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Title: Hornet nest
Post by: Casimir on April 16, 2007, 08:24:28 pm

Here is a picture from popular science of a hornet nest that filled his car.

(http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/2007/01/mega_jan07_9.jpg)

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: Understudy on April 16, 2007, 09:20:39 pm

That is a lot of nest. :shock:

Sincerely,
Brendhan

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: likes2grill on April 16, 2007, 11:13:31 pm

Holy cow!  :shock:

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: Mici on April 17, 2007, 06:47:46 am

understudy, didn't you post an article leading to this picture/article???
well i certanly think so, coz i remember seeing it and i doubt i found it on my own. and it's not a hornets nest, it's a wasp nest, multi-queen nest, mothers and daughters living together.

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: Understudy on April 17, 2007, 08:53:52 am

Quote from: Mici on April 17, 2007, 06:47:46 am

understudy, didn't you post an article leading to this picture/article???
well i certanly think so, coz i remember seeing it and i doubt i found it on my own. and it's not a hornets nest, it's a wasp nest, multi-queen nest, mothers and daughters living together.

Yeah, I did. I can't find the original link. I didn't remember the car but I remember the house that the mother daughter lived in. The patio was covered in a hornets nest.

Sincerely,
Brendhan

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: Casimir on April 17, 2007, 09:07:09 am

Quote from: Mici on April 17, 2007, 06:47:46 am

understudy, didn't you post an article leading to this picture/article???
well i certanly think so, coz i remember seeing it and i doubt i found it on my own. and it's not a hornets nest, it's a wasp nest, multi-queen nest, mothers and daughters living together.

Sorry, I forgot to include the article.
popsci.com/popsci/photogallery/54647d505244c010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/5.html (http://popsci.com/popsci/photogallery/54647d505244c010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/5.html)

It is a hornets nest and while hornets nests usually have only one queen, these nests can have a hundreds of queens.

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: Cindi on April 17, 2007, 10:25:43 am

Wow!!!  I have never seen something so astounding.  I love the way the hornets make the nest in kind of scallopped wavey texture.  Best of a beautiful day.  Cindi

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: nepenthes on April 17, 2007, 11:23:58 pm

They talk about the reason why they are gettin so big in the recent bee culture.

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: BEE C on May 20, 2007, 04:02:22 pm

A friend sent me this picture last year with the article.  He claims that this state has been decommissioning old cold war nukes into fuel.  Does anyone know anything about this???? Seems an odd coincidence....

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: nepenthes on May 21, 2007, 06:58:54 pm

or! Maybe its getting just warm enough for the wasps to overwinter longer, making queens a little more relaxed with multiple queens, maybe that has been possible before, but its starting to pass through the gene pool a little more?

Its only happening in southern states, right?

Title: Re: Hornet nest
Post by: BEE C on May 24, 2007, 03:16:56 am

Yeah...I hope your right.  Of course mutations do occur around nuke power plants or accidents...  That picture gives me goosebumps.  My friend likes to spook me with weird science articles.  Some things I just don't want to know/see.