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*VIDEO* Hornets vs Bees

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These hornets have massive and powerful mandibles (jaws) and could sever a CAT5 cable instantly


Now that sound like some serious Bull$hit to me, give me some proof please.

BTW the video also made me very sad, but it was kinda cool.
 
I like giant hornets. Supposely, you can use them to make medicinal wines. When I was little, I remember seeing one the size of my fist. They are more poisonous than regular yellow jackets.
 
I am calling PETA!

Or is it PETI(nsects)

There has to be some organization... There always is.


...Poor bees 🙁 they looked so peaceful.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
poor bee's, i like bees. takes something like their entire life to make 1/4th of a teaspoon of honey for me.
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yeah... and without them who's feeding Winnie the Pooh?


Originally posted by: Nohr
Originally posted by: Nohr
My mirror - 17.18MB

AT only please, I don't have infinite bandwidth.
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Bump, I've still got plenty of bandwidth left. 🙂
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NEVER! never admit you have that! 😛 🙂 😱
 
Originally posted by: Crazymofo
what makes that vid freak me out is I had a hornet land 2 inches from my face last night when I was laying in bed! For some reason he wasn't flying away so I grabbed an empty cup and trapped him... he didnt like it and started running laps around the parameter of the cup.. I got him onto a book still under the cup and threw him outside... freaked me out then and makes it even worse now cause I have no idea where he came from!! :Q
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They are coming from the 2 foot hornet hive you have in your attic... 😱

I got stung by a Japanese Hornet one time in the ear when I was young. It looked like I had an orange growing out of my ear. It hurt like a SOB and was swollen that way for hours before the swelling started to go down...

A gallon of gas, a match and a nice pair of running shoes fixed that problem....Revenge is sweet
 
Originally posted by: shuttleteam
These hornets have massive and powerful mandibles (jaws) and could sever a CAT5 cable instantly.
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hahahahahahahaha.

EDIT: Looks like Renob thought this was odd as well. Sounds like something the father in Big Fish would say. It can be hard cutting a CAT5 cable with a pair of scissors.

Anyways, I bet this would be a great show to watch...insect vs insect, kinda like what they do with animals on Discovery, but without the played out monster garage stuff. Jus tthe strengths and weakness, then maybe a bot match.
 
Originally posted by: shuttleteam
how many hornet stings does it take to kill a human?
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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!
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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
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: shuttleteam
how many hornet stings does it take to kill a human?
Click to expand...

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!
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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
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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....
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: andylawcc
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
poor bee's, i like bees. takes something like their entire life to make 1/4th of a teaspoon of honey for me.
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yeah... and without them who's feeding Winnie the Pooh?


Originally posted by: Nohr
Originally posted by: Nohr
My mirror - 17.18MB

AT only please, I don't have infinite bandwidth.
Click to expand...
Bump, I've still got plenty of bandwidth left. 🙂
Click to expand...

NEVER! never admit you have that! 😛 🙂 😱
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its 1/12 actually
 
hahahahahahahaha.

EDIT: Looks like Renob thought this was odd as well. Sounds like something the father in Big Fish would say. It can be hard cutting a CAT5 cable with a pair of scissors.

Anyways, I bet this would be a great show to watch...insect vs insect, kinda like what they do with animals on Discovery, but without the played out monster garage stuff. Jus tthe strengths and weakness, then maybe a bot match.
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Ok perhaps not instantly, (but it seems like an instant especially if that CAT5 is on comcrap's high latency network!) but there is no question they can do this.

We had them very bad two years ago and the damage done to orchard trees was incredible. They can strip the bark off the branches like they have a potato peeler on their face. Those mandibles are incredible, I have caught many of them and experimented but I never did put any transducers in to measure their bite strength.

They don't need to be able to sting. The scary thing is since the stinger and the pincher are on opposite ends they can sting and bite at the same time. If mister jackass wants a real challenge, he should put 20 of them in his boxers!

Cheers!
 
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