A bee that came back to life, and a week of queens and hornets for The Crawl Crew
Nine uploads went out, most of them about beekeeping, from caged queens to stolen brood, with a giant hornet guide closing the week.
The Crawl CrewStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
This Bee Came Back to Life
"This Bee Came Back to Life" is the title doing the most work on The Crawl Crew, the channel whose about text promises dark tales from the animal kingdom, all made by one person. Five days in, it has passed 100,000 views, the most of anything posted this week, and it is still picking up tens of thousands a day.
The title is a promise of a small miracle, and the comment section takes it seriously. Some viewers wonder whether the bee was ever really dead. Others answer with their own stories: one beekeeper in southern Tasmania describes warming chilled bees in a cupped hand until they could walk back into the hive, in a place where sun can turn to sleet in minutes.
The rest of the week stayed close to the hive. There was a queen whose life hung on a cage, an explainer on why beekeepers take young bees from a colony, a guide to never losing the queen, and a short detour to ants caught by a simple line. Then came "How to deal with the giant hornet invasion," which had the strongest first day of the batch and, with the new queen video, is running almost level with the bee revival right now.
The channel as a whole ran a little below its usual daily pace, and about 1,000 new subscribers arrived over the week. Among the animal channels near its size, only Tiridan Vee and BoopTV gathered more views over those seven days, while most of the group, from Alveus Sanctuary to Crufts, was quieter than normal.
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What viewers say
I have had bees so cold that they were near death and warmed them in my cupped hand and they walked into their hive in southern Tasmania it can turn from sun to sleet in 10 minutes .❤
@trevorwindle8980See it on YouTubenot a dead bee then.
@ralphmueller3725See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on The Crawl Crew right now
How to deal with the giant hornet invasion58,256 views · 2026-10-04
Why Beekeepers Steal Baby Bees38,134 views · 2026-09-30
How Beekeepers Never Lose Their Queen Bee37,669 views · 2026-10-05
This Queen Bee’s Life Depended on a Cage35,007 views · 2026-10-03
How Ants Get Trapped by a Line33,260 views · 2026-10-01
- Channel
- The Crawl Crew
- Subscribers
- 634,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,461,382
- Videos published this week
- 9
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 119,850
- Views on its first day
- 23,020
The numbers
Here is how The Crawl Crew's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which hornet, native to Asia, became known in the United States as the 'murder hornet' after sightings in Washington state in 2019 and 2020?
The northern giant hornet, once commonly called the Asian giant hornet, was found in Washington state and nicknamed the murder hornet for how it attacks honeybee colonies.
