Giant hornets! Giant hornets!

Flippy_D · Sat 08/05/2004 22:43:41

Some seriously painful ouchies dealt out as 30 Giant Hornets annihilate a hive of ~30,000 European bees.

Sadistically horrific, and disturbing. But it's only bees, I suppose.

Scummbuddy · Sat 08/05/2004 22:46:33

hmm. i dont think i have the right codec or something. all i get is a lightgray box where the movie should be playing, but i do get sound, and the narrator sounds pretty good and enthusiastic.

Domino · Sat 08/05/2004 23:49:22

Those poor Bee's.Ã,Â

I hate bee's, so i couldn't care less about them.

But yes. A somewhat disturbing video.

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 08/05/2004 23:50:04

We must stop them before they take over the world.

I found that rather disturbing, even if it was 'only bees'

shbaz · Sun 09/05/2004 00:02:23

Hehe, makes it seem really dramatic, even though if I saw it in real life I'd probably just shrug and keep walking, unless the bees came after me, in which case I'd run.

LordHart · Sun 09/05/2004 00:33:39

So whats a hornet? Is that like a wasp or something?

Evil · Sun 09/05/2004 00:42:24

A hornet is basicly a wasp but more agressive.

I thought the movie was interesting. Thank god I live in Iowa where the worst we have are timber spiders.

Kweepa · Sun 09/05/2004 02:26:31

I saw that on the National Geographic channel a while back. It looks just like Starship troopers! Little bees clinging to the backs of flying hornets, etc...

Some of the other info in the NG film was interesting:
The hornets are Japanese, and the bees are European imports.
Japanese bees kill the hornet scouts by swarming over them and vibrating up to 113 fahrenheit - the hornet dies at 112F and the bees at 114F.
The hornet sting contains 13 different nasty chemicals, and a sting is usually fatal. [EDIT - ok, maybe not usually fatal, but can be fatal.]
There was also a funny bit where a Japanese hornet researcher dug up a queen during the winter from a little hollow under a tree and cradled her in his hand and stroked her, before tucking her back into bed.

LGM · Sun 09/05/2004 02:33:33

I smell an Oscar.. Or a Golden Globe even.. Maybe two or three!

hehe.. I like how this was done.. You could picture this as a war epic so easily.

Is there a higher resolution version out there somewhere that I can download?

Haddas · Sun 09/05/2004 08:59:14

Waah! I can't see it :'(

I really want to see that, since I'm fairly interested in most junk.

Fuzzpilz · Sun 09/05/2004 11:31:29

Some myth counterage: hornets in general are in fact much less aggressive than smaller wasps (unless you provoke them, of course). Also, their sting is almost certainly not fatal unless you're allergic.

veryweirdguy · Sun 09/05/2004 11:33:06

That still doesn't stop us from being completely scared of this video though.

Good find Flip, as always.

Pet Terry · Sun 09/05/2004 11:46:44

Nice video. I hate bees and usually when I watch this kind of videos I get the feeling that something small is climbing up my body...

Haddas · Sun 09/05/2004 11:54:48

Quoteusually when I watch this kind of videos I get the feeling that something small is climbing up my body...

You get an erection?!?

Kweepa · Sun 09/05/2004 15:00:55

Quote from: Fuzzpilz on Sun 09/05/2004 11:31:29
Some myth counterage: hornets in general are in fact much less aggressive than smaller wasps (unless you provoke them, of course). Also, their sting is almost certainly not fatal unless you're allergic.

These are Japanese giant hornets though...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

Fuzzpilz · Sun 09/05/2004 15:35:22

Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Sun 09/05/2004 15:00:55
These are Japanese giant hornets though...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

Their venom is much more powerful/painful than that of European hornets, but it's still very rarely lethal except to people with a wasp venom allergy.