This thing is hanging in a tree near where I walk on the way to the lab. It’s bigger than my head!
That’s actually what I think when I walk by: “What if that fell off and landed on my head and I had to run around waving my arms?” A childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons has given me that expectation.
It’s the end of days—zombie hornets’ nest.
I wonder what Beavis & Butt-head would do if they spotted that nest?
(no, not really)
Just make sure you have an umbrella with you.
It also offers protection from falling anvils.
Yeah, I wouldn’t go anywhere near that thing. I wouldn’t even want to be in the same town with it..
Kill it with fire from space!
birgerjohansson @2
Do the swarm of wasps take whimsical shapes? Arrows. Punctuation. Clenched fists.
I still think of this cartoon every single time I watch a baseball game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpi2jIxPrtA
Hemidactylus @ 6
Thanks! 😊
Are hornets just wasps or some kind of big super-wasps? You know, the Uruk-hai of waspdom.
@weylguy
Not a hornet’s nest. My guess is some Dolichovespula species.
@birgerjohansson
Hornets are specifically wasps of the genus Vespa.
From a safe distance, my boyhood friend and I whipped wild apples at one hanging above the sidewalk until an unsuspecting neighbor lady walked under it and received the brunt of their fury. What little assholes we were.
Where I work there is the occasional wasp.
This time of year they seem a bit lethargic.
If one is nearby I let it crawl onto my finger for the warmth.
My workmates shudder.
I want to linger, but work beckons.
A puff of breath sends it off.
There once was a man from Dundee,
who was stung on the arm by a wasp.
When asked “does it hurt?”
He replied “no, it doesn’t.
“I’m so glad it wasn’t a hornet.”
This is very off-topic but church-state separationists will want to read this article from the Baton Rouge newspaper, The Advocate. It’s pretty disgusting. I suspect it’s going to be very expensive for the school district when the (probable) lawsuit ends.. This is the link:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/baton-rouge-metro-area-student-in-trouble-for-dancing/article_e588c49e-6461-11ee-a9a5-73319b66f8eb.html
This looks to me like a textbook example of a bald-faced hornet nest – a particularly ill-tempered, larger-than-average wasp.
This is why the flamethrower was invented, 100%.
hemidactylus @6 — Thanks, that fkn kills me every time.
Holy fuck, and you think we Aussies have the scary creatures? 8-O
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Morris is so small it doesn’t have a pest control department listed on its website. Oh well, call the county. Oops. Stevens County doesn’t have one either. It’s what you get for living beyond the boondocks. ;>)
“What if that fell off and landed on my head and I had to run around waving my arms?” A childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons has given me that expectation.
See, that’s why “Star Trek” was so popular back then — it’s much more realistic!
Small, dangerours critters – what about small cute wabbits who mutate and become giant man-eating monsters?
GAM399 Night of the Lepus
https://youtu.be/EPLAzQ-L34M
Hornets and wasps are just friends who need a little extra space.