Check out this video on Jap Hornets!

This thing is really making the rounds lately, I watched it on TV a year or so ago. Just too bad it doesn't show the bees getting vengeance like I saw. :heh:
 
I would like to see an rogue elephant take on a rhino. Or perhaps an Australian salt-water crocodile take on a Great White. Watching nature shows is only worth it if animals are killing each other.
 
I can't believe not one of 30 hornets became a casualty! That video is awesome!! :flame:

Edit- Ahh the honeybees do have a defense. This from wikipedia...

Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the defenses of honeybees, whose correspondingly small sting cannot inflict much damage against such a large predator as the giant hornet, the Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) has evolved an ingenious method of defending against the much larger predator.

When a hornet scout locates a Japanese honeybee hive and approaches the nest, the scout will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honeybees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so honeybees will gather near the entrance of the nest, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honeybees surround the hornet, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and begin quickly vibrating their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honeybee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). Though the honeybees can tolerate such a temperature, it is fatal to the intruder, which can handle a maximum temperature of about 45 °C (113 °F), and is effectively baked to death by the large mass of vibrating bees

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:kickass:
 
JayKeeley said:
I would like to see an rogue elephant take on a rhino. Or perhaps an Australian salt-water crocodile take on a Great White. Watching nature shows is only worth it if animals are killing each other.
i'd like to see a stingray take on a human


o wait
 
Doomcifer said:
holy shit @ RiA post.
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that video is fucking unruly, i love the narration and dramatic music :lol:

i stepped on a yellowjacket nest once when i was like 7 and got stung a couple dozen times. that really sucked, from what i recall.
 
Reign in Acai said:
When a hornet scout locates a Japanese honeybee hive and approaches the nest, the scout will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honeybees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so honeybees will gather near the entrance of the nest, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honeybees surround the hornet, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and begin quickly vibrating their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honeybee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). Though the honeybees can tolerate such a temperature, it is fatal to the intruder, which can handle a maximum temperature of about 45 °C (113 °F), and is effectively baked to death by the large mass of vibrating bees

Now that's really cool. All I need now is to have some evolutionist explain to me how that behaviour came to be :rolleyes: (seriously, if someone has a theory, please post)
 
once there was a hornet that was the friendliest hornet in the hive. all the other hornets were jerks and they didn't want to play with him. so one day he was out flying and he met a bunch of bees and asked them to be his friends. he was so nice they all hugged him for so long that it raised his internal temperature past the maximum sustainable point and he collapsed from heat exhaustion and expired.


the end.