments if you're interested it's not funny though it's just odd and maybe a fun or scary idea idk)
Oh stop with bee puns honey, everyone is buzzing to think of some, I don't know any, but hive five if you make a good one
Dank Matter You like Jazz?
yazz flute?
These were so bad it stung.
Bee quiet if you’re gonna use puns aswell
I can bee that your joking beehavior is causing a buzz in the replys.
That was a brave attempt at pronouncing Abelhas Assassinas. Bravo!
Note the happy face when Olivia says 'killer bees'.
All I could notice was that snot ring in her nose. Iewwwwww....
@@slukky are you joking? Or are you just dumb i really can’t tell
I thought this was gonna be about the Cordyceps fungus jumping species to bees.
_That’d_ be an episode.
Caden Stevens
What if that’s what Hive-O is?
Hmmm. Good idea for an episode..
Mafic please refrain from generalising the Cordyceps to infect bees. The further we get from The Last of Us, the better
Its not that big of a jump too, ants and bees are both hymenopterans are they not
You neglected to mention what really cemented the fear of Africanized bees in the public consciousness - the spate of killer bee disaster-oriented films in the 70s, culminating in Irwin Allen's theatrical production of Arthur Herzog's The Swarm in 1978 starring Michael Caine and Henry Fonda. There was also The Bees (John Saxon), The Savage Bees (Ben Johnson) and its sequel, Terror Out of the Sky (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.), and Killer Bees (Kate Jackson).
The 70s was a terrible time for the average honeybee (and probably the common beekeeper).
Some good movies
I lived in Green Valley, Arizona, where I knew three people whose pets were killed by these bees. It was sad and scary.
There was an opportunity to stop the northward progress of the bees, at one point, as they moved through a geographical 'bottleneck'. The plan was to introduce European queen larvae into the colonies, in hopes that they would breed out the Africanized DNA. But, unfortunately it turns out that the Africanized queens tend to emerge just a few days sooner and the first thing an emerging queen does is go around destroying all of the queen cups she can find in the hive.
woah that’s so interesting! i love how metal queen bees can be
As a brazilian: that was a good pronunciation of "abelhas assassinas"
As the son of a beekeeper: that was accurate
As an allergic to bee sting: yep, they are dangerous
That scientist was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.
For the record, Australia also has native bees. Most of them are stingless! One looks like a moth. Australian bees are pretty cool.
AH! You got in there *zom-bee-fore* me! 😉
I wasp so excited to pun it up!
Hi there
Stop this
*bArRy b. bEnSoN*
*ya LikE J A Z Z?*
🅱️arry 🅱️. 🅱️enson
Did you just assume my gender?
I’ve got three hives of my own, and it’s interesting how each hive has distinct behavior. One of my newer hives in particular is agitated much easier than the other two (they’re always grumpy lol). My top bar hive bees are the calmest in the bunch and are much easier to work with. The third hive fluctuates in mood and varies day to day!
I’d make a Bee Movie joke, but the meme lasted long as an average bee’s lifespan
Haha...cheekily you _did_ make a bee movie joke!
Two years??
Multiple resurrections?
Honey badger don't care.
word
Lmao I remember that video.. I actually had a shirt that said that 😆
There was that 1978 Irwin Allen movie, The Swarm, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross and Henri Fonda. Very entertaining and over the top. 😄
Meh. Wake me up when the killer chickens attempt to take over the world.
Gravijta
Ah yes, the chickenpocalypse. That's going to ruffle some feathers.
Nah, you want to go with Troma Films original, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
Best of both worlds, and a better movie than it has any right to bee.
@@Samael1113 oh the puns! They're too powerful!
That will never happen. Chicken is way to tasty
*in the distance * wake me up inside...
I love this girl. She seems so smart and cool, and cute. Sorry if that comes off as creepy, she's just someone I wish I knew IRL to chill with.
killer bees are the reason why flame-throwers arent illegal
Those bees need to beehave themselves
Not the bees! Not the BEES! AAAHH!!!
Proper equipment for dealing with a killer bee hive is quite simple: 1) Bee-suit, 2) Flame thrower, 3) Fire Extinguisher.
For all that the internet jokes about such things, "Kill it with fire" is actually a correct response for dealing with nasty, stinging, winged hate-balls of all varieties.
0:37-0:41 OH S*%T.....someone got fired and thrown to a dungeon for this..
Sooo basically they made the calm bees into god damn hornets...
More of a reason for me to freak out every time i see any of them.
How do you possibly ~accidentally~ release TWENTY-SIX QUEEN BEES?
