susan Antman. Can shrink down to the size of an ant and has the strength of an ant. Then there is Ant (alter ego Hannah Washington) from “Ant” published by Image Comics.
Bees are frequently their own predators. Strong hives will rob out hives that aren't well guarded and yes, being proactive against outside threats is probably why their behavior developed initially. Scarce resources must be hoarded and guarded for the colony to survive. When resources are plentiful it becomes less of an issue.
@@ralphgresham6327 I believe the most effective means is to place, underneath Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, a giant wood chipper or garbage disposal and open the floor up underneath them. Start over from scratch afterwards. With, applying to all, a 2 term limit of no more than 6 years per.
You talk like you think there is some genetic difference between the guardian/forager/hive worker bees. There isn't - all worker bees go through all three jobs as they mature. The recently hatched are not mature enough to protect the hive or forage, so they care of larvae and clean the hive. As they get older, they become guardian bees. After some time as guardians, they become foragers - and remain foragers for the rest of their lives. So the only real variable is how many days the bees remain as guardians before becoming foragers. The queen herself does not determine this ratio - all she does is lay eggs. So the worker bees themselves must figure it out. Maybe it is a matter of how fast the bees go through the various stages of maturity.
@@buggsy5 are you sure the queen doesnt control that ratio by hormonal secretions? ive always assumed the queen had more control then given credit for, just anecdotal observation. my dad kept bees.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Very certain. We know for a fact that all worker bees go through the same life stages/processes. So ALL forager bees were once guardian bees aka "soldier bees", who previously were nurse bees. The queen has less control than previously thought... example, it's not the queen that decided when to swarm, it's the hive and one of the ways they prep the queen is by not allowing her to lay, they chase her from the cells, and this helps her abdomen to shrink so she can fly when the time comes, and then they bully her out of the hive and they're the ones that pick where to go. As far as anyone knows, the queen doesn't make any choice in the numbers ratio of the hive. all she does is lay the eggs. The workers even determine how many drones by deciding how many drone cells to build in the hive. (This of course goes out the window with an infertile queen who lays drone eggs instead of worker eggs.. but the point stands)
Perhaps in this environment where there's so few opponents (I assume), this is true. I think it's more to do with the wet season causing such a hamper on foraging, the hive needs as many as possible to get what little it can.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Even killer bees are mellow when swarming. This was demonstrated by a man in Panama who did the same thing decades ago, he even picked up chunks of the killer bee swarm, and he didn't get stung once. When they're not swarming is when they are extremely aggressive. This video makes me wonder if there are any other areas where they have calmed down.
The African bees these were bred with, had very high honey production - and very high agression. This was a nessesary set of traits for the environment - Africa. Outside of african style environments with it's climate and predators, that hyperagression is no longer needed. Maintaining such a large force of warriors is just a reource drain. The wet season might have expediated that adaptation, but it is generally where they are going.
But ... but ... what about corona virus!! It's going to multiply and wipe all of us out!! Run!! Run!! Shelter in place!! Shelter in place!! Hide!! Hide!! Run!! Run!! Sometimes it's not hard to think bees are smarter than the average human.
its also possible that since our first instinct when we encounter a possible threat, like aggressive killer bees, is to neutralize it, that and the fact that since highly aggressive bees would suffer high mortality rates from stinging, could have acted as a selecting force. in any case i'm glad this situation hasn't gotten nearly as bad as was initially feared. In fact i've heard that in many parts of the US beekeepers have begun raising killer bees, they are more productive than standard european honeybees and can tolerate more arid climates if I recall correctly, which is why they were originally created.
@mario pokenerd And it turns out that they are resistant to a particular virulent disease that European Honeybees are prone to, so it seems that the original Dr Frankenstein experiment that created the monster Bees might have ended up as a success if the Africanised ones have now adapted in this manner. Human Meddling in Matters We Should Not Know Of, 1 - Nature, 0. In your face, Nature!
I have seen farms with multiple hives where all the hives were normal but one. One even went and killed one of their chickens and injured other farm animals.
This is fantastic! I love this idea that the weather could play such a major role in both having a robust hive that fends off varroa mites, but are also gentler to handle.
killer bees in Arizona appear to have mellowed out as well. instead of stinging people as much, they will bump them in the forhead or chest. Bees like me for some reason, even the killers. my orange trees are covered in blossoms right now and there are killers with their smaller, darker bodies, higher pitched wing beats and more attitude, and regular italian bees that are really mellow towards people. They fight over blossoms on the orange trees. Ill be walking by since my two trees are right outside my shop and the bees will fight angrly in the air in front of my face. Both types ignore me. several times ive been with other people who the bees didnt like and they got bumped which really freaked my wife out when the first killer swarm moved into my yard and bumped her a couple of times. They didnt stay, thankfully, but moved on after two days. Same with several buddies out hiking, in a very narrow gorge spring, going up on a 65 degree angle, tangled in brush nowhere to go but up the super narrow trail, they started bumping my buddies, but not me. They didnt sting anyone. but my buddies were freaked a bit.
This is very interesting. The bees are warning instead of attacking. Which is smarter. And it seems they 'know' you and dont warn or attack just wait for you to move on, like they know you will. Makes you think and wonder about adaptability on a cellular level and communication between hives for sure.
It may also be a "cultural" difference because of the need for more foragers; the other thing that occurs to me is that, if every sting leads to a dead bee, the massive attack response would be very costly to the hive so less aggression may leave the hive better able to survive.
