Why Puerto Rico's Killer Bees Stopped Killing

Couldnt pay me enough to hold all those bees on my hand

From my knowledgeable bees don't have life long tasks , its a ever evolving position starting as a young nurse bee , to building comb and going foraging to eventually gaurd bee , maybe the african ones are different

My guess? Anytime there was an injury or death the beehive was destroyed leaving alive the docile queens and hives

Thank you for sharing this video. It is the first positive information regarding the africanized killer bees that I have heard.

this may simply be the result of environmental factors rather than genetics. if it is genetics then we should introduce those genetics in areas with wild populations of Africanized bees to see if the same characteristics pass on in different environments.

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.

You people killthe bee this world will die

Puerto Rican bees eat more Mofongo, thats why they are more chill 😂

🐝🌌🌑🌕 Gracias 🙏🏼

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.

check them during a dearth and see if you can replicate the attacks witnessed in those years of difference if genetics did not outbreed the inbreeding.

Why hasn't this happened in Brazil? They have rain too lol like a LOT of rain in most parts

In Brazil they use africanized bees to produce honey, it's actually their preferred choice lol

I totally support what this video content has to say.

its not good for the beekeeping industry to keep pushing the killer Africanized bee thing.

In the past africa was colonized.
Now colony is africanized.

I figured the Puerto Rican gangs told them they’d better cool it and not mess with their territory.

What can we learn?

This is what I read on a comment from another YouTube 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.

Too nice to bee called "killer bees".

If this was in America that guy would be in a lot of trouble having that many Africanized bees crawling all over his hand and if what they're saying is true we could try and work the same method with the wild Africanized swarms we have in the United States.

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

Is because is vay better Environment for them!!! Is not dry like Africa i will be bad in Africa too is nothing really there soo sad i don't know why Africa is soo poor on everything 😢 💔 sooo such of majestic place!!!

Whattt they were killer bees!!!!!?? I am super scared of bees and I'm from Puerto Rico too Ima cry 😭

Bees: ive decided i dont want to be the bad guy anymore

Dude just casually has infinity gauntlet of killer bees

3:53 awesome :D

My alma mater UPR

Thanos at 0:43

2:28 that looked like some epic slow motion parkour the way the bee bounced off

Awesome! Turkish scientist in PR. :-)

Evolution in action! Clearly, they are on their way to turning into sheep.

I think bees kept by bee keepers tend to tame down somewhat after so many generations.

They must've found the hidden cannabis fields. Nom-nom-nom, now back to pass the good stuff around in the hive.

guy standing there with a huge fistful of killer bees. Scientist calmly says "We THINK they have changed"...riiiigghht. Let's trust science. They've never been wrong about anything. Right?

3:53 if you wanna see that one-in-a-million raindrop hit a bee mid flight in slow mo

Wow. Interesting

COULD IT BE THAT THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGED THEM, I THINK SO!

You can tell if the bees are Africanized if the bottoms of their feet are white.

How do you scare bees? Just yell boo bees!

Beating at the hive with a stick. Oh no people are being killed.

I think it might be something they are eating

when you idiots made the bee it was an unbalance.
thats why they're aggressive.
the A'bee's is a scared species.
but there arent any selectionary pressures that would make bees as aggressive as these ones.
Basically theyre returning back to docility.
They basically were created with teeth that were to big.

Fascinating

It's evolution... A "killer" instinct has no survival advantages and so it is breed out.

Yeah, if we can just make the whole worlds climate the same a Puerto Rico the problem is solved

Latino bees are lovers, not fighters.

Well considering bees die when they sting, the more aggressive ones probably died off without reproducing.