Japanese Hornets ... A Honey Bee Holocaust

[OnePremier]

Jesus Christ... Jim wasn't kidding about these things...

http://www.bigducky.com/funny_extreme_videos/bees-vs-hornets.wmv

[Harvey_Birdman]

Holy mother of god.

"30 Japanese Hornets can wipe out a colony of 30,000 European Honey bees in just under 3 hours." - From the video.

http://www.vespa-crabro.de/grbilder/hornissenstachel.htm

and

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

[Vanillathunder]

What's really crazy is how bees have come up with a defense.. tehy lure the hornet in and crawl all over it.. by vibrating themselves, they raise the temperature of the hornet, basically cooking it to death.

[PrncssNikki]

I fucking hate hornets. They suck.

[Beeman99]

What's really crazy is how bees have come up with a defense.. tehy lure the hornet in and crawl all over it.. by vibrating themselves, they raise the temperature of the hornet, basically cooking it to death.

Bees are amazing little critters, I couldn't imagine not being a beekeeper. I know people hate them, but I've never had anyone that worked for me say they hated the bees, most really enjoyed it.

[OnePremier]

Bees are amazing little critters, I couldn't imagine not being a beekeeper. I know people hate them, but I've never had anyone that worked for me say they hated the bees, most really enjoyed it.

Wow, and I thought it was just a clever name.

[Multiple Miggs]

Screw the bees, giant hornets are known to kill people too. They inject a flesh dissolving venom into their victims. There's an awesome show on the National Geographic Channel about those little pricks, "Hornets from Hell". It's on at 2am tonight.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/popup/200602011900.html

[Beeman99]

Wow, and I thought it was just a clever name.

Well, it's still clever. It just means something now :icon_mrgr

[OnePremier]

Video's much smoother from here... the national geographic website...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

[GLENN_THE_TOOL]

i hate all insects with stingers: wasps, hornets, bees, all of them. every year around spring, these big black carpenter bees would gather around the front porch of our house. there would always be 6, 8, sometimes a dozen of them out there, and they'd zip around and fight each other, which was actually entertaining to watch when two or so would furiously tangle and they would go into a midair spin. i dunno what attracted them (does fiberglass insulation attract them?) but they always came back no matter how many we killed.

i was scared to death of them as a kid; i would have to sprint up my front steps with my keys ready so i could fly through the door. a few times i actually had to ask a neighbor to escort me to my door because they'd fucking divebomb you. even weeding the bushes and mowing the lawn was like war, you needed to fight these things off with a hose or several cans of bug spray to kill as many of them as possible or at least scare them off long enough to finish. those little fuckers are one of the few reasons i'm glad to live in an apartment now.

[PrncssNikki]

When my sister was 10 she was jumping down the stairs to my aunt's porch and not knowing there was a wasp nest under the step, shook it. She was attacked by 15 of the fuckers and ended up getting stung all over her legs, arms & face.

Mother fuckers.

[Beeman99]

i hate all insects with stingers: wasps, hornets, bees, all of them. every year around spring, these big black carpenter bees would gather around the front porch of our house. there would always be 6, 8, sometimes a dozen of them out there, and they'd zip around and fight each other, which was actually entertaining to watch when two or so would furiously tangle and they would go into a midair spin. i dunno what attracted them (does fiberglass insulation attract them?) but they always came back no matter how many we killed.

i was scared to death of them as a kid; i would have to sprint up my front steps with my keys ready so i could fly through the door. a few times i actually had to ask a neighbor to escort me to my door because they'd fucking divebomb you. even weeding the bushes and mowing the lawn was like war, you needed to fight these things off with a hose or several cans of bug spray to kill as many of them as possible or at least scare them off long enough to finish. those little fuckers are one of the few reasons i'm glad to live in an apartment now.

Always keep Raid on hand for wasps. If you find a nest, go back to it when it's dark and spray the shit out of, that will take care of it quick and easy. You'll find bumblebees are very gentle and docile. They hurt when they sting, but they very seldom do.

Honeybees are a fear of most people, but they will leave you alone if you leave them alone. They are important to the production of fruit, almonds, gardens, flowers, certain oils, etc. Remember bees don't like fast movement, vibration, high humidity, perfumes, dark colors, or the smell of booze.

[GLENN_THE_TOOL]

there was no carpenter bee nest under our porch, i looked several times because for some time i thought there was. for some reason, they were attracted to that area or something in the vacinity. even after the fiberglass underneath the porch had decayed and fallen down, they still showed up every spring like fucking clockwork. i tried spraying down the area of the porch they normally gathered the night before, hoping the smell would deter them the next day, but they kept showing up.

[Beeman99]

there was no carpenter bee nest under our porch, i looked several times because for some time i thought there was. for some reason, they were attracted to that area or something in the vacinity. even after the fiberglass underneath the porch had decayed and fallen down, they still showed up every spring like fucking clockwork. i tried spraying down the area of the porch they normally gathered the night before, hoping the smell would deter them the next day, but they kept showing up.

once there is a nest there, they will keep coming back to it, doesn't matter how long it's been since there were bees in it last or what smells you spray to deter them. Best bet is to spray them with raid to kill them, but get underneath there and pull out anything left of a nest.

[Ego]

Blacks gathering around a front porch.....surprise surprise.

What gets me about these nature videos is how they manage to get all of this stuff on film. Like, even all that stuff going on in the nest entrance and all, from all those different angles of view, without ONCE seeing one of the other cameras that is recording the event. I understand that it's not so hard anymore given the technology today, but still.

[Lambo]

wow. that musta been what the jews felt like during WWII.

[Hudson]

Only bugs that freak me out are: those huge poisonous Cenetpides, Those Bird Killer Tarantulas (up to 1 foot across), Brown Recluse Spiders: one bite and you can lose your life horribly from tissue death. (Al Jorgenson Story)

[BIV]

Okay.....I'm scared.

*note to self*
If you ever see a pile of dead, headless bees, run for your life.

[OnePremier]

For some reason that video reminds me of the Klendathu scene from Starship Troopers. :icon_conf