Their forage adaptation played a Huge role. More foraging bees were necessary 4 colony survival. You gave me lots of ideas. 6mo long nectar pollen availability is a wonder in itself
Much is said about the Africanized bees being more resistant to varroa, but the same can be done with the common European variety if cell size, and gradually the size of the actual bees, were reduced back to their natural size. The larger bees we've been breeding need more brood time before hatching, which is an open invitation to varroa.
11.5% sales tax is low to you? Ignorant people shouldn't comment. If you are referring to most of us not paying federal taxes (some of us do), "taxation without representation" is something Americans has fought since the very beginning of our nation. What is the difference between refusing to pay taxes - that resulted in the USA war for independence - to a far away kingdom (England) where the American British colonies had no representation and Most of Puerto Rico not paying taxes to a far away government where we have no congressional voting representation? Give me a break. We are as American as it gets. No taxation without representation, and if you can't give us representation, set us free.
The reason why this happened here in Puerto Rico, is Supernatural. From pre-Colombus times, this island (known as Borikén in Taino language) was an eden of peace. While the Caribe indians were cannibalizing the rest of the Caribbean, they met their match in Puerto Rico. Thus, acts of cannibalism never happened here. No innocent blood was shed in this island, for over 1,500 years (BIG contrast with Mexico, South America & the rest of the Caribbean). When Columbus arrived in his second voyage, he came with Catholic monks and their first stop was in Aguada, Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493. Thus, the firsr Christian mass was performed in Puerto Rico. Another HUGE blessing for this island. Finally, around 1510, Puerto Rico was awarded its Coat of Arms and its first governor: Juan Ponce de Leon, the ONLY Consquistador who was not a blood thirsty animal (opposite to Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who went thru Cuba when they first arrived to the Americas). FINALLY, the Coat of Arms of Puerto Rico portrays our Lord Jesus Christ, sitting as the Lamb of God, on top of the Book of the Apocalypse (not just the Bible). That was the cherry on top. That is why in more than 500 years of colonization, even our armed resistance was almost non-violent. It is the law of our land. In Puerto Rico there are no scorpions, no poisonous snakes, no lethal insects or mammals. Not even man-eating sharks prowl our waters. Thus, when Killers Bees were imported in the 1990's, they had to adapt to our Natural Law. Curious and unexplicable incidents like these, are but a glimpse of all the beautiful things that happen thru nature, protecting our island. Another example: for every 1 hurricane that hits Puerto Rico, an average 10 pass thru our sorrounding neighbors. Coincidence? I think not.......
Thinking back on it; it was around the alte 1990s here in Arizona that Africanized bee attacks really started dropping off as well. Too; in the desert areas, we receive virtually no rain compared to Puerto Rico.
This is what I read on a comment from another TH-cam video related to aggressive bees and how they deal with them in Africa (I took a screenshot of the comment and saved it for future reference). Comment by Neal Skelton. "When I was stationed in South Africa, I was able to meet a local beekeeper. After a while, he was asked to help out another beekeeper several miles away. He didn't have reliable transportation, so I gave him a ride. What he did, was build a bonfire in front of the hive about 10 feet away from the front of the hive. Then he banged on the hive. Several hundred bees came out and went straight to the fire. The next week we went back and it was a completely different hive. That's when he replaced the queen." My suggestion would be, if you can't replace the queen, then repeat the same procedure every time you see that the aggression starts to build up again, that way you will be able to keep the number of the most aggressive bees down very effectively. That's apparently how they deal with aggressive bees in Africa, and apparently it works for them, it should work on your Africanized bees also. You could use a portable grill instead of a bonfire, get creative, and share this technique so beekeeper can work around their Africanized bees.
Because lots of killer bee hives in other areas are interbred with calm European bees and yet are still insanely aggressive. So it's unlikely that is what changed them.
Both Africa and Europe are filled with honeybee hive predators. North and South America have less threats but still plenty, so they only toned down a little when introduced here. On some peacuful island, all they have to worry about is the weather and things that prey on individual bees like robber flies, dragonflies, and spiders, such predators aren't much of a problem as individuals can be easily replaced. Nothing bothers their hives much on those spots, so they mellowed out.
I live in San Antonio Tx. I feed the bees sugar water on my balcony for breakfast. They are not aggressive in any way; if they get in trouble in the water, I offer them my fingertip, they grab on and stay with me for a few minutes until they are dry enough to fly again. Be kind to bees.
More like heavy dry seasons in Africa cause bees to value and protect what little they have and be aggressive, opposed to being in an abundant climate where there's more in just collecting for storing and not having to protect it as much because there's so much... no mindless racism, just common sense you lack.
Any farmer could have told you this. My grandpa used to catch swarms of bees as a kid. If you are gentle and get the queen, the bees will follow you anywhere. And they won’t sting. And happy bees aren’t aggressive.
I just noticed in the slow speed video clips that a bees legs counter oscillate with their wings so the head and thorax stays steady. They are like tuned dampers. Nature is awesome.
oh my god my dad lives in Puerto Rico and we see tons of bees. (here's a little back story) when it was summer I went to visit my dad for vacation (in Puerto Rico) and one time I was playing with my cousin and a bee landed on my arm at first I thought it was gonna sting me but after 40 seconds of screaming like a girl the bee was just sitting there. Every time I tried to take it off it keeps coming back. sooo.......... I kept it I'm not sure if it's illegal but I'm keeping it I still don't have a name for it yet.
I don't think it would be illegal to keep a [non-native] bee, but it should instinctually have tried to return back to its hive eventually once it was done foraging.
Pro Man Vlogz Hello Pro Man Vlogz( like your picture(its so cool)!! as well as your screen name by the way!!! Just finished reading your comment most interesting Do you still have that bee? USA South Louisiana.
