[kellyhound]

[azblue81]

This doesn’t look real. He doesn’t have any bees on him.

[Guns N' Coffee]

No pain, no gain

[DarkSighted]

Yeah, somehow probably AI: no bees on his face/arms/chest etc. OTOH, our noting this simply gives AI tips on how to make it better next time... :P

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by DarkSighted ↗

Yeah, somehow probably AI: no bees on his face/arms/chest etc. OTOH, our noting this simply gives AI tips on how to make it better next time... :P

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He's an experienced bee hunter and in this case a giant Asian honey bee.

By scooping them gently without pinching individual bees he moves them as a mass and as long as an Asian honey bee does not feel compressed or trapped against his skin, its instinct is to crawl toward darkness rather than sting immediately.

doing this it mimics the dark, protected crevices of a tree hollow. Instead of flying away or panicking, the disoriented bees instinctively bundle together inside the fabric to stay warm and protected, waiting out the disturbance.

Their primary survival instinct is to tightly cluster and carpet the actual honeycomb structure to guard the baby bees and the queen hidden deep inside the core layers.

what we don't see is probably he used smoke, like all hunters do, esp. with Asian honey bees, which masks the bees' ability to communicate, tricks them into thinking there is a forest fire, and forces them to gorge themselves on honey until they are bloated and lethargic.

By the time the cam starts recording, the bees are probably heavily sedated and confused. He probably locates the section of the comb containing the queen bee or a freshly cut piece of the brood comb, which holds the baby bee larvae and smells strongly of the queen's pheromones and he tucked that specific pheromone-heavy piece inside his waistband/inside pants sleeve pocket

Unless the hunter aggressively bats at the air or panics, the vast majority of the colony stays anchored directly to the wax comb structure rather than flying off to land on his bare skin.

So pinching/swapping or squeezing one of the bees will trigger this pheromone so gently scooping them away is the tric.

When he moves the queen and baby bees safely into his clothes, she releases a steady stream of Queen Mandibular Pheromone aka QMP.

To the workers, this scent means that the queen is alive, healthy, and right here. They follow it blindly and calmly to protect her.

However, if he moves too fast and accidentally pinches, crushes or kills a single bee, or injures the queen, that bee instantly releases an alarm pheromone called isopentyl acetate.

This alarm scent smells strongly of artificial bananas. It flips a biological switch in the colony from follow and protect to destroy the threat in a fraction of a second.

Each colony and queen have a unique scent pheromone by the way.

A single Asian honey bee can carry up to 0.45 mg of venom in its sac. This is nearly four to eight times more venom than a standard Western honeybee or an Africanized killer bee, which typically injects only about 0.06 to 0.1 mg per sting.

Its stinger is much larger and stronger than a standard bee's. It easily punches deep past the top layer of skin, delivering its massive load of venom directly into deeper tissue and blood vessels.

It takes roughly 300 to 500 stings from the Asian honey bee to be lethal for a healty human being.

Those 500 stings are usally done under 30 seconds as a colony contain around 100,000 bees.

The victim will experience extreme, burning pain, severe swelling, vomiting, diarrhea, and a drastic drop in blood pressure during the first 3 hours and the kidneys etc. will totally shut down in the next 3 to 5 days without medical help.

Let alone you get stung 2,000 times or more as then death is within 5 to 30 minutes.

If he makes it to a hospital under 30 minutes they will immediately perform plasmapheresis and continuous hemodialysis.

They hook the patient to a machine that physically drains their blood, filters out the venom sludge, and pumps clean blood back in.

However, at 2,000 stings, the damage happens so fast that patients rarely live long enough to reach the machine.

[AllegedlyHere]

His homemade recipe for Honey Nuts Cheerios

[DarkSighted]

Thanks for the backup, as always. Watching again, he does at least have some bees bouncing off of him. Put in the light of 'it's real', it's kind of a thing of beauty to watch, rather than someone perhaps auditioning for BME...

[Mecrupulent]

I really thought it was AI too.

It's amazing.

[Mecrupulent]

A mosquito or some other bug flew in front of the screen as I watched this a second time, I fucking jumped from my bed