Giant Hornets Vs Bees

Retales · May 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">30 vs 30000</div> Man, that's brutal. I feel sorry for those poor bees <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Stream: mms://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

<a href='http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html' target='_blank'>Info on those killers</a>

RaVe · May 2004

The streaming link doesn't work -_-

panda_de_malheureux · May 2004

Me too ): lets kill all the hornets, the evil basterds *cries.

pardzh · May 2004

Yeah, I was waiting for this to get up here.

Pretty amazing what those hornets can do. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

Stakhanov · May 2004

Hmm. TSA catpacks must contain hornet saliva <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Nil_IQ · May 2004

I'm glad the link is dead, anything that buzzes scares the crap out of me.

Retales · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil_IQ @ May 10 2004, 07:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I'm glad the link is dead, anything that buzzes scares the crap out of me.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Works for me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Aegeri · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duff-Man @ May 10 2004, 05:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I was waiting for this to get up here.

Pretty amazing what those hornets can do. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Not really, it is just that the hornets exploit the fact the bees are incredibly deficient in the tactics department. If you observe video footage of such battles, you will see that the bees attack the hornets one at a time in single file (or what would be if you analysed the battle). Now this works fairly well for some creatures, like spiders or other potential threats which don't particularly fight back that well, but hornets are a tad bit too clever. The hornet simply waits and chops each bee apart one by one until they run out of defenders to kill. They then raid the nest and kill the queen, taking the ultimate prize-the juicy larvae!

Japanese bees however would be much better opponents. Instead of idiotically attacking a far superior foe one by one, the japanese bees swarm over the hornet, but oddly do not sting it. Instead, they pile on top of it and cover it in a living mat of buzzing bees. This causes the internal temperature, where the hornet is, to rise above 48 degrees celcius, which ends up killing the hornet. Once dead they then go back to whatever they were doing.

Much more efficient.

The above effect incidently, is due to European bees having not evolved alongside hornets and having no significant defences against them. Japanese bees however have, and can quite readily deal with them. I really want to go to Japan and have a look at them for myself to be honest.

Sycophant · May 2004

Hmm, interesting camera-work. I figured at least some of it was fake (ie: convenient dramatic shots of the hornets staring down the bees), but still very very interesting.

As for getting the link to work : it didn't work for me in Opera, but worked fine through IE. You can also open the file through Windows Media Player.

UnderDOG · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aegeri @ May 10 2004, 08:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Japanese bees however would be much better opponents. Instead of idiotically attacking a far superior foe one by one, the japanese bees swarm over the hornet, but oddly do not sting it. Instead, they pile on top of it and cover it in a living mat of buzzing bees. This causes the internal temperature, where the hornet is, to rise above 48 degrees celcius, which ends up killing the hornet. Once dead they then go back to whatever they were doing.
 </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Death by body heat?

Aegeri · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> figured at least some of it was fake (ie: convenient dramatic shots of the hornets staring down the bees), but still very very interesting.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

No, that is pretty much what happens. The hornets are pretty smart and will happily wait for the bees to come marching forward single file to their doom.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Death by body heat? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Correct, I believe it denatures proteins and actually causes the hornets blood to boil, pretty much killing it very dead.

RuBy · May 2004

Oh man that scared the crap out of me. Though I think I have seen a hornet-looking thing that was bigger than that. It kills tarantulas then drags it somewhere safe and puts its babies inside it. Then when they grow they eat their way out of it.

Aegeri · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Though I think I have seen a hornet-looking thing that was bigger than that</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Yeah, some parasitic wasps can get fairly big however they are not interested in attacking you. Unfortunately, giant hornets will quite happily attack people if they feel like it, and this can be lethal.

EvenFlow · May 2004

Geez, scary stuff, they just tear those poor bees in half, link works just make sure you dont include the 'stream :' bit :

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

Dread · May 2004

They use pheromones.

They stole it from usss. We wants it back.

JediYoshi · May 2004

Reminds me of something we would do to Iraq.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

Aegeri · May 2004

I just saw the whole thing (only on 56k, so it takes a year to download), but their video editing is pretty over dramatic (especially their choice in music). The bits that look fake however are real (to go back to something mentioned earlier), it is just they are using extremely high speed cameras which make things look rather surreal (like in slow motion). In reality most things occuring in that little battle would of been going extremely quickly, particularly the mid air fights.

Beast · May 2004

Video doesn't work for me for some reason... keeps going BLAH in windows media player...

Could anyone host it or mirror it or something? o.o

Nikon · May 2004

OMG teh LERKS!

Khaim · May 2004

How about 100 Lerks vrs 100 Giant Hornets... o.O Who would win, and by how much...?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' />

raz0r · May 2004

good god those mofos are HUGE
all i can say is im never going to japan

oh and 'RAAAAAPE'

Har_Har_the_Pirate · May 2004

man european honey bee's get owned, African bee's get em too... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

next match up African bee's versus Japanese Hornets

StormLiong · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>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.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Xiile · May 2004

Wow, mean little... er big... buggies.

Now I know where Square-Enix got the "Giant Hornet" enemies from in FFXI. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Zig · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aegeri @ May 10 2004, 05:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Japanese bees however have, and can quite readily deal with them. I really want to go to Japan and have a look at them for myself to be honest.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
tbh, i wanna go to japan to party with the japanese girls.

Petco · May 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Khaim @ May 10 2004, 08:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> How about 100 Lerks vrs 100 Giant Hornets... o.O Who would win, and by how much...?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>The lerks will win because if they can lift onoses and gorges (Onos jumps on lerk and lerk flys while onos jumps) and they can do stuff like spikes and spikes and spikes and spores and bite and spikes and primal scream and spikes and umbra and spikes. Also attracts people to say "LORK on the CLORF!!!"

Retales · May 2004

The video was like 30000 (no-upgrade) marines trying to knife 30 3-hive(regeneration & adrenaline) onii. Poor bees.

I would declare war on those things if they came here in Finland and tried to kill those funny looking round bumblebees. They just look so funnay, though they might attack you (just like gorges; they look cute, but are dangerous if you get too close).

Omg, I found an image

Confuzor · May 2004

I want to see pay-per-view event:

10 Giant hornets vs Killer bees 10,000

Liku · May 2004

Someone got their sh*t ruined.

R_A_C · May 2004

Reminds me of playing the last level of Halo on co-op and Legendary difficulty. The Flood just keeps coming and we just keep knocking them down. Esp. funny after you blow of their attacking arm and they just sit there sometimes, waiting for you to blow their heads off.

edit:
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /> {not-quite-dead
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /> Flood smilie here}

dr_d · May 2004

The hornets came swiftly and silently to collect their bounty, natural born killers ready for a massacre, but they weren't expecting to find their enemies armed with a secret weapon....

<img src='http://www.atmos.org/images/raid.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

The good thing about being a human is you can anihilate most scary bugs with a few sprays of nice deadly chemicals.

Giant Hornets Vs Bees

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