When Mutated Bees Attack!

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:29 am

Since when was hit a noun? But no, not even in jest would that be very funny..

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:18 am

That's actually some Japanese Hornet just to show you how big they get.

Theirs a video of like 30 of those hornets Killing 30,000 Honey bees.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:42 am

Dr.Cox wrote:That's actually some Japanese Hornet just to show you how big they get.

So what, is it like a taxidermy one or something?

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:56 pm

No its just some Japanese guy with a japanese hornet.

Yea..

Here it is view the slaughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4wRIERp6Vs

MaestroMan · Post by **MaestroMan** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:22 pm

Owned.

Corvette19 · Post by **Corvette19** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:51 pm

Wow, I saw one of those "Cicada Killers" at my lake house, I was like O_O It's an African Bee!!!

Xeno2 · Post by **Xeno2** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:31 am

Dr.Cox wrote:That's actually some Japanese Hornet just to show you how big they get.

Theirs a video of like 10 of those hornets Killing 10,000 Honey bees.

ftfy.
and keep the dbz meme out of it.
Heres that video of 10 asian hornets slaughtering 10,000 bees.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/206326/10 ... oney_bees/

CompKronos · Post by **CompKronos** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:47 am

oh god, Dr.Cox that video scared the fuck out of me.

bees roasting other bees alive hornets ripping off head and bodies.

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:15 am

M715ForLife wrote:
niktheweirdmodder wrote:I Saw 3 of those round my summerhouse in Russia, it was about 1am and we crushed to death with a pair of slippers . That was only because it was in the living room though (the place were food and people were kept.
In soviet russia, you sting bee!

Yes.

Also...That video was epic.

I want to see African Bees against them (on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!

).

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:11 pm

Dr.Cox wrote:No its just some Japanese guy with a japanese hornet.

Yea..

Here it is view the slaughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4wRIERp6Vs

Because of the pressure that these Hornets have put on local Honey Bee populations, many hives have actually developed a new way to stop these killing machines. Hundreds of them swarm a single hornet, and vibrate their wings. By doing this they generate heat, and by directing that heat inwards --towards the hornet-- they can generate temperatures of over 117* F (47*C), which is slightly more heat than the bees can survive.

Wikipedia wrote:When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive it will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honey bees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so will gather near the entrance of the nest and keep it open, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive or allow it to enter on its own. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honey bees surrounds it, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and begin quickly vibrating their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honey bee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). The honey bees can just about tolerate this temperature, but the hornet cannot survive more than 45 °C (113 °F), so it dies. Often several bees perish along with the intruder, but the death of the hornet scout prevents it from summoning reinforcements which would wipe out the colony.

It is amazing to me the incredibly adaptivity and intelligence of the hive mind. This was no slowly developed evolutionary feat, it was devopled "on the fly" (no punnnnn).