30 Hornets vs. 30,000 Bees

[korme]

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

Cool video.

[VPI97]

Now that was an ass-kicking.

[GrantDawg]

Wow. Hornets are bad.

[cthomer5000]

Quite a beatdown. I'm impressed.

[albionmoonlight]

The New Orleans Hornets are not so impressive.

[fantastic flying froggies]

What an awesome video !!! the images are fantastic, the commentary, music and souds simply brilliant !

It actually reminded me of the end of some Starcraft games where I would attack a Zerg base with a dozen battlecruisers and destroy hundreds of targets in a mattter of minutes...

[Dutch]

That was very impressive, thanks!

[sabotai]

Japanese Hornets are one of the most badass animals on the planet.

[JeeberD]

Daaayum...

[korme]

I was rooting for the bees though, damn that sucks for them.

[Axxon]

This is because bees though numerous are not well organized nor are they fighters. They need wasps. At least seven. Seven hungry wasps who are willing to take a little bit of honey for their pay and then they can hold off the evil hornets.

Maybe I've seen a certain movie a bit too much lately.

[fantastic flying froggies]

Attack oct'00 beehive !

Oops, sorry, wrong thread...

[korme]

I recommend watching it a second time, turning the volume down and listening to a song. I watched it again with "Marches and Manuevers" by Thursday (This is a war!) playin and it makes it pretty cool in it's own way.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Attack oct'00 beehive !

Oops, sorry, wrong thread...

Bad idea.

Oct. 00, we're the hornets.

[tucker342]

How the hell did they get those images??

That's simply a incredible video.

[korme]

I read an article on the video, and when they set up the cameras the crew all had to wear full-body protection because the hornets are that deadly.

[sabotai]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ntHornets.html

[Axxon]

Originally Posted by Shorty3281

I read an article on the video, and when they set up the cameras the crew all had to wear full-body protection because the hornets are that deadly.

Come on, I'm not buying this. 30 hornets vs 30k bees ok, but 30 hornets vs a film crew armed with Black Flag. I don't think they're THAT bad ass. Human technology wins again.

[fantastic flying froggies]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Bad idea.

Oct. 00, we're the hornets.

No no, you just won because of sheer numbers...

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

No no, you just won because of sheer numbers...

Well, naturally hornets would also win when they have the larger numbers if they can win as such underdogs...

[Neuqua]

Ick. Bad hornets. Scary hornets.

[MizzouRah]

Unreal... nice linky.


Thanks,

Todd

[thealmighty]

Hornet to 30,000 bees: "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

Bee to 29,999 other bees: "Run Away!"

[MizzouRah]

You would think after watching 20,000 of your buddies getting their bodies ripped to shreds you just might say, "Um, lets get the hell out of here, they can have our honey!"


Todd

[judicial clerk]

The hornets were concerned that the bees were hiding WMDs in thier hive.

[MrBug708]

I doubt they found them though

[pennywisesb]

wow, that was ridiculous, those hornets were bad man, they were ripping the bees in half like it was nothing.

[samifan24]

Go Bees! Those little guys didn't stand a chance.

[MJ4H]

No matter what I do I can't get this to work.

[RawIsDan]

Asshole hornets.

[SirFozzie]

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.

[MizzouRah]

They are eaten deep fried, or even as hornet sashimi.

What kind of dipping sauce do you get?


Todd

[nfg22]

Originally Posted by judicial clerk

The hornets were concerned that the bees were hiding WMDs in thier hive.

I wonder if the home nest of hornets is rioting?

[Ragone]

Good thing baron davis wasn't in that attack.. he'd gotten stung a few times and pulled up lame

[samifan24]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

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.

Does anyone remember the SNL skit with Cameron Diaz where she ate dinner with a guy's family and the guy's younger brother couldn't swallow or chew food? The guy Diaz was with had to chew food, then spit it into the brother's mouth, and eventually, after being disgusted at first, Diaz did it too. It was pretty sick, and of course the first thing that came to mind when I read this.

[MikeVic]

link doesnt work for me.

[JeffNights]

That was too sweet. I love that commentator.

Also, those were some wussy bees, i think i a different spieces of bees woulda have fared better, say the killer africans.

[CraigSca]

I'm sure the Africanized bees would have held up better than the European as well. However, it's my understanding that European bees make honey in much higher quantities than the Africanized. You can imagine then the problem - Africanized bees are much more aggressive, make less honey, and tend to push the European bees out.

