Thread: Swarm of bees

Lucky for us, we don't have the aggressive species here.
I once saw a documentary about hornets. Truly frightening.

Originally Posted by poona

Just as well they weren't Africanised.

I'm like a big Jessy when it comes to bees. I run a mile when they come near me. It's an irrational phobia.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Lucky for us, we don't have the aggressive species here.
I once saw a documentary about hornets. Truly frightening.

Hornets would scare the hell out of me too. We have a ton of Yellow Jackets so I'm pretty used to them.

As I understand it even Africanized ones aren't aggressive when they are swarming. They are to busy searching for a new house and don't have any young to take care of so they don't care about much so they don't sting.

I remember when I was little we had a large swarm of them in one of our trash cans on the side of our house, ended up having a beekeeper come and collect them.

Giant Hornets are native to Southern Japan and kill quite a few people each year. I remember years ago when I was there walking down a strret in some small town I heard what sounded like a helicopter overhead and all of a sudden people just start running leaving the area all except me of course and suddenly this thing lands on the sidewalk in front of me. It was the biggest and meanest looking bee I ever saw in my life. It must have been at least 5 inches. I got the message fast.They are kind of like the Tyrannosauris Rex of the insect world. I've seen one dispatch and eat a preying mantis in seconds.

[quote=thebigspendur;218655]It was the biggest and meanest looking bee I ever saw in my life. It must have been at least 5 inches. quote]

i saw a discovery channel program about those things, way cool, they can take about 6-10 of them and destroy an entire hive of regular old bees.

used to have a guy back home who was a bee keeper and we used to get honey form him all the time now the stuff in the stores just doesnt cut it anymore, there is nothing like honey straight from the bees