Giant Honeybees use a collective defense known as “shimmering” to deter wasps and other predators, whereby hundreds of individual bees flip their abdomens upwards in a coordinated wave-like pattern.
Giant Honeybees use a collective defense known as “shimmering” to deter wasps and other predators, whereby hundreds of individual bees flip their abdomens upwards in a coordinated wave-like pattern.
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Finally, a post that is interesting asf!
I mean..I’m not messing with em.
Bees together strong
It’s like they have a hivemind or something.
They bee tripping
TIL that wasps and other predators are also deterred by stuff that is creepy as fuck just like I am.Â
I can see why that’s work on predators, it worked on me
Bees are amazing!
They don’t have a nest?
So should we be calling it the bee wave instead of the mexican wave?
Cue [the sound!](https://youtu.be/HPMad816bGE?si=2iPdZMz5jcUBDRNC)



Rorschach likes this.
its working dear fucking god
Like a bee haka

Their raves must bee-amazing.Â
Humans collectively do this too, known as the Mexican wave
whoa
I dare you to poke it.
I’m already halfway down the highway at this point so i guess its worked on me

Wow that’s neat. But I already ran from a snake earlier in one these posts I’m running from this too

Yet another example of non-local consciousness
Made my day. Thank you

How are they able to be in such impeccable sync?
Just the simulation rendering

Bees in the future doing the shimmering
So they’re… basically twerking 🤔😅? Their abdomen is their butt thing, no?