[JeffNights]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

I'm sure the Africanized bees would have held up better than the European as well. However, it's my understanding that European bees make honey in much higher quantities than the Africanized. You can imagine then the problem - Africanized bees are much more aggressive, make less honey, and tend to push the European bees out.

All very true.

and definately they woulda help up better, thier aggressiveness, and the fact they do not lose thier stingers helps too.

[Schedule Junkie]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

However, it's my understanding that European bees make honey in much higher quantities than the Africanized.

Actually, from what I've seen and read, it's actually the reverse. One of the reasons African bees were brought to Brazil in 1956 was to try and cross-breed them with the local bee population to boost honey production. In those areas where African bees are now the norm, once beekeepers learned how to deal with them, they are finding that the African bees are producing much more honey. Of course, the drawback is that the African bees are far more foul-tempered than their European counterparts, and thus much more difficult and tricky to work with.

What's amazing is the story behind how the African bees escaped from the hive in Brazil in the first place. The hive had a grill fitted over the entrance, which had openings large enough for the workers to pass through, but too narrow for the larger queen, thus keeping the queens trapped inside. The scientists in charge were away on the day when an outside beekeeper comes to visit. With no one around, he decides to be courteous and tend to the hives. On the African hive, he sees the queen is laying eggs. Since a queen never leaves the hive when laying, he sees no point to the grill and removes it. With the grill gone, the queen soon after left the hive: African queens behave differently from their European sisters.

Isn't it interesting how a big problem can arise out of so simple a thing as not telling someone about why a metal grill was in place?

Originally Posted by JeffNights

... and the fact they do not lose thier stingers helps too.

This is incorrect, they lose their stingers, just as all bees do. The venom in their stingers is no more potent than that of European bees. What the African bees have is extreme aggressiveness - they will swarm in defence of their hive very rapidly and attack fiercely, sometimes pursuing the target of their wrath for a quarter mile or more from the hive. Hiding under water won't help, as the bees will remain nearby.

The victim of an attack will recieve far more stings from African bees than they would from European honey bees. Receiving 8,000 stings from an attack is not unusual; a student killed in Costa Rica by African bees suffered 10,000 stings. Once an African hive is disturbed, the bees can remain aggitated for as long as 24 hours.

The reason they've managed to spread so quickly is twofold: first, they are not picky about where to set up a hive. Any suitable enclosure will suffice. The second reason is that they swarm, i.e. new queens leave the hive to start new colonies, several times more per year than do European bees.


So, given all this, I'd say a battle between these Japanese hornets and African bees would make for an interesting fight...

[LionsFan10]

Yo,

That was HARDCORE, I can't believe how huge those hornets were. 'Effin amazing how fast they demolised those bee's.

[judicial clerk]

The video reminds me of the Lakers/Spurs series

[Honolulu_Blue]

Ever see the movie "The Swarm" about a well, a massive swarm of African killer bees that sweep across America, killing all in their path? Michael Caine is in it. The bees end up in Houtson and the people basically end up burning Houston to the ground in an effort to combat the bees with flame throwers. Anyway, they really should have just hired a few hundred hornets to come in and take care of business.

[sabotai]

So, given all this, I'd say a battle between these Japanese hornets and African bees would make for an interesting fight...

The problem is, the stinger of the killer bee is just the same as the stinger of a european honeybee. So basically, without a better weapon, the killer bee would be just as defenseless as the honeybee. The only difference is that it'll probably look cooler. But the end result would probably end up being the same.

One interesting fact is that the Japanese Hornet kills more people per year in Japan than the killer bee has killed since it escaped into the wild.

[Franklinnoble]

Those hornets are badass... I wonder if I can buy a few on the Internet someplace and then breed an army of these fierce monsters...

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

Those hornets are badass... I wonder if I can buy a few on the Internet someplace and then breed an army of these fierce monsters...

...then you would be stronger and more powerful than ever.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

...then you would be stronger and more powerful than ever.

Once I receive my order of male enhancement supplements, you may be right...

[GoldenEagle]

FOFC vs the mad hornets...

Hmmmmm....

[GoldenEagle]

Dola -

I am thinking or renaming my CFL team the Japanese Hornets.

[wig]

I think those were bionic hornets.