Hornet vs bees.

[ND66]

Cool Video!

Hornet vs bees

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[Jessterw]

Wow, now that's brutal.

"You sting me, I'm ripping off your head..."

[TransformX]

Makes you want to do the exact kind of massacre to the hornets.
Or simply fill their nest with fireants and see how tough they are then..

[ND66]

I just find it amazing how the video was taken.


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[Claymonkey]

That was impressive. Problem with using a man made bee hive is you probably can't use that location again unless you get rid of the hornet's nest.

[Jessterw]

Makes you want to do the exact kind of massacre to the hornets.
Or simply fill their nest with fireants and see how tough they are then..

Seen a few clips of what a swarm of fireants (and some of their meaner cousins) can do to a wasp nest, so I imagine the result of their assault on a hornet nest would have equally devastating results.

Though, due to a mutual understanding, I wouldn't be rooting for the ants

[The PIT]

Now we want African Killer Bees V Hornets.

[TnT]

As always anything involving animals I gotta find out more and so:

Oddly enough I've had some of this.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html

Adult hornets feed their young by chewing the flesh of their victims into a gooey paste that the offspring devour. The larvae are well fed, and in turn provide the adults with a powerful energy-boosting cocktail in their saliva.

It's called vespa amino acid mixture, or VAAM. Regular doses of VAAM from the larvae give giant hornets their incredible stamina and energy—when pursuing prey, they can travel a range of 60 miles (96 kilometers) at speeds reaching 25 miles per hour.

The incredible effects of VAAM have not gone unnoticed in Japan: The country's latest sports drink is based on this "hornet power." It contains a synthetic form of components in the hornet larval saliva, which is touted as performance-boosting. Japanese gold medalist and world-record marathon runner Naoko Takahashi declared that VAAM gave her an edge in the Olympic Games held in Sydney, Australia.

In Japan's mountain villages, the hornets are valued as part of the basic diet. They are eaten deep fried, or even as hornet sashimi.

No need for fireants, evolution nature will find a way...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the defenses of honeybees, whose correspondingly small sting cannot inflict much damage against such a large predator as the giant hornet, the Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) has evolved an ingenious method of defending against the much larger predator.

When a hornet scout locates a Japanese honeybee hive and approaches the nest, the scout will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honeybees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so honeybees will gather near the entrance of the nest, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honeybees surround the hornet, 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 honeybee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). Though the honeybees can tolerate such a temperature, it is fatal to the intruder, which can handle a maximum temperature of about 45 °C (113 °F), and is effectively baked to death by the large mass of vibrating bees.

[TransformX]

Neat!

[Jammrock]

I saw this on ... PBS I think, several months ago. Very interesting stuff. The Queen Fig special was fasinating too.

[Dr Mordrid]

You want something nasty try paper wasps. They can sting almost forever, their venom is nasty and they are as aggressive as hell in these parts