As a guy with a biology background and much attention focused on evolution I have enjoyed learning about these African bee colony changes in puerto rico. Amazing to have adapted so fast. It shows that adaptation isnt necessarily gradual over time through natural selection. There is something else at play. Probably the universe energy component, maybe the divine component.
The reason the bee's don't harm people now is because they like this climate it is just right for them these sorts of bee's don't like the weather too cold or to hot this climate is just right for them all year round.
In low populated areas in countries without financial resources, killing anything that comes by is probably a good survival strategy but as Killer Bees move into populated areas it becomes counter-productive because humans will search them down and kill the hive. So, there has probably been a differential survival rate for less aggressive hives.
I walked right through a swarm of killer bees here in Arizona as I was on a trail on a cliff side and had no choice. They didn't bother me at all. I walked gently and I was wearing all white. I wonder if they are going through the same transition.
Puerto-Rican culture is unusually rich, interactive, festive and anti-confrontational. Apparently the bees awoke to the fact that they are on Fantasy Island. Perhaps that lady on Crashboat fed them some Pinchos. That would ease anybody's bad attitude.
Has to be the lack of animals that steal their honey (badgers, bears, etc). I don't buy the rainy/dry season pattern reason because in Brazil (where they were hybridized first) they also have rainy/dry season climate pattern and the bees are still aggresive
ok first of all foragers are the aggressive older bees, the ones that sting primarily. secondly their flow will dictate the amount of foraging bees a colony SHOULD produce. Their diet will also play a huge role in their behavior, how nutritional it is, how much they have stored away... They are extremely intelligent and can be trained like any other animal, they will overcome and adapt. I have conducted a year long study and have concluded they can be tamed to absolutely as docile as any bees available...
You are correct that the older workers are foragers. However, they are NOT the aggressive ones. Foragers have one thing on their mind, gathering nectar, and will avoid interaction with animals so that they can go about their gathering.
Another important factor not being considered: why colonies need soldier bees? To defend the colony from attacks. What can attack a bee colony in Puerto Rico? Practically nothing. The island doesn't have raccoons, bears, monkeys, birds that feast on bees like in Europe or Africa, etc. So, unless some rat tries to steal honey, which they will prefer to do at night rather than during the day when the bees are active, they have almost no reason to have soldiers. And given the other two weather reasons, they really need to get as much honey as possible during the dry season before the wet one comes. It's not only rain, _hurricanes_ are even worse, which have become stronger and more frequent due to climate change, and they wipe out all vegetation. The bees will have to survive on their honey reserves for long weeks. If for some reason the Asian hornet ever gets to the island like it did in mainland USA, then that would be a real enemy harassing them all the time. They may revert to get really aggressive because of that to improve their defenses.
Except this guy is wrong. All bees go through the same life stages, they emerge and become nurse bees, after a few days they become guardian bees, and a few days after that, they become foragers. They aren't like ants that have a specific class/type of hive member that's a soldier and only a soldier. And think about it.. In Africa, they have even LESS resources than in PR. Scare resources would not be a reason to decrease the number of guardians, even if they had a specific guardian class. No, there's more to it than that, and sadly, he dismissed the most likely one, which is the interbreeding with European bees, PLUS the destruction of highly aggressive hives selected against highly aggressive Africanized bees. The highly aggressive hives were destroyed, so the genes for high aggression were not passed on, but the other genes were.
Maybe it's just my optimistic brain, but wasn't that kind of to be expected? Bees have been around for a very long time, I would assume that the normal bees are suited best for overall survival. I mean hey, it's not like that kind of aggression is necessary for survival, since bees reproduce quickly, I would assume that that over-aggressive trait becomes obsolete fairly quickly as well.
I don't buy the hypothesis. Just having fewer soldiers in relation to foragers (and that's just relative, a particularly large swarm could still muster large numbers of soldiers even as a minority of the swarm) would just mean that there would be fewer bees in the attacking swarm, it doesn't address why those remaining soldiers are no longer so aggressive. Something has altered the _behaviour_ of the bees; that the aggressive bees are relatively fewer does not in itself resolve the issue.
They adapted to their surroundings, yes. Genetics does not always need to change for the animal to change its behavior, we see this all the time in nature.
Wouldnt capturing the queen make them more anxious? Also i see smoke in the air like theyre using chemicals in order to bring the insects to a docile state. Were there any statements on victims possibly provoking the insects or threatening them in any way?
las abejas tienen una cara bien tierna. Extraño aqui en PR los abejones o cigarrones. Hace mucho tiempo no veo uno. Y el patio de mi casa tiene muchas flores
I wonder if Puerto Rico has started exporting bees yet? Seems like a renewable natural resource that could possibly help other places that have killer bee problems
It is currently being done. I took a crash course in beekeeping, and another suggested source of income is exporting the queens. There is a high demand for the queens not only because their colonies will be less "aggressive," but are more productive and have immunity or high resistance to bee diseases and parasites.
The adaptation is interesting but one question begs to be answered which is why the killer bees became killer bees to begin with? They migrated so it wasn't an environmental shock. The breeding with others along the way could be responsible but doesn't seem likely. Pollution? There was a global decline and still is so is it possible that somehow a fight or flight response was triggered into fight on a genetic level in an desperate attempt to save it's own species? In Arizona killer bees have been used for honey production and over time they have become far more docile as well. We should collaborate more to try and discover the "why". That may just help save our species as well.
The amount of food is more abundant so there's less need for aggression? That's my guess. It pays to collect more food since there's more available, and you don't have to fight as much.
