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Posted: 6/24/2013 1:10:48 PM EDT

Link to video

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Edit: to fix title for all the entomologists out there

Posted: 6/24/2013 1:11:52 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:

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is a big white box?

Posted: 6/24/2013 1:11:58 PM EDT

[#2]

Hudson: Maybe it's like an ant hive!

Vasquez: BEES MAN! BEES HAVE HIVES!

Posted: 6/24/2013 1:45:30 PM EDT

[#3]

Wow thats a big hive. I can see how it would be dangerous to walk up on , but sees a shame to kill them all.

Posted: 6/24/2013 1:54:04 PM EDT

[#4]

Yellow jackets are not bees.

Bees are beneficial and should be left alone if at all possible.

Yellow jackets are wasps and should be exterminated with extreme prejudice.

Posted: 6/24/2013 1:58:34 PM EDT

[#5]

This is why flame throwers should be sold at Home Depot

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:02:29 PM EDT

[#6]

Did he kill the nest?

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:03:50 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
This is why flame throwers should be sold at Home Depot

http://reviews.homedepot.com/1999/100341111/inferno-propane-torch-kit-reviews/reviews.htm

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:06:58 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Did he kill the nest?

They didn't show him doing it, which was disappointing, but they showed "day 2" video and there was a carpet of dead wasps on the ground outside the nest.

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:07:08 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Did he kill the nest?

No. Just the hornets in it. Stirred it up though.

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:15:00 PM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:19:06 PM EDT

[#11]

Holy fuck, that is amazing.

Gave me the willies when you just heard them hitting the camera. Motherfuckers hurt

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:33:43 PM EDT

[#12]

Posted: 6/24/2013 2:55:49 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
http://rantingsofacynicaloptimist.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wasp.jpeg

The truth!

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:14:39 PM EDT

[#14]

Nuke from orbit...

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:34:57 PM EDT

[#15]

I always was taught that Yellow Jackets live in the ground.

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:38:12 PM EDT

[#16]

Wasps are actually beneficial insects for humans and the environment.
They are one of the major natural scavengers, and they eat insects such
as flies and caterpillars that are often considered pests to humans.
They should be left alone if they are in a location where they are not
bothering people. Some wasps pollinate plants and crops, but most do
not.

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:40:04 PM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:40:11 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Nuke from orbit...

Winner

Posted: 6/24/2013 3:43:29 PM EDT

[#19]

Trade secret, my ass.

I want to know how he killed it.

Posted: 6/24/2013 5:55:12 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Trade secret, my ass.

I want to know how he killed it.

Same here, what an asshole.

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:04:32 PM EDT

[#21]

honey I found a reason to get a flamethrower

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:11:03 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:14:52 PM EDT

[#23]

Shit, I used to live in Tampa and ride on many of the trails. I would have probably shit myself if I had come across a monstrosity like that in the woods. I would hope that the high pitched scream that would surely ensue may slow them down long enough to vacate the area. Damn, that was a big nest.

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:17:37 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Trade secret, my ass.

I want to know how he killed it.

Tempo would do that. I've killed a lot of large wasp nests with it.

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:17:57 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:

http://rantingsofacynicaloptimist.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wasp.jpeg

The truth!

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:18:27 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
http://rantingsofacynicaloptimist.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wasp.jpeg

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:23:02 PM EDT

[#27]

Pretty big... White faced hornets are meaner though.

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:25:24 PM EDT

[#28]

Flamethrowers should be standard equipment for EVERYBODY.

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:33:15 PM EDT

[#29]

This one they called the army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:39:00 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://rantingsofacynicaloptimist.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wasp.jpeg

The truth!

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/222/c/d/cazador_by_dovahkiin117-d464w04.jpg

i got stung on the finger by a big orange hawk when i was a kid, I have no allergies to stings but this thing swelled my whole hand up to my forearm

Posted: 6/24/2013 6:41:20 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Wow thats a big hive. I can see how it would be dangerous to walk up on , but sees a shame to kill them all.

Maybe they could go live with you?

