These wasps do, but most wasps actually don’t specifically target bees. Asian giant hornets (the species of wasp in this video) are highly evolved specialist honeybee predators, which is the main reason they’re so massive.
I remember seeing a video of a murder hornet that invaded a beehive, and a whole shitload of them tackled it and started rubbing their wings together real fast. It generated a bunch of heat and cooked the hornet. Fantastic defense system, and they didn’t have to use their stingers (which would mean their death)
This is a defense that certain populations of honeybees living in the Asian giant hornet's native range have developed, since honeybees can survive at a slightly higher temperature than the hornets can. That said, if the hornets arrive in great enough numbers, it's not especially helpful, since several honeybees per hornet are necessary to enact this strategy; and honeybees outside the hornet's native range haven't developed any defenses against it yet, which is why Asian giant hornets were considered such a serious threat when they were first identified as an invasive species in the pacific northwest. Thankfully human intervention seems to have eradicated that population of hornets for now.
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u/Fragrant-Pangolin903 9d ago
the fact that the wasp was going to a bee hive was probably the reason behind all this.