@@jeffreyreeves9113 Some things are evolution and not adaptation (dodo didn't adapt to become flightless, there just was no driver to maintain flight) and some things are adaptation and not evolution (Corvid tool design: hatched with no family to teach them, they will not build the same tools that their parents would teach them (though they would retain the evolved ability to understand and use tools, and to learn to build tools they see) ). Many things are both, and though you are not wrong to call this an adaptation, you are wrong in saying it isn't an evolution. It is if the change in behaviour is generationally driven and of a permanent nature. You aren't suggesting that the bees "decided" they needed less soldiers and more workers are you? Drop these bees in Texas and they won't just start hatching soldiers again will they? We aren't dealing with a semi sentient species like apes or dolphins, but a species driven entirely by instinct (biologically programed). The fact that they have biologically lost a defining trait of their ancestors (aggression) would in itself make a strong argument for labeling them as a new species, and at a minimum its certainly sufficient to define it as its own sub species similar to western and eastern cougars which have no physical differences, only behavioural differences.
Casually holding a swarm of killer bees should at the very least be considered a minor super power
Forget Thanos' gauntlet! I have a fistful of Africanized Bees!
Minor superpower? ... I'd go with one of most awesome superpowers.
Its got to be at least as good as a bunch of ants, if not better.
@@coyoteken1000 is there a superhero who uses ant power?
susan
Antman. Can shrink down to the size of an ant and has the strength of an ant. Then there is Ant (alter ego Hannah Washington) from “Ant” published by Image Comics.
The bees got nerfed with the recent patch.
They nerfed bees and they buffed Frost Mages again, WTF.
LOL
the warlock is perma nerfed since circa 2006
Nerfed bad
Bahahahaha
They found a much safer home. Watching that one bee mid air cartwheel from the rain was kinda hilarious. Poor little lady 😅
Bees: 'hey maybe if we stop being dicks and killing people, everyone won't hate us.'
+Mike G Bees in South, Central and North America: Naahhhh Mayunee! Keep being dicks and they'll respect our hives mayune!
there are no truer words ever spoken. Ty for this comment. Please take a moment to watch my content.
too late. They have killed babies. I hate em
They finally learnt to BEEhave.
Yeah, yeah, I'll find my own way out.
You're just Bee' ing silly
I BEE-lieve you should!
@James Sloan Well, I was hoping to create a buzz.
Tippy Magoo that pun STUNG me
you and your sweet honeyed words
They literally adapted to their new environment.
Less competition for resources means less robbing.
@@merholland8707 and a need to stockpile for resource scare period.
Bees are frequently their own predators. Strong hives will rob out hives that aren't well guarded and yes, being proactive against outside threats is probably why their behavior developed initially.
Scarce resources must be hoarded and guarded for the colony to survive. When resources are plentiful it becomes less of an issue.
Life finds a way
In before a creationist starts screaming that _they are still bees!!_
Hero punches the villain with a fist of killer bees. Credits roll.
It looks like we found The Pain from Metal Gear Solid 3. ^_^
Ant man 3
They have fewer threats that require focus on defense so they place more emphasis on the economy.
I wish we did the same.
*sigh* you underestimate the need for the defense budget
Lmbo
All we need to do is remove the criminal Democrats then we can start on the republicans.
Not true. Its simple selection. The aggressive hives were killed.
@@ralphgresham6327 I believe the most effective means is to place, underneath Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, a giant wood chipper or garbage disposal and open the floor up underneath them. Start over from scratch afterwards. With, applying to all, a 2 term limit of no more than 6 years per.
It's because of social outreach programs for inner city bees. ;)
LOL i dam near spit my wine out lol ha hahahahahahahah
Drinking wine while watching youtube videos its the first step to become a serial killer...
It's because they were blown out to sea by the hurricane.
Yeah, midnight B-ball.
And it worked! Who would have known :D
It's because of the Puerto Rican rum. A little goes a long way.
Andy R.
Chills me out!
Lol i prefer bourbon lol
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Gan-ja
Lol
Maybe it's due to the fact soldier bees are largely unnecessary, so those colonies that don't waste food by producing and rearing them live longer.
You talk like you think there is some genetic difference between the guardian/forager/hive worker bees. There isn't - all worker bees go through all three jobs as they mature. The recently hatched are not mature enough to protect the hive or forage, so they care of larvae and clean the hive. As they get older, they become guardian bees. After some time as guardians, they become foragers - and remain foragers for the rest of their lives.
So the only real variable is how many days the bees remain as guardians before becoming foragers. The queen herself does not determine this ratio - all she does is lay eggs. So the worker bees themselves must figure it out. Maybe it is a matter of how fast the bees go through the various stages of maturity.
@@buggsy5 are you sure the queen doesnt control that ratio by hormonal secretions? ive always assumed the queen had more control then given credit for, just anecdotal observation. my dad kept bees.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Very certain. We know for a fact that all worker bees go through the same life stages/processes. So ALL forager bees were once guardian bees aka "soldier bees", who previously were nurse bees. The queen has less control than previously thought... example, it's not the queen that decided when to swarm, it's the hive and one of the ways they prep the queen is by not allowing her to lay, they chase her from the cells, and this helps her abdomen to shrink so she can fly when the time comes, and then they bully her out of the hive and they're the ones that pick where to go.
As far as anyone knows, the queen doesn't make any choice in the numbers ratio of the hive. all she does is lay the eggs. The workers even determine how many drones by deciding how many drone cells to build in the hive. (This of course goes out the window with an infertile queen who lays drone eggs instead of worker eggs.. but the point stands)
@@buggsy5 finally a comment from someone who knows something about bees.
Perhaps in this environment where there's so few opponents (I assume), this is true. I think it's more to do with the wet season causing such a hamper on foraging, the hive needs as many as possible to get what little it can.