Its a well publicised anecdote. Basically, there were mesh screens over the entrances to the hives. The gaps in those screens were just large enough to allow the worker bees to come and go, but small enough to keep the larger queens from escaping. One day, a trainee noticed the worker bees were struggling to fit through the mesh and were causing traffic. This seemed inefficient to the trainee, so he removed the mesh. And then probably went to tell the grown ups to receive his pat on the back. I don't think he got one
Oopsie poopsie just released twenty six hyper aggressive bees. Oh well can’t be too bad.
after learning more about these invasive bees... Im glad I live in the UK with the European honey bees who are super calm! :3
one was even chilled when I picked it up because it flew on to my hair and I was afraid of it being tangled, luckily I was able to let it crawl on to my hand so I can move it to somewhere safer than my hair lol
killer bees:
let's destroy the ecosystem
fire ants and argentina ants: you are late
Ya like jazz?
My new favorite hank
I am jazz
This history is old here, a trainee thought he would help the bees leave the hive easily and make it less hot by removing a screen at the hive entrance( that kept the queens inside the hive), after that the hive spread.
Wow
Nice hair bro. Keep rocking the fro
Could the reason for decrease in defensive nature be lack of ferocious predators over the course of many generations?
Makes sense. The most aggressive ones would actually do poorly because they'd attract too much attention from humans.
You actually said abelha assassina perfectly! Congratulations!
this scared me 35 years ago when i first heard about it in elementary school, luckily the bees seem to be taking their time working their way north
A briefcase full of Bees should put a stop to this.
When finally Brazilian science makes it to SciShow it's about an epic fail *sigh*
What... Is the airspeed velocity of an unladen honeybee?
krizmos74 what do you mean? A European or an African honeybee???
Huh? I... I don't know that.
How do you know so much about honeybees?
Corrible Hunt well... You have to know these things when you are an entomologist, you know!
Auuuuuuuugh!!!
Lol
Bee hives are freaky to get rid of from front house porches.
Crate of beer + BB gun + exposed hive = great Saturday afternoon
They are fine now and are friendlyer than normal bees.
A zombee apocalypse would be worse than a zombie apocalypse
5:25 Olivia looked sooooo glad to be making those puns lmaoooo 😆😆
Of course she is. Puns are life, puns are love and so dam funny.
“ honey badgers do what they want “ damn i forgot about that video 😂
I got stung for the first time last year (by a group of mud wasps), and I am now terrified of being stung to death....
I'm Brazilian and you've pronounced "abelha assassina" very well.
Parabéns :-)
My beekeeper buddy says Africanized queens hatch one day earlier than the European Queen...that is why they have maintained their aggressive gene/behavior. Also, they can live where it is cold like European bees but their tendency to swarm at any time results in swarming too late in the season to develop enough honey at the new hive to survive the winter....
The invasion of killer bees should inspire the plot for a sequel of the Bee Movie.
I was a "Bee" average student in school. My nickname was "honey"buns. My teachers tended to "drone" on, but I'm a hard" Worker" , I guess you could say I'm "hive minded." sometimes I would "bumble" my way around. I'm gonna "buzz off" now. "Killer" video, by the way.
NOT THE BEES!!! NOT THE BEES!!!!!! THEY’RE IN EYES!!!!! MY EYES!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I've been working on a new kind of bee. It's a hybrid. I'm trying to see if having much more deadly venom will help increase honey production. Oh god I left the window open. Dammit!
Learning about these bees in uni really freaked me out. Glad to hear the end of this video!
Interesting, I didn't even know "killer bees" wasn't a name for hornets XD
Aaaaaaaaah..
3:06 ".. while dr. Kerr was away, a visiting scientist accidentally (?) let queens get away."
If I recall the history, the originally selected (less aggressive) African bees were accidentally killed by insecticide treatment of the cargo, so things started going wrong (resorting to replacement unselected stock), before the accidental release
Really? My apiary inspector has worked with several hives with just a vail on, only to get the morphology test back from the lab saying 90% or more Africanized genetics! Some hives are hot and some are not.They're great bees if you can keep them in the hive long enough.
The European honeybees should've built a wall.
So what I gathered from this video is that... Hufflepuffs are fierce! GO HUFFLEPUFFS!!!!
OH
and one BIG
BIG POINT TO MAKE:
when you see a swarm of bees on your car or house:
CALL A BEEKEEPER NOT A EXTERMINATOR!
itll save you some money and possibly the colony
and another note: if you have a feral bee hive growing on your house or on your property and want it gone
AGAIN CALL A BEEKEEPER!
theyll happily take it or call a friend whos looking or a new hive
and you might get some of the honey they were storing because usually they collect a fuckton and they dont eat a lot of it unless its a cold climate
Apropos "escaping": Please do a video about the Myxomatosis disease next
Gotta throw the whole science out.
oh no, please don't kill those bees eight tail! XD
Humans made killerbees and let them escape, because of course we did. Ugh
Yeah, we have a hobby of doing that.
