Bee's eating paint. Can anyone explain this?

📢📢Context/Details 📢📢 These are Asian honey bees (Apis cerana), they have a defense mechanism against giant hornet attacks that involves masking the scent trails that the hornets use to coordinate attacks by pasting strong smelling materials at the hive entrance. They have been observed collecting animal feces, soap flakes, paint flakes and other similarly strong smelling stuff to disguise the scent markings left by scout wasps and prevent group attacks on the hive. Here is a link to the original publication: …. 📣 hope this was informative 📣

The way these honey bees opening the bottle cap, great team work!

The hornet that k!lls the honey bee is attacked by other honey bees.

Bees rescuing one of their comrades when it gets injured in battle.

Bees assessing health of their queen

This raccoon living his best life ❤️

Pretty sure the frog just flipped the bee off at the end 😂

Came to the comments looking for an explanation? Here you go🤝🏽

When bees get tired of flying and carrying pollen, they can fall asleep in flowers this way.

A group of bees take revenge on a giant hornet for eating one of them