THAT MANS GOT BALLS TO HANDLE WITH DANGER BEES :()
@Michael Ward killers were NOT mellow swarming when they first got here. killed people dogs horses. normal bees are mellow swarming.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf Even killer bees are mellow when swarming. This was demonstrated by a man in Panama who did the same thing decades ago, he even picked up chunks of the killer bee swarm, and he didn't get stung once. When they're not swarming is when they are extremely aggressive. This video makes me wonder if there are any other areas where they have calmed down.
@@carnivalwrestler Haight-Ashbury.
The African bees these were bred with, had very high honey production - and very high agression. This was a nessesary set of traits for the environment - Africa.
Outside of african style environments with it's climate and predators, that hyperagression is no longer needed. Maintaining such a large force of warriors is just a reource drain. The wet season might have expediated that adaptation, but it is generally where they are going.
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But ... but ... what about corona virus!! It's going to multiply and wipe all of us out!! Run!! Run!! Shelter in place!! Shelter in place!! Hide!! Hide!! Run!! Run!! Sometimes it's not hard to think bees are smarter than the average human.
@@mjremy2605 Ah, that was the word I could not remember. Thanks.
@@davesmith5656 this is a video about bees, nothing about a corona virus. please stop.
@@jackalope_hunter He can not help himself. No other way to fullfill his dreams of becomming a mass murderer.
The ultimate example how an organism is a product of its environment.
Five year later... why are we not talking about this? Remember when Americans were TERRIFIED of Killer Bees????
Because no drama for media. "Killer bees attack!" is not the same as "No attack of killer bees in years."
Yeah...that Anthrax album really freaked me out.
its also possible that since our first instinct when we encounter a possible threat, like aggressive killer bees, is to neutralize it, that and the fact that since highly aggressive bees would suffer high mortality rates from stinging, could have acted as a selecting force. in any case i'm glad this situation hasn't gotten nearly as bad as was initially feared. In fact i've heard that in many parts of the US beekeepers have begun raising killer bees, they are more productive than standard european honeybees and can tolerate more arid climates if I recall correctly, which is why they were originally created.
They weren't created. They were imported from Africa.
@mario pokenerd And it turns out that they are resistant to a particular virulent disease that European Honeybees are prone to, so it seems that the original Dr Frankenstein experiment that created the monster Bees might have ended up as a success if the Africanised ones have now adapted in this manner. Human Meddling in Matters We Should Not Know Of, 1 - Nature, 0. In your face, Nature!
This is also known as the Kalergi Plan.
I have seen farms with multiple hives where all the hives were normal but one. One even went and killed one of their chickens and injured other farm animals.
I’m thinking I encountered a swarm of Africanized bees in an old dilapidated barn near Speedwell Virginia about 2- years back?!
This is fantastic! I love this idea that the weather could play such a major role in both having a robust hive that fends off varroa mites, but are also gentler to handle.
killer bees in Arizona appear to have mellowed out as well. instead of stinging people as much, they will bump them in the forhead or chest. Bees like me for some reason, even the killers. my orange trees are covered in blossoms right now and there are killers with their smaller, darker bodies, higher pitched wing beats and more attitude, and regular italian bees that are really mellow towards people. They fight over blossoms on the orange trees. Ill be walking by since my two trees are right outside my shop and the bees will fight angrly in the air in front of my face. Both types ignore me. several times ive been with other people who the bees didnt like and they got bumped which really freaked my wife out when the first killer swarm moved into my yard and bumped her a couple of times. They didnt stay, thankfully, but moved on after two days. Same with several buddies out hiking, in a very narrow gorge spring, going up on a 65 degree angle, tangled in brush nowhere to go but up the super narrow trail, they started bumping my buddies, but not me. They didnt sting anyone. but my buddies were freaked a bit.
Soooo... Creatures become more aggressive when deprived of adequate resources for living? Interesting....
This is very interesting. The bees are warning instead of attacking. Which is smarter. And it seems they 'know' you and dont warn or attack just wait for you to move on, like they know you will. Makes you think and wonder about adaptability on a cellular level and communication between hives for sure.
Its because they've been sneaking into the Bacardi Factory at night. They are all mellowed Out.
It may also be a "cultural" difference because of the need for more foragers; the other thing that occurs to me is that, if every sting leads to a dead bee, the massive attack response would be very costly to the hive so less aggression may leave the hive better able to survive.
But the same would be true for africanized bees everywhere else but they remain highly aggressive
With fewer 'soldier' bees, the relative cost of losing them is greater too.
Their forage adaptation played a Huge role. More foraging bees were necessary 4 colony survival. You gave me lots of ideas. 6mo long nectar pollen availability is a wonder in itself
killer bees never been the same since ODB passed. RIP 🙏🙏💯
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Could this man have to do something with the killer bees? 📺🎙
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Lol they're probably melting from the damn humidity!
Cnw#870 Puerto Rico can do what they want, but I want to know why ones in the United States are being filmed instead of killed.
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They beat their swords into ploughshares
Now then, how about shipping some of those “fire ant” colonies off to PR, maybe they could wind up gentler too?
We already have them. And they still on fire.
@@arturoviva5718 that sucks
They can take all of the yellow jackets around my house 😎
@@arturoviva5718 Why don't you just use a fire extinguisher?
Pls dont,i don't want them eating my lizards
its me! thanks
haha congrats!
Gabriel Diaz yeah sure it is
Much is said about the Africanized bees being more resistant to varroa, but the same can be done with the common European variety if cell size, and gradually the size of the actual bees, were reduced back to their natural size. The larger bees we've been breeding need more brood time before hatching, which is an open invitation to varroa.
