Wasps, also known as wasps or wasps, are extremely widely distributed insects, and many people mention it and pinch a cold sweat. But you know what? There is a kind of hornet called the big tiger head bee, the world's largest and most poisonous wasp, also called the Chinese tiger head bee, they are the most ruthless slaughterers of the wasps, after the invasion of the Americas, the local bees are almost extinct, but the same as the prey of the Asian bees have multiplied to this day. How strong is the Fighting Power of the Asian Hornet? Killing all the little bees in Europe and the United States, why are Asian bees not afraid of it?
Ruthless slaughterers
"Green snake bamboo mouth, wasp tail needle", describes two kinds of highly poisonous things, although the last two sentences are biased, but these two sentences are very realistic, once a person is bitten by a green bamboo snake or stung by a wasp tail, the rescue is not timely and small life has to be accounted for. However, some people wonder whether the venom of the big tiger head bee is really strong enough to be comparable to the highly poisonous green bamboo snake?
So let's take a look at where the Chinese tiger head bee (hereinafter referred to as the tiger head bee) is poisoned? The first is its own bee venom. The tiger head wasp can reach 6.4 cm in length, and the tail needle is very toxic, which will cause human liver, kidney and other organ failure. If it is stabbed more than 20 times by its poisonous needle, it is likely to directly cause death. Second, the protein of the tiger head wasp can trigger an allergic reaction, which will lead to blood pressure-lowering shock in the human body, which is life-threatening.
Third, tiger-headed wasps are carnivorous insects. In their minds, nectar is never as tasty as the meat of insects or animals, and they even eat the flesh of cobras. If you say that the venom of the tiger-headed bee is indeed not as good as the green bamboo snake, but what you know is that the tiger-headed bee is very aggressive, and when they sting people or attack other animals, they rarely act alone, and if they are stung by a tiger-headed bee, you may just have painful allergic reactions and toxic reactions, but what if it is a group? The consequences are unimaginable.
Tiger-headed bee super powerful ability to slaughter all the American bees!
At present, the situation of the new crown epidemic has troubled Americans, and at the same time, the "killer bee" has also killed in the United States, making Americans simply feel the "bee" frightened. These wasps, which Americans call "killer bees," are tiger-headed bees from China. But in fact, the case of tiger bees injuring people is still relatively small, and there are only dozens of deaths caused by stings every year, as long as you do not provoke it, it does not bite easily. The "killing" here refers to the frenzied slaughter of American bees.
How do tiger bees slaughter?
The tiger-headed bee has a sharp jaw, which can be used as its killing knife, and even the rats fall under this knife, so it is not a problem to easily cut open the bee's head. What's even more frightening is that once the tiger-headed bee strikes, the target is not just a bee, but the entire bee's hive. In an hour, a tiger-headed bee can bite the heads of 300 bees; If dozens of tiger-headed bees join forces, it is easy to eliminate a large bee colony within half a day.
After the scientists studied, the slaughter process of the tiger-headed bee wasp was divided into three major steps. First, the tiger-headed bees would form a slaughter squad to attack and send scouts to find the hive. After slaughtering the defending bee, the scouts would bite off the defending bee's head, eat its belly, and then bring back the protein-rich parts to feed the baby bees. It's certainly a brutal scenario, but scientists point out that's because tiger-headed bees do focus on finding a lot of food quickly, and bees are good targets.
The scouts would then bring the message back, and the killing squad would set off. Come to the target hive and start slaughtering the mouths, until all the bees have their heads cut off, and the slaughter is complete. Finally, it's the moment when the Tiger Bee team enjoys the results. After a full meal, they collect the pupae and bee larvae from the hive and then bring back their hive as rations for the baby tiger bee for the week ahead.
As a result, it is such a large-scale massacre that makes the American bees overwhelmed, resulting in a large number of local bees dying, so that the plants that originally need to be pollinated by local bees cannot produce normal results, the impact is very large, and the entire agricultural production will be destroyed if it continues, and the local ecological balance will be difficult to maintain. Now, the United States, Canada and other countries have listed tiger bees as invasive species, and once found, they can immediately organize hunting.
Tiger bees are so terrifying, why are Asian bees not afraid of it?
Tiger bees originally lived in a small area, mainly distributed in Pakistan, southern China and Indonesia, and most of the mainland is distributed in Fujian, Taiwan and Liangguang. At this time, I believe that many people are confused, it seems that they have not heard the news that Asian bees have been slaughtered to the point of extinction, why are Asian bees not afraid of tiger bees? In fact, this is mainly because Asian bees have a trick that American bees will not do, so how do they fight against predators?
Asian bees are calm in the face of predators. When American bees see powerful tiger-headed bees, they are basically frightened and can't think of any coping strategies. Unlike Asian honey bees, they will wait for the opportunity and at the same time raise their abdomen and make a "buzzing" sound, with the purpose of arousing the vigilance of nesters inside the hive and reminding the nesters outside: there is danger, stay away from the hive.
A scientist who has studied Asian bees for seven years says Asian bees use a variety of signals to communicate, including several sounds made by rapidly vibrating their chest and wings. They are always communicating, whether it is good news or bad news, they will exchange, such "anti-predator alerts" are something that American bees can learn. Next, when the tiger-headed bee catches an Asian bee, they can start using tricks.
The other bees will form teams to rush to the tiger-headed bee, encircling it in a circle to form a huge bee ball. The bees then begin to vibrate their wings rapidly to dissipate enough heat to keep the bee balls heating up. Here Asian honeybees take advantage of their strengths: the heat tolerance of bees is higher than that of hornets such as tiger bees. When the bee ball heats up to 46 ° C, the tiger head bee is basically intolerable and will be roasted to death, so that the invading enemy will be successfully eliminated and the entire hive will be saved.
We know that after all, asian bees and tiger bees have lived in the same land for millions of years, and in the long hunt and resistance, Asian bees must find their own way to survive, otherwise they can only wait for extinction like American bees. Can the American Bee find its own anti-enemy tricks in the future? No one knows this, but for now, the Chinese Tiger Bee is definitely a terrifying existence that they cannot fight.
Author: Cream997 Review: Henna