Have bees ever been used in warfare?

I've never come across the use of bees in catapults before. Appian mentions that the defenders of Themiscyra defended against Lucullus by breaking into his siege tunnels and releasing swarms of bees into the tunnels, which attacked the workers. Apparently this use of bees had been documented before--Aeneas Tacticus claims that when breaking into enemy siege tunnels you can smoke the workers out and that some people have even released bees into the tunnels, though he does not mention who. But Appian also claims that the defenders of Themiscyra released bears and wild beasts into the tunnels, which I find more than a bit fanciful. I did a little searching through my university's system for references of bees being used in warfare, particularly in catapults, and they're pretty much all from beekeepers or naturalists studying bees. None of them, from what I could tell, had any background in Classics. Like I said, in all my years of reading Greek and Latin I've never come across beehives or live bees being launched out of catapults. If these people do have a source somewhere I've missed it, which means it must be in a very unimportant source that is usually ignored (or is from Pliny, to whom I paid almost no attention because he's boring and a notorious bullshit artist--if their source is Pliny it's almost like an admission that it's untrue). I've found a great deal of totally unsourced claims from naturalists (the most absurd, but possibly the most often used of these uncited claims is that the Romans fired beehives off ships--how, I ask, would they manage to get enough bees on a boat, and how did the bees not freak the fuck out?). The only reference I can find at all to insects being fired from engines or anything like that is in Herodian, which tells you right away that it's unreliable (to quote the OCD's words on Herodian's History: "Moralizing and rhetorical, his work is often unreliable, although his value increases with his contemporary knowledge." What that means is that unless Cassius Dio also says that something in Herodian happened we generally assume that Herodian made it up). Herodian claims that the defenders of Hatra dropped pots full of "stinging insects" down on Severus' army. Herodian never claims that they're bees, though, although I suppose the point is rather academic whether they were bees or some kind of other nasty six-legged creature. In any case I find reliance on Herodian a bit silly--Herodian regularly makes some...colorful claims. That's it, those are the only references I could find. I find launching bees out of catapults rather absurd for the Romans, though, and I don't know of anybody who takes the idea seriously. Besides the logistical problems of getting the bees there, there are all kinds of issues. What's to stop the bees from freaking out while their hives are being handled and stinging everyone in the Roman camp? And, why bees? The Romans had the most advanced artillery weapons in antiquity, and the most disciplined and well-organized (not to mention largest) military force for centuries. Yet we are supposed to believe that they resorted to so primitive a tactic as to launch bees at their enemies, when bombarding them with stones and other missiles undoubtedly would've been at least as effective and much less dangerous to the attackers themselves. It seems the stuff of fantasy, and I can see no reason to think why it would be anything but imaginative nonsense

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