Glad to know that with counseling and rehabilitation killer bees can go straight
They’re in a good mood due to low tax rates.
Is that what your wife tells you every night Puerto Rico is not low taxes trust me there's a catch in every end
11.5% sales tax is low to you?
Ignorant people shouldn't comment.
If you are referring to most of us not paying federal taxes (some of us do), "taxation without representation" is something Americans has fought since the very beginning of our nation.
What is the difference between refusing to pay taxes - that resulted in the USA war for independence - to a far away kingdom (England) where the American British colonies had no representation
and
Most of Puerto Rico not paying taxes to a far away government where we have no congressional voting representation?
Give me a break. We are as American as it gets. No taxation without representation, and if you can't give us representation, set us free.
@@PRDreams and D.C. too!
That footage film taken of the bees remind me how beautiful these bees are. I love 🐝. Thank you for this great video....
The reason why this happened here in Puerto Rico, is Supernatural. From pre-Colombus times, this island (known as Borikén in Taino language) was an eden of peace. While the Caribe indians were cannibalizing the rest of the Caribbean, they met their match in Puerto Rico. Thus, acts of cannibalism never happened here. No innocent blood was shed in this island, for over 1,500 years (BIG contrast with Mexico, South America & the rest of the Caribbean). When Columbus arrived in his second voyage, he came with Catholic monks and their first stop was in Aguada, Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493. Thus, the firsr Christian mass was performed in Puerto Rico. Another HUGE blessing for this island. Finally, around 1510, Puerto Rico was awarded its Coat of Arms and its first governor: Juan Ponce de Leon, the ONLY Consquistador who was not a blood thirsty animal (opposite to Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who went thru Cuba when they first arrived to the Americas). FINALLY, the Coat of Arms of Puerto Rico portrays our Lord Jesus Christ, sitting as the Lamb of God, on top of the Book of the Apocalypse (not just the Bible). That was the cherry on top. That is why in more than 500 years of colonization, even our armed resistance was almost non-violent. It is the law of our land. In Puerto Rico there are no scorpions, no poisonous snakes, no lethal insects or mammals. Not even man-eating sharks prowl our waters. Thus, when Killers Bees were imported in the 1990's, they had to adapt to our Natural Law. Curious and unexplicable incidents like these, are but a glimpse of all the beautiful things that happen thru nature, protecting our island. Another example: for every 1 hurricane that hits Puerto Rico, an average 10 pass thru our sorrounding neighbors. Coincidence? I think not.......
Thinking back on it; it was around the alte 1990s here in Arizona that Africanized bee attacks really started dropping off as well. Too; in the desert areas, we receive virtually no rain compared to Puerto Rico.
"The wet season", it rains a shit ton here in Puerto Rico it's freaking wet season even in summer lmao
SHAHO- DÚN not in Ponce!
3:54 Incoming...incomin**SPLAT** ABORT! Abort! Wait, nevermind, I got this.
+Manchease Skrelpher WASTED
Yeah, felt bad for little dude
How’s their honey production? Has it increased?
probably tripple the production of honey i think more forager , more sweet sweet honey
arnold shmitt very cool.
Yeah a bit more sweet a bit less fight to them now.
I've been sort of expecting this for decades just because they were initially so aggressive as to be harmful to their own best interests.
This is what I read on a comment from another TH-cam video related to aggressive bees and how they deal with them in Africa (I took a screenshot of the comment and saved it for future reference).
Comment by Neal Skelton.
"When I was stationed in South Africa, I was able to meet a local beekeeper. After a while, he was asked to help out another beekeeper several miles away. He didn't have reliable transportation, so I gave him a ride.
What he did, was build a bonfire in front of the hive about 10 feet away from the front of the hive.
Then he banged on the hive. Several hundred bees came out and went straight to the fire.
The next week we went back and it was a completely different hive.
That's when he replaced the queen."
My suggestion would be, if you can't replace the queen, then repeat the same procedure every time you see that the aggression starts to build up again, that way you will be able to keep the number of the most aggressive bees down very effectively.
That's apparently how they deal with aggressive bees in Africa, and apparently it works for them, it should work on your Africanized bees also. You could use a portable grill instead of a bonfire, get creative, and share this technique so beekeeper can work around their Africanized bees.
"Because they interbred with European honeybees..." pffft! How quickly was *that* dismissed? Like in a second?
Because lots of killer bee hives in other areas are interbred with calm European bees and yet are still insanely aggressive. So it's unlikely that is what changed them.
Well the DNA says not. Are you telling DNA it doesn't know what it's talking about?
DNA evidence will do that.
I'm pretty high right now, but I swear one of the bees at 2:26 just waved at me. Hello to you too, little guy.
less predators too, so less soldiers needed
So many armchair biologists / scientists here. Incredible!!
its spring time in Canada, and the bees are ALIVE! SUPER EXCITED
A question: Would the bees revert to being more aggressive were they moved to a different environment, such as one similar to the specie's origins?
Yes and no
Their original environment in Africa requires high aggression
Both Africa and Europe are filled with honeybee hive predators. North and South America have less threats but still plenty, so they only toned down a little when introduced here. On some peacuful island, all they have to worry about is the weather and things that prey on individual bees like robber flies, dragonflies, and spiders, such predators aren't much of a problem as individuals can be easily replaced. Nothing bothers their hives much on those spots, so they mellowed out.
Dude just casually has infinity gauntlet of killer bees
That and aggressive colonies tend to get found more often by accedent and thus erradicated more often by humans.
2:28 that looked like some epic slow motion parkour the way the bee bounced off
I live in San Antonio Tx. I feed the bees sugar water on my balcony for breakfast. They are not aggressive in any way; if they get in trouble in the water, I offer them my fingertip, they grab on and stay with me for a few minutes until they are dry enough to fly again. Be kind to bees.
