Tell me this isn't the biggest yellow jacket nest you ever saw...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I dare you. :scared:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/NEWS02/607170317/1009

[Mutley]

1. Nonono, wait.

Is that nest taking over the entire inside of a car? Is that what I'm seeing?

:scared: :yoiks:

[Broken_Hero]

3. thats what it looks like to me....nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. That's a 1955 Chevy...

Check out the article...There are over a dozen of these super nests in Alabama alone. Entomologists think it has to do with the lack of a cold winter. The super nests have multiple queens!

[Mutley]

6. That makes me scared.

:scared: :cry:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. You should be ok

as long as you stay out of Alabama! :hug:

[BrotherBuzz]

48. Or Chevys...

:hide:

[Bucky]

45. You mean Global Warming is doing that? Jeeee-zum! What a horror!

[Broken_Hero]

2. damn....just...damn...nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear GoddessOfGuinness........

Holy shit, that's one huge nest!

I hope the wasps are normal size, though.......:scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. They said they might wait until a winter freeze to destroy the nest...

I hope they have one!

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. Holy crap!

how would you even get rid of that thing short of setting the whole car on fire? I had a wasp nest form in a crevice between my passenger side door and car one semester while I was away at college but a golf club and a well aimed can of Raid took care of that. I don't think there is enough Raid spray in the world that can kill that nest :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. That's pretty creepy...

I wonder if they nest in crevices like that even if the car's being used... :scared:

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. I drove the car around for a week without knowing it!

My friend opened up the passenger side door and discovered it...suffice to say we were both pretty freaked out by it. Although I would imagine if you use the doors on a regular basis I don't think they would nest. I never opened the passenger side door plus the car sat in front of my house for almost 2 months.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. That would be pretty freaky...

I'm not sure I could open the car door again without using extreme caution!

[AlienGirl]

14. Xen says he's buying a flame-thrower

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. I'd be tempted!

[everythingsxen]

51. If it was legal....I totally would

The thought of thousands of hornets attacking scares the bejeebus out of me.

[everythingsxen]

13. Jesus fucking Christ on a fucking pogo stick!

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I'm not going anywhere near southern Alabama

until they get a serious hard frost!

[AlienGirl]

15. I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Good attitude.

They'll probably sting you less and keep you alive to be their human slave.

[Flaxbee]

25. lol!

isn't that the unfortunate truth, though. As man continues to slaughter mammals, ain't nothing going to be left but bugs. Bugzbugzbugzbugz.

[MnFats]

46. good one, aliengirl...you get the Simpsons' prize of the night...

...you must be a Simpsons genius! I am in awe. props to you.

[anarch]

16. dammit, I just parked here for a couple of minutes, I come back to the car

and this. Just my luck.


That actually kind of reminds me of the Alien movies for some reason. I don't think I like it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Multiple queens is pretty scary, too...

It's like they're all conspiring together.

[AlienGirl]

26. Maybe they're evolving super-sociality?

Imagine what would happen if social insects evolved a several-tiered system of control, with sub-queens and so on! They could have semi-autonomous divisions and become even more complex, with each individual acting as a cell in a superorganism. Eventually they could reach levels of complexity equal to the human brain! And then they would take over!

Tucker

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Like "Invasion of the B-Girls"?

:scared:

[AlienGirl]

30. B-Girls?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

32. Actually it was Bee Girls...

but it was a grade B movie. Well...Maybe it was more of a grade D, come to think of it.

[NewJeffCT]

54. That was a good B movie!

Lots of gratuitous female nudity.

[MnFats]

65. they could institute an anarcho-syndicalist form of government...like the.

...peasants in Monty Python's Holy Grail!

[HEyHEY]

17. Hmm, yeah I guess it's kinda big

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Global warming sucks...

...unless you're a yellowjacket.

[leftofthedial]

18. they haven't had crickets in south Alabama this summer

:scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. If these guys get too hungry

they'll either go into a dormant phase or find another source of food... :scared:

[Bake]

67. The damn yellow jackets ate 'em all!

BAke

[MrCoffee]

28. Thanks for that. now i gotta go find some clean pants.

i just crapped all over these.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. Here ya go...

[Blue_Tires]

29. toss some grenades on those bastards and run like hell!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. It probably wouldn't get them all...

It'd make 'em mad, though!

[Extend a Hand]

31. I visit elmore county every summer

I hope those are gone by next July :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Native American tribes did rain dances...

I wonder if any did freeze dances...

[Ediacara]

35. HOLY SHIT!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Makes one glad for winter...

yup...

[CottonBear]

37. OMG!

:scared: Yikes! I live in Georgia, which is next to Alabamna, which is making me think there could be a super nest in my area soon. :scared:
Damn. That's frightening. :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. from the article:

Dr. Michael D. Goodisman, a biologist at Georgia Tech who has studied large nests in Australia, said he's heard of some large ones in Georgia and Florida, but not as big as those in Alabama.A 6-foot by 3-foot nest on a pond stump in Bulloch County, Ga., was featured July 12 on CNN.

[CottonBear]

40. Please, please, please let us have a very cold winter in NE GA this year.

:scared:

The people who own the farm where I keep my horse had to dispatch a huge quantity of honeybees that had nested underneath pallets of hay in the barn. This was a number of years ago. They donned WWII era wool army pants, hats, gloves, heavy boots, balaclavas, filter masks and hats (mind you, this was in August in Georgia)and the two of them advanced into the hay stall with fire extinguishers (cold CO2 type). They froze the entire nest of bees. It worked like a charm! The bees never returned (thank god!).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. What a shame!

Wild honeybees are becoming quite rare.

I hope you get a good freeze! :hi:

[everythingsxen]

42. The yellowjackets are trying to become the dominant species!

They'll destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

Destroy us all!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. Where's Godzilla when you need him?

[AlienGirl]

47. Destroy us all?

[everythingsxen]

50. DESTROY US ALL!!

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Get out the Tangellalos; they hate them.

[otherlander]

64. ...Spongebob?

[koneko]

44. Holy SMOKES!

That is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. Especially if you're allergic to them!

:scared:

[Elidor]

49. I've seen this movie

It doesn't end well.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

56. Did it star William Shatner?

I want to see it!

[zcflint09]

52. This just in: Bush to announce "War on Yellow Jackets"

That might actually be useful. He should go fight them himself. Use that brushing clearing to get those YJ's out of there.

Seriously freaky...I hate bees, wasps, etc, so if i ever ran across that I'd probably faint.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

57. I still think it should be relocated...

in Crawford... :evilgrin:

[sakabatou]

53. HOLY SHIT!

Other large nests:

(Coke crate to help see size difference)
(4'x1.25')
(6'x4' with 250k insects)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. I've got serious goosebumps...

and I'm not cold! :scared:

[Left Is Write]

59. I could throw up. I'm going to have nightmares!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

61. You'll be fine...

Just dream that you're a queen yellow jacket!

[BreweryYardRat]

60. Flamethrowers. Now.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

62. Southern Alabama needs this lady...

[southpaw]

63. I was gonna say, that looks like an alien hive...

I live in Northern Alabama. Haven't heard of any of those around here.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. ...yet

:scared: