A man captured what seemed like a bee, saving another bee.
He narrated what happened by his windowsill, wherein a bumble bee was stuck in a spiderweb.
The spider spinning the web was nearby, moving swiftly, but the man had no clue what was happening.
We could only see in the video that the bumble bee was struggling.
A few moments later, there came another bee that looked like it stung the spider.
He put the video on slow-mo and zoomed closer to emphasize what seemed like the bumble bee stinging the spider, causing it to move away.
Look closely and see that sharp-looking body part piercing through the spider.
He posted this video on his YouTube channel, which got over two million views.
But this man left a bit of mystery at the end of his video.
He asked, “Did the second bee save the first one on purpose? Or was it just a coincidence that two bees landed in the same web?”
This was also in his video description, which called for help from the experts.
The experts answered, and it somehow disappointed the content creator.
He updated his video description with the link to an article written by an expert.
He did not mince words and said, “an expert disappoints.”
Yikes! So, what exactly did the expert say?
The author of this article from The Conversation UK was Dave Goulson.
He was a Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behavior, and Environment) at the University of Sussex.
Clearly, he knows his stuff and answering the big inquiry on that video was his bees-ness.
According to Professor Goulson, the second bee did not save the first bee.
Bumble bees may be social animals since they live together in a colony, but they are not that social to come to another bee’s rescue.
And while their buzzing sound is their means of communication, primarily when they work, it isn’t used as a cry for help.
What happened there was that they were two unlucky bees caught in the same way.
That’s it.
Bumble bees prefer to work alone to find flowers and collect food because they see this as more efficient.
This is much like an office set-up where unnecessary chitchat is deemed unproductive.
But why did the second be sting the spider, though?
Professor Goulson explained that it wasn’t the bee’s sting; instead, it was one of its hind legs sticking out and coincidentally in line with his abdomen.
He further explained that it was too long and thick for it to be a bee sting.
However, why did the spider walk away?
It’s simple. Look at the size of the spider and compare it to the bees.
Even when it was just the first bee, the spider was disadvantaged because the bee was bigger.
It slowly moved away, afraid that it would get crushed.
When the second one appeared, the more it scared the spider, and it decided it didn’t want to get caught in the middle of two bumble bees.
Watch the “rescue” in the video below.