They showed them "Scared Straight: Apian Edition"
maybe cuz most of people in puerto rico are nice so..... maybe that made them nice??
More like heavy dry seasons in Africa cause bees to value and protect what little they have and be aggressive, opposed to being in an abundant climate where there's more in just collecting for storing and not having to protect it as much because there's so much... no mindless racism, just common sense you lack.
puerto rican people are nice? lmfao
Jeronimo Vasquez whats so funny? we are nice
francheska cruz dude, Puerto Rican people are not nice. If you know them they are, but man, they are just super mean.
Carlos Colón Ok you dont know what your talking about.
Any farmer could have told you this. My grandpa used to catch swarms of bees as a kid. If you are gentle and get the queen, the bees will follow you anywhere. And they won’t sting. And happy bees aren’t aggressive.
KIlller bees, one human death a year.
No longer killing one human a year.
Humans: * *surprised Pikachu face* *
Basically the bees are now working and don't have time to sit around and riot anymore.
Haaaaahahahaaahahahahahaaaaaa lol good one!
holy fuck blue shirt guy. this man has balls of platinum.
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I just noticed in the slow speed video clips that a bees legs counter oscillate with their wings so the head and thorax stays steady. They are like tuned dampers. Nature is awesome.
oh my god my dad lives in Puerto Rico and we see tons of bees. (here's a little back story) when it was summer I went to visit my dad for vacation (in Puerto Rico) and one time I was playing with my cousin and a bee landed on my arm at first I thought it was gonna sting me but after 40 seconds of screaming like a girl the bee was just sitting there. Every time I tried to take it off it keeps coming back. sooo.......... I kept it I'm not sure if it's illegal but I'm keeping it I still don't have a name for it yet.
I don't think it would be illegal to keep a [non-native] bee, but it should instinctually have tried to return back to its hive eventually once it was done foraging.
idk but bees look kinda cute to me XD
Pro Man Vlogz Hello Pro Man Vlogz( like your picture(its so cool)!! as well as your screen name by the way!!! Just finished reading your comment most interesting Do you still have that bee? USA South Louisiana.
The native Americans refer to individuals having an animal totem (spirit animal guide). Maybe the bee is your totem, bro!?
You know a bee only lives about 12 weeks right?
That guy was wearing an infinity gauntlet made of bees.
0:48 BEE PUNCH!
Absolutely incredible videography!
As a guy with a biology background and much attention focused on evolution I have enjoyed learning about these African bee colony changes in puerto rico. Amazing to have adapted so fast. It shows that adaptation isnt necessarily gradual over time through natural selection. There is something else at play. Probably the universe energy component, maybe the divine component.
Probably epigenetics.
That's legitimately amazing.
this is some of the best footage of field research ive seen, nice and concise short little video too, with a very interesting topic
The reason the bee's don't harm people now is because they like this climate it is just right for them these sorts of bee's don't like the weather too cold or to hot this climate is just right for them all year round.
In Brazil they use africanized bees to produce honey, it's actually their preferred choice lol
This comment section didn't disappoint. Nicely done.
I don't know how 97 killer bees were able to smash the downvote button, but they did!
1:12 the right to bee arms
Evolution in action. A beautiful sight.
In low populated areas in countries without financial resources, killing anything that comes by is probably a good survival strategy but as Killer Bees move into populated areas it becomes counter-productive because humans will search them down and kill the hive. So, there has probably been a differential survival rate for less aggressive hives.
I walked right through a swarm of killer bees here in Arizona as I was on a trail on a cliff side and had no choice. They didn't bother me at all. I walked gently and I was wearing all white. I wonder if they are going through the same transition.
3:53 Poor bee. But now I want to see bees flying in rain...
It’s because they found Jesus
No, that just makes them swarm even more. Keep your Raid handy.
Best comment ever. 😅
No, they found pasteles! ¡Qué rico!
hey zues
lba dft
Menendez or Hernandez? Where did they find him?
Puerto-Rican culture is unusually rich, interactive, festive and anti-confrontational.
Apparently the bees awoke to the fact that they are on Fantasy Island.
Perhaps that lady on Crashboat fed them some Pinchos. That would ease anybody's bad attitude.
3:53 Amazing recovery.
Bees: ive decided i dont want to be the bad guy anymore
Has to be the lack of animals that steal their honey (badgers, bears, etc). I don't buy the rainy/dry season pattern reason because in Brazil (where they were hybridized first) they also have rainy/dry season climate pattern and the bees are still aggresive
00:34 UHHHHHHHH WTF?
ok first of all foragers are the aggressive older bees, the ones that sting primarily. secondly their flow will dictate the amount of foraging bees a colony SHOULD produce. Their diet will also play a huge role in their behavior, how nutritional it is, how much they have stored away... They are extremely intelligent and can be trained like any other animal, they will overcome and adapt. I have conducted a year long study and have concluded they can be tamed to absolutely as docile as any bees available...
You are correct that the older workers are foragers. However, they are NOT the aggressive ones. Foragers have one thing on their mind, gathering nectar, and will avoid interaction with animals so that they can go about their gathering.
