Kick ass bees (video!)

[Satan]

Yet another beheading video:

http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/magazine/pursuit/200301/movie/movie_mp_b.html

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[Satan]

Downloadable version:

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~chriseng/m01_hi.wmv


BTW -- all the honeybees are named Eric

[WCP]

<sniffle> :'(

[Satan]

sniffle?? ???

I thought you'd get off on all that carnage.

[WCP]

sniffle?? ???

I thought you'd get off on all that carnage.


Bees = good
wasps = bad

What do wasps contribute, btw, to the garden? I think they eat beneficial insects. Same with hornets.

[ponygurl]

I have been swarmed by hornets..
I'd rather have dental surgery without freezing.

[ModusPonens]

Bees = good
wasps = bad

What do wasps contribute, btw, to the garden? I think they eat beneficial insects. Same with hornets.


Wasps and hornets are equal opportunity hunters. They generally eat more arthropod pests than they do beneficials simply because there are usually lots more stink bugs, colorado potato beetles, leaf-footed bugs, squash vine boreres, etc in your garden than there are lady bird beetles or praying manti.

[NorNec]

I have been swarmed by hornets..
I'd rather have dental surgery without freezing.



Freezing? is that what the Canadien Health Care has come to? Big deal, dip this swab outside and give me a drill.

[kathleen]

Freezing? is that what the Canadien Health Care has come to

Canadien? ???

[kathleen]

Wasps and hornets are equal opportunity hunters. They generally eat more arthropod pests than they do beneficials simply because there are usually lots more stink bugs, colorado potato beetles, leaf-footed bugs, squash vine boreres, etc in your garden than there are lady bird beetles or praying manti.


Generally, yes.

Are you an entomologist? :)

[ModusPonens]

Generally, yes.

Are you an entomologist? :)


Dad is a PhD entomologist. He worked at LSU for 40 years. Some of it rubbed off.

[McBp_2003]

Bees suck.

[MidnightRider]

I hate bees,wasps and hornets. I was stung by a bee 3 times, got stung by a wasp 5 times, and I hope to god I never get stung by a hornet.

[ModusPonens]

Bees suck.


I don't particularly care for bumble bees, but without them, blueberries wouldn't grow in the South. I like blueberry pies, jams, jellies, and cobbler. I'll live with the bumble bees.

I couldn't live without honey. Dad and I raised bees when I was a kid. Honey bees are no big deal.

Wasps, yellow jackets, hornets...<hate shiver>

[wendy]

The Japanese Honeybee's Thermal Defense
The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees.This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees.

http://www.muenster.org/hornissenschutz/manda.htm

The European bees must be from France.

[ModusPonens]

The Japanese Honeybee's Thermal Defense
The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees.This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees.

http://www.muenster.org/hornissenschutz/manda.htm

The European bees must be from France.


I saw the video for that very thing on AP or Discovery or one of those. If those hornets ever get introduced here in the states, I'll lead the charge to bring back chlordane.

[BostonGirl]

Bees suck.
Yes they do suck. I was once stung on my nose by one. Hurt like hell.

[Julia]

I'm sure my Room 101 is filled with bees and all sorts of other nasty flying, buzzing, stinging, things. :o Yikes!

[McBp_2003]

I'm sure my Room 101 is filled with bees and all sorts of other nasty flying, buzzing, stinging, things. :o Yikes!


Bug Bomb it...or if you have connections to GWB nuke it.