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:03:21 PM EDT

[#32]

Check this one out a Asian Giant Hornets nest. These are ground based, like a land mine.
Fast forward to 4:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRiM0LuQEQ
Having already been stung on the throat by one of these Asian giant
hornets (known as 'tu fong' - dirt hornet in Chinese on account of their
nest being built on the ground) while out hiking (my neck looked like
I'd swallowed one of those junior sized footballs), I was persuaded to
take some local hunters back to catch them. I didn't want to go anywhere
near them, but they argued that they were a public safety hazard - a
local school teacher had been killed a few years ago when he'd stumbled
across a nest - so I reluctantly agreed to do my civic duty. As it
turned out, there was an ulterior motive -- they use them to make a
prized 'energy enhancing' alcoholic drink.
3-4 stings can reputedly
be fatal but it would depend on your reaction - they are amongst the
most poisonous insects on earth. The symptoms for me were acute pain --
the oft quoted 'hot nail' is pretty accurate but that's just the start
of it -- it's then like a chemical pain bomb going off under your skin -
shortness of breath, nausea, paralysis and pronounced swelling of
affected area, faintness. The fainting is the worst, because having
already read on the internet that they can be deadly, you don't want any
of that 'fade to black' thing happening. My reaction was stronger the
second time because I was stung twice by the same hornet. The fainting
and nausea seemed to pass after 30 minutes, and that is probably the
danger zone - but it hurts like hell for a good 4 hours.

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:04:17 PM EDT

[#33]

I thought it would have been Salt Lake city....

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:07:28 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Check this one out a Asian Giant Hornets nest. These are ground based, like a land mine.

Fast forward to 4:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro

Having already been stung on the throat by one of these Asian giant hornets (known as 'tu fong' - dirt hornet in Chinese on account of their nest being built on the ground) while out hiking (my neck looked like I'd swallowed one of those junior sized footballs), I was persuaded to take some local hunters back to catch them. I didn't want to go anywhere near them, but they argued that they were a public safety hazard - a local school teacher had been killed a few years ago when he'd stumbled across a nest - so I reluctantly agreed to do my civic duty. As it turned out, there was an ulterior motive -- they use them to make a prized 'energy enhancing' alcoholic drink.

3-4 stings can reputedly be fatal but it would depend on your reaction - they are amongst the most poisonous insects on earth. The symptoms for me were acute pain -- the oft quoted 'hot nail' is pretty accurate but that's just the start of it -- it's then like a chemical pain bomb going off under your skin - shortness of breath, nausea, paralysis and pronounced swelling of affected area, faintness. The fainting is the worst, because having already read on the internet that they can be deadly, you don't want any of that 'fade to black' thing happening. My reaction was stronger the second time because I was stung twice by the same hornet. The fainting and nausea seemed to pass after 30 minutes, and that is probably the danger zone - but it hurts like hell for a good 4 hours.

Okay, I just read up on Asian Giant Hornets.

Yep.

Nuclear weapons are called for here.

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:10:09 PM EDT

[#35]

Worst (and actually, one of the only) wasp sting I ever got was a corker.

About 25 years ago, I went into my bedroom one afternoon to take a short nap, and lay down.

As my head hit the pillow, I turned onto one side, and a few seconds later, I felt like a hot nail was being stuck into the middle of my forehead.

I jumped up out of the bed like it was on fire of course, to assess WTF just happened.

There was a huge paper wasp on my pillow. Son of a bitch nailed me right in the middle of my forehead.

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:13:03 PM EDT

[#36]

Probably a pyrethroid fogger

I hate wasp jobs I get stung every time

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:22:53 PM EDT

[#37]

Check this one out.

R/C helicopter vs. wasps.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=XXec7zBaPxA

Posted: 6/24/2013 7:46:06 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Pretty big... White faced hornets are meaner though.

Bald faced hornets. And yes they are. I and a buddy were mowing the fields at my aunts place, while we were working along a fence we stirred up a nest. We both got quite a few stings and I learned something new about my diabetes, Extreme stress can send your numbers through the roof. I also learned that you can't run down a steep rocky hill at full speed while paying more attention to the little terrorists stinging the shit out of you, and expect to come out of it without your hands, knees and face bleeding

About 3 days after it happened I was in the Doctors office getting my blood sugar under control

Posted: 6/24/2013 8:34:53 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Check this one out.

R/C helicopter vs. wasps.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=XXec7zBaPxA

I love that video

Posted: 6/24/2013 8:40:58 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Yellow jackets are not bees.

Bees are beneficial and should be left alone if at all possible.

Yellow jackets are wasps and should be exterminated with extreme prejudice.

+1