*VIDEO* Hornets vs Bees

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Citrix
I saw this on some discovery show. The bees have figured out a way to fight back. a bunch of them will jump on a wasp and start vibrating their bodies. how how they figured out that by a bunch of them vibrating around a wasp it will raise the temp of the wasps body beyond a critical level and kill it. If i remember correctly the bees have acutally won a few battles with this tactic.

Unless I'm mistaken, isn't that the "dogpile" tactic that people in the thread have been referring too?

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy525

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

how many hornet stings does it take to kill a human?

For some people just one sting can be lethal. It varies from person to person. Luckily I am not allergic to stings!

Story time!

Many years ago during a firewood harvest I had a log roll down a hill and the end went into a yellow jacket's nest. In southern PA they make their nests in the ground.

I didn't see the danger until I pulled the log out and the bottom was "carpeted" with yellow bees! (I cut the logs roughly truck bed length to haul back to the farm house for sawing stove length and splitting) Despite running frantically, I was stung from my ankles to my nuts, over 20 stings in all! The venom did have an effect on my balance and vision and I was in top physical condition at the time. The doctors said that was what probably saved my life or prevented a complication developing.

That has to be my worst encounter with insects, and I hope it isn't repeated.

It should be an interesting next few weeks with these cicada's as both of my dogs will probably be eating dozens of them a day and they will be getting in the house, etc.

They are quite harmless and totally incapable of inflicting any kind of pain to people but my wife is terrified of them because of their looks and size. I'll have to keep all my shotgun shells out of site so the house doesn't get shot up! :Q

Cheers!

Yellow jacket stings aren't that pleasant either. I had a cousin that was trying to knock down an old rotten stump about head high with a baseball bat. Come to find out it had occupants. He got stung 8 times & I got it 5 times. My sister who was allergic to bee stings somehow remained unscathed

I stepped on a yellow jacket hive twice when i was a kid (22 stings the first time, 10 the second) no a plesent experence....

Same here... I stepped on a nest in a pumpkin patch, and they stung me so bad my eye was swollen SHUT and I couldnt' see.... anytime I find them now I kill them.

 

[knoxweather]

That's an awesome film. It is like some horror movie for bees.... lol

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Same here... I stepped on a nest in a pumpkin patch, and they stung me so bad my eye was swollen SHUT and I couldnt' see.... anytime I find them now I kill them.

Thats racial profiling. ...er, special profiling. either way its wrong.

 

[Crucial]

Nice while looking through my temporary internet files for the video I found this.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: csaddict
Nice while looking through my temporary internet files for the video I found this.

That's nice, I still have the one where she's wearing a big hat and exposed her nip. It was posted a few days ago and got locked and deleted.

 

[KevinH]

Pepsei - You have GOT to hoook a brotha up with that pic.

 

[alocurto]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Shizit...

 

[Triumph]

To the Beemobile!

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Actaeon
From where I got it from...

That was amazing.
They said 30 hornets killed 30,000 bees in 3 hrs.
Thats:
1000 bees per hornet;
333 bees per hour per hornet;
5.5 bees per minute per hornet;

My brother told me those Hornets are 2 inches long, with a wing span of 3 inches. They are native to Japan. But Japan didn't have any honey bees, so they brought some European Honey Bees over. Because they never evolved together, the Bee has no natural defenses against the Hornet.

I had heard that the Japanese honey bee came up wtih a defense, which is essentially a dog pile on the scout hornet. They trap him under all the bees, then the bees start wiggling. The body heat generated by doing this reaches high enough to kill the scout.
But maybe it was a different bee form somewhere else.

Exactly! Evolution is working up a defense.

Japanese honey bees annhilate the scout in one HUGE SWARM formation. They attack at precisely the moment the scout iis comfortably in the bee territory.

 

[Valhalla1]

mirror ?

 

[KhoiFather]

Anymore videos like these?

 

[MAME]

WHERE CAN I GET THE VIDEO?!?!?!?!??!

PLEASE!

 

[fs5]

http://www.spicytuna.net/gm/archives/00000344.htm
^ mirror

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: dr150

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Actaeon
From where I got it from...

That was amazing.
They said 30 hornets killed 30,000 bees in 3 hrs.
Thats:
1000 bees per hornet;
333 bees per hour per hornet;
5.5 bees per minute per hornet;

My brother told me those Hornets are 2 inches long, with a wing span of 3 inches. They are native to Japan. But Japan didn't have any honey bees, so they brought some European Honey Bees over. Because they never evolved together, the Bee has no natural defenses against the Hornet.

I had heard that the Japanese honey bee came up wtih a defense, which is essentially a dog pile on the scout hornet. They trap him under all the bees, then the bees start wiggling. The body heat generated by doing this reaches high enough to kill the scout.
But maybe it was a different bee form somewhere else.

Exactly! Evolution is working up a defense.

Japanese honey bees annhilate the scout in one HUGE SWARM formation. They attack at precisely the moment the scout iis comfortably in the bee territory.

Heh, I actually learned that from a GRE question... Goddam* you GRE!!!!!!