I loved the pun! Please keep them coming.
What pollinated flowers/plants/trees before the honeybee was brought to the Americas?
There are a number of native pollinators actually. Different sorts of moth, butterflies, solitary bees, etc. They just aren't as prolific and efficient.
@@beth8775 Oh, right of course! Didn't think about those little fellas 😊 Thank you!
It's actually a myth that the common honey bee is the best pollinator for all plants.
In fact, honey bees are an invasive species, endangering many native plants and their specialized pollinators. It's a very real problem when domestic bees escape and go feral.
Bumblebees are actually more efficient pollinators than honeybees, because they concentrate on collecting more pollen rather than nectar and are able to transfer more pollen from each flower. However, the downside to this is they make less honey, because their colonies are small, only numbering up to 100 or 200, and the hives are seasonal, with the Queen and her workers dying off in autumn so there’s no need for storing food in the winter. Personally, I’d say bumblebees are better for beekeepers because they pollinate more crops, and they’re more docile than honeybees, but if you want bees that produce more honey, go for honeybees.
There were a ton of native bees in the Americas before and still now.
And even excluding bees, there are lots of other species that pollinate.
What she said about 1000 stings killing you is (while a good median) bs. There hasn’t been good research on killer bee stings (to my knowledge). Some people not allergic can die from way fewer stings, or way more. Your reaction depends on a bunch of different variables and there just aren’t a lot of good studies on it.
You’re also more susceptible to the venom the more often you’re exposed to it.
It’s just... complicated
Born and raised in Africa Kadoma bees like we call them are never aggressive. This is why they go at great lengths to hide their colonies. Abandoned termite mounds (kiswa) are a particular favorite. Indigenous bees are not that aggressive, that is fiction/ exaggeration
My mom had a friend who, while horse riding, ran into a killer bee hive. Luckily, her friend was fine. But the horse, the HORSE, died. (A WHOLE HORSE!!!!)
They're exhibiting less extreme defensive *bee*-haviour.
Go Africa! Nice of you to say we know how to watch our bees.
Haha, this is why it's okay to own a flamethrower in Southern states.
Great job! Love working with bees. Killer, Bee Story😉😂sorry I couldn't resist. LOL
Thanks for giving this topic a go, Olivia !!! I've been wondering about these bees myself, lately!
bees never get their honey
They come single and thrive!
If you could create bees that attack people on command, you'd have a deadly bee-weapon!
Bees... My god...
I believe this is what inspured Electronic music producer PIXL to make his track Buzzkill.
"The Real Zom-bee Apocalypse"
Death-themed puns? Hmm. Well, you know, Dead Sullivan once introduced _The Zombeatles._
SciShow, why does a highly carbonated drink hurt?
Thats why Killer Bee is a Killer.
Sounds like a plot of a typical zombie apocalypse book
So they're like the tracker jackers in the Hunger Games.
Mormons love bees, they love bees so much that bees are a part of their stonework upon their buildings. Bees.................
native bees are my favourite type of bees
KILLER BEES LAZLOW!!
Only 90's kids will recognise this reference ;)
Eddie Strike I'm not from the 90's but I was just vaguely remembering Camp Lazlow the other day. Wasn't sure if it was some fever-dream delusion or not
Or maybe he was a slug? In any case, that solidified it for me
Unfortunately you have failed this test.
Do you want to become a bee supper? I don't
What would happen if killer Bess fight good bees hmmmm
I'm allergic, but always calmly watch a new do her thing. Facinating that I could die from such a tiny thing.
I'm sure they have some human zombies locked up in a bunker too. Like the first resident evil!
Ok here is a stupid idea what if we train a group of honey badgers to kill the bees then return to there cages or habitats i mean honey badgers are really smart so maybe if we got the right people to train them.
Killer bees? I hardly know her
Thanks Brazil!
Hunger Games got its Mockingjay,
We have killer bees.
Love the title. Another could be: Insects bee-having badly. Or bee-hiving. Your choice. :0)
"they are slowly moving up north in america"
me who lives in north america: w-what?! shiz-
Apparently they came directly across the carribean, from Venezuela. There have been 3 hurricanes in that ocean tract the past season, anyone of them could've swept the bees in. If you please notice, the eighteen vein intersection on the fore wing and the seventeen separate angles of the hamuli. Only one bee has that configuration, and it's the african killa bee.
Hope they get tamer and tamer to the point they don't kill off other bees
I've been waiting for the killer need to arrive since the early 70s. I was terrified.
Best way to kill killer bees.
Soapy water in a pressure washer