Another important factor not being considered: why colonies need soldier bees? To defend the colony from attacks. What can attack a bee colony in Puerto Rico? Practically nothing. The island doesn't have raccoons, bears, monkeys, birds that feast on bees like in Europe or Africa, etc. So, unless some rat tries to steal honey, which they will prefer to do at night rather than during the day when the bees are active, they have almost no reason to have soldiers. And given the other two weather reasons, they really need to get as much honey as possible during the dry season before the wet one comes. It's not only rain, _hurricanes_ are even worse, which have become stronger and more frequent due to climate change, and they wipe out all vegetation. The bees will have to survive on their honey reserves for long weeks. If for some reason the Asian hornet ever gets to the island like it did in mainland USA, then that would be a real enemy harassing them all the time. They may revert to get really aggressive because of that to improve their defenses.
So it's basically because resources are so scarce in the rainy season that the bees cannot afford to maintain large numbers of soldier bees.
Except this guy is wrong. All bees go through the same life stages, they emerge and become nurse bees, after a few days they become guardian bees, and a few days after that, they become foragers. They aren't like ants that have a specific class/type of hive member that's a soldier and only a soldier.
And think about it.. In Africa, they have even LESS resources than in PR. Scare resources would not be a reason to decrease the number of guardians, even if they had a specific guardian class.
No, there's more to it than that, and sadly, he dismissed the most likely one, which is the interbreeding with European bees, PLUS the destruction of highly aggressive hives selected against highly aggressive Africanized bees. The highly aggressive hives were destroyed, so the genes for high aggression were not passed on, but the other genes were.
Maybe it's just my optimistic brain, but wasn't that kind of to be expected? Bees have been around for a very long time, I would assume that the normal bees are suited best for overall survival. I mean hey, it's not like that kind of aggression is necessary for survival, since bees reproduce quickly, I would assume that that over-aggressive trait becomes obsolete fairly quickly as well.
Now if we can train POLITICIANS.
...wasn't that to bee expected...
I don't buy the hypothesis. Just having fewer soldiers in relation to foragers (and that's just relative, a particularly large swarm could still muster large numbers of soldiers even as a minority of the swarm) would just mean that there would be fewer bees in the attacking swarm, it doesn't address why those remaining soldiers are no longer so aggressive. Something has altered the _behaviour_ of the bees; that the aggressive bees are relatively fewer does not in itself resolve the issue.
I reckon that these bees keep getting smoked with super-skunk. They're laid back, friendly and stoned.
So it’s a behavioral response to their physical environment as opposed to a fundamental change in their genetics.
They adapted to their surroundings, yes. Genetics does not always need to change for the animal to change its behavior, we see this all the time in nature.
2:48 to 3:00 ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!
At 3:53 that bee got hit with a raindrop and just rebalanced itself like it was nothing lol.
this channel has the most awesome photography.!!!!
Wouldnt capturing the queen make them more anxious? Also i see smoke in the air like theyre using chemicals in order to bring the insects to a docile state. Were there any statements on victims possibly provoking the insects or threatening them in any way?
The bees no longer have to compete with other Killer Bees. They mellow out ...
imagine if lawnmower sized balls of water just started falling and hitting you every once in a while
las abejas tienen una cara bien tierna. Extraño aqui en PR los abejones o cigarrones. Hace mucho tiempo no veo uno. Y el patio de mi casa tiene muchas flores
He just threw a bee hand like a fucking boss thats like a super power imagine getting 5000 bees thrown onto you by someone
Why hasn't this happened in Brazil? They have rain too lol like a LOT of rain in most parts
I wonder if Puerto Rico has started exporting bees yet?
Seems like a renewable natural resource that could possibly help other places that have killer bee problems
It is currently being done. I took a crash course in beekeeping, and another suggested source of income is exporting the queens. There is a high demand for the queens not only because their colonies will be less "aggressive," but are more productive and have immunity or high resistance to bee diseases and parasites.
@@juanmiranda-colon5207 on behalf of the people that don't know what's going on and how you're helping,,,
I Thank You 👍
Keep up the good work😎
2:30 Why am I getting Bee Movie vibes here lol
The BeeMan - new superhero.
Nice bit of research. Good filming too.
The adaptation is interesting but one question begs to be answered which is why the killer bees became killer bees to begin with? They migrated so it wasn't an environmental shock. The breeding with others along the way could be responsible but doesn't seem likely. Pollution? There was a global decline and still is so is it possible that somehow a fight or flight response was triggered into fight on a genetic level in an desperate attempt to save it's own species? In Arizona killer bees have been used for honey production and over time they have become far more docile as well. We should collaborate more to try and discover the "why". That may just help save our species as well.
The amount of food is more abundant so there's less need for aggression? That's my guess. It pays to collect more food since there's more available, and you don't have to fight as much.
3:54 bee got yeeted
Sounds like with the rainy season, the bees don't have time to devote bees to attacking people. It's all hands on deck with the foraging game!
Interesting to see how fast this evolution has taken place.
Adaptation. Behavior modification is not an evolutionary process.
@@jeffreyreeves9113 Some things are evolution and not adaptation (dodo didn't adapt to become flightless, there just was no driver to maintain flight) and some things are adaptation and not evolution (Corvid tool design: hatched with no family to teach them, they will not build the same tools that their parents would teach them (though they would retain the evolved ability to understand and use tools, and to learn to build tools they see) ). Many things are both, and though you are not wrong to call this an adaptation, you are wrong in saying it isn't an evolution. It is if the change in behaviour is generationally driven and of a permanent nature. You aren't suggesting that the bees "decided" they needed less soldiers and more workers are you? Drop these bees in Texas and they won't just start hatching soldiers again will they? We aren't dealing with a semi sentient species like apes or dolphins, but a species driven entirely by instinct (biologically programed). The fact that they have biologically lost a defining trait of their ancestors (aggression) would in itself make a strong argument for labeling them as a new species, and at a minimum its certainly sufficient to define it as its own sub species similar to western and eastern cougars which have no physical differences, only behavioural differences.