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23 Jul 2012, 6:41 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXZOKI6Uv9A[/youtube]


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23 Jul 2012, 6:45 pm

Oh my god... There's so many of them. x.x


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23 Jul 2012, 7:24 pm

If a person walked through that he or she would be dead in seconds!! 8O


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23 Jul 2012, 7:28 pm

Eeeeeeww!!

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23 Jul 2012, 7:33 pm

AspieOtaku wrote:
If a person walked through that he or she would be dead in seconds!! 8O


Oh yea definitely. They would totally OD on bee venom... As I watched this, I was thinking about a particular scenario. What if the window in their vehicle strangely malfunctioned, and the bees just poured in by the thousands..... That would really suck...



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23 Jul 2012, 8:15 pm

Last summer wasps were making a nest right outside my front door and I had to spray the nest to help destroy it. It took some courage to go outside and spray a wasp's nest that had a few wasps swarming around it, but I did it and I did wear a scarf to cover my face just in case. Phew. :P


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23 Jul 2012, 8:35 pm

I was expecting birds, never heard the term "yellow jacket" for wasp before.

That's pretty amazing, I'd love to see it IRL.



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23 Jul 2012, 9:23 pm

that's terrifying



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23 Jul 2012, 10:14 pm

I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole.


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23 Jul 2012, 10:19 pm

Strangely just looking as it makes me want to pick up a stick. What could possibly go wrong. :chin:



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24 Jul 2012, 12:25 am

johnny77 wrote:
Strangely just looking as it makes me want to pick up a stick. What could possibly go wrong. :chin:


Agreed :)



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24 Jul 2012, 1:24 am

Normally I vote to leave nature alone, but this needs to be nuked from orbit


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24 Jul 2012, 2:46 am

There is a difference between a yellow jacket and your typical wasp. They are about 2-3x the size and have much more aggression than a wasp. You do NOT want to screw with these things as they come after you in swarms and will chase you for something like a half a mile. You can't out run them as they are very fast. You can't just dive under water as they will wait for you to surface. They make killer bees look like mosquitoes by comparison. People get attacked by them in Florida all the time because they build under ground nests that get very large. This is because Florida winters are not usually cold enough to kill them and so the nests can grow to a phenomenal size. Once someone tries to mow the lawn near the nest, they get swarmed and killed.


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24 Jul 2012, 3:08 am

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There is a difference between a yellow jacket and your typical wasp. They are about 2-3x the size and have much more aggression than a wasp. You do NOT want to screw with these things as they come after you in swarms and will chase you for something like a half a mile. You can't out run them as they are very fast. You can't just dive under water as they will wait for you to surface. They make killer bees look like mosquitoes by comparison. People get attacked by them in Florida all the time because they build under ground nests that get very large. This is because Florida winters are not usually cold enough to kill them and so the nests can grow to a phenomenal size. Once someone tries to mow the lawn near the nest, they get swarmed and killed.

Oh right, wow. I looked up yellow jacked on wikipedia and it just said it was a word North Americans use for "wasp".



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24 Jul 2012, 4:17 am

IF only I had a bee suit. The honey would be delicious and nutritious... I wouldn't kill them. They are such a valuable source of honey I bet.


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24 Jul 2012, 4:32 am

Wow that's uhm quite scary, what if the bees got angry, would they have been able to puncture the glass x_x? The wasp nest we had a few years ago is nothing compared to that.