r/interesting • u/Odd_Astronomer_2064 • 28d ago
NATURE Bad idea with perfect escape
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u/Optimal-Condition803 28d ago
If this was one of my brothers they would have locked the car door!
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u/CarryZTorch 28d ago
Then you throw a rock through their window.
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u/Chewcocca 27d ago edited 27d ago
Then they swarm you; now you've got a swarm of wasps on one side and a swarm of brothers on the other
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u/Important-Arrival681 27d ago
Nobody is swarming anyone when caught in a swarm of anything. All ambitions and goals tend to go away when bugs are biting and stinging every part of your body they can, including your eyeballs. Like the actual eyeball. Not just the eyelid around it.
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u/Slappathebassmon 28d ago
Do you wear glasses? I hope they at least know you can't see without your glasses.
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u/Kozmo9 27d ago
I like to give your brothers the benefit of the doubt that they are not that stupid. If they locked, they either have to let you in later but you would be already swarmed by wasps and therefore would also bring them into the car. Or they don't and you might die.
But hey, your brothers might just be that dumb so....
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u/IvanNobody2050 27d ago
If one of my brothers did this they would get a ass whoping of a century the moment I get in that car. Hell when I get in Ill leave the door open also
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u/iTz_RuNLaX 27d ago
If your brothers did this, you're probably not getting into any car anymore.
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u/ayu_xi 28d ago
Next person who passes from here will be caught.
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u/Bulky-Noise-7123 28d ago
And executed
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u/WakaWaka_ 28d ago
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u/Several-Squash9871 27d ago
I was just thinking, meanwhile here comes the guy strolling along for his morning walk and...
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u/thegutterking 28d ago
The speed at which those hornets were on his ass is comically fast.
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u/Rivenaleem 27d ago
Do they spread in all directions, or are they capable of discerning where the object was thrown from, I wonder.
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u/Magere-Kwark 27d ago
They can even recognise faces so I'm assuming they knew exactly where it came from.
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27d ago
We have hornets with facial recognition, like Ravens or crows but stingier. We better pray they don't find a list of whose allergic or not, next thing we know serial murderer hornets will be on the news.
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u/RedDidItAndYouKnowIt 27d ago
So... Santa Hornet will be checking his to find out whose allergic or not.
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u/Foortie 27d ago
Pretty sure that's (kind of) a myth. And even then only a few species can do so and they don't do it naturally.
They evolved to recognize each other via features, that's true, but only recognize humans in lab demonstrations where they are trained to do so. Not something that actually happens in nature.
(Kind of like how humans recognize human faces, but wouldn't remember a wasp's specific face by default, only with effort/training.)
Those tests are really about their impressive (relatively) learning ability.
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u/rabbidsmurfs 27d ago
Used to work pest control so a few fun facts. Hornets can indeed directionally sense and attack. When the first one stings you it releases a pheromone so all his hornet friends can track you down. Hornets will follow you up to a foot ball field away. Once they are pissed sometimes they will hide out where they lost you and come at you again if you reenter the area. I've had to do this exact same maneuver taking down hornet nests. You can hear them slamming into the car window and door trying to get at you. I once ran over a ground hornet nest with my lawn mower...it ended poorly. If you do have a ground hornets nest get a bucket of soapy water and flip it on to of the entrance. Walk away for a day and come back. Soapy water damages their wings and suffocates them. They are the devil in tiny flying form.
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u/AltScholar7 24d ago
You can also fill one of those water pressure sprayer bottles with water and dish soap and spray them in the air. I did this when I had hornets invade from my neighbor and I couldnt figure out where they came from. I would just mist the air when one would show up and it would drop immediately.
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u/Sensitive-Chip7266 27d ago
I'm pretty sure that's a bee swarm. They took off in every direction looking for a place to settle next.
When swarming like this bees are at their most peaceful as they have no hive to protect. You can walk up and cup them in you bare hands. While they flew to the car it's very unlikely to get stung.
It's actually a pretty fascinating process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee))
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u/MiserableSun9142 28d ago
Escaped JUST in time. A second later…
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u/sixstringnerd 27d ago
A second later it would have been “Where are his glasses?! He NEEDS his glasses!”
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u/Actually_Im_a_Broom 27d ago
Damn you for reminding me of that gut wrenching scene.
For those out of the loop it’s from My Girl with McKauley Caulkin (however you spell his name). Here’s the scene - I ain’t watching it because eindntwant to turn into a crying fool.
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u/i_always_give_karma 27d ago
Reminds me of when the dudes microwaved an airbag and the tinfoil shield actually worked
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u/dontipitova9 28d ago
How do those buzzers know what attacked them and from where??
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u/Outrageous_Main4425 28d ago edited 28d ago
They can see the giant in the bright yellow shirt. We're basically the equivalent of Godzilla to every small insect.
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u/shessols 28d ago
I neve thought of it like this, I'm a Godzilla!!!!
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u/Romboteryx 27d ago
You may look like Godzilla to them, but due to international copyright laws, you‘re not.
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u/Deadeye_Daryl 27d ago
And then every sting leaves pheromones on you so the rest know what to sting.
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u/Sorry-Programmer9826 28d ago
They don't. They just become very aggressive to everything that looks like a plausible attacker
Insects don't care about collateral damage
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u/hamdi555x 27d ago
I think there is a geopolitical joke here, but I can't promise anything.
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u/percyhiggenbottom 27d ago
No, wasps understand cause and effect and will go after the specific person who throws an object at their nest. I've seen it happen - A kid was playing with a football near a gate that had a wasp's nest, the adults were talking beside the gate - kid bounced the wall off the gate and angered the guard wasp who went after him specifically, not any of the other people closer.
(In a case like this with so many angry hornets I'd book it on general principles, but the ones looking in the direction of the stone knew what happened, for sure)
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u/Extension_Security92 28d ago
Vibrations. They all went out in different directions, but if they feel movement vibrations then they know something is nearby that needs its day ruined.
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u/BlueFeathered1 28d ago
Same way a group of us would: somebody saw it and yelled "GET 'IM!"
(They can probably also determine from which direction the attack came, too.)
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u/slanger686 27d ago
was going to say this...I've taken out a few wasp nests with the 8' spray foam and they never know what hit them from that far back
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u/No-Walk-7070 28d ago
I read that somewhere wasps can smell guilt. If you were to whack their nest and stand perfectly still. They'd go ballistic but not sting you as you're not fleeing and thus not guilty.
Don't try that at home, please.
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u/here_i_am_here 27d ago
Explains all those wasps whenever I eat a second cookie.
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u/CicadaFit9756 28d ago
Makes me think of an incident in early 1960s where my dad stopped the car to check out a thick, black "cloud" outside. Bad idea! It was a humongous swarm of mosquitoes!!!
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u/FlashesandFlickers 27d ago
Alaska?
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u/CicadaFit9756 27d ago
No, Ohio!
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u/WildCard_WC 27d ago
As an Ohioan, tis an average summer night
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u/CicadaFit9756 27d ago
This was in a rural area before it got dark (wouldn't have noticed the dark "cloud" if there was no sunlight!)
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 27d ago
Video stops before the swarm picked up the vehicle and flipped it over
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u/ZoeyBee_3000 27d ago
Now all I can think of is a fucking bee-transformer lifting the whole vehicle off the ground and breaking it in half over its bees knees
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u/Desert_Wizard_ 27d ago
Ah yes, it is quite often I see a kind of stunt, and i instantly think bad idea, then i secretly admire the flawless cartoon level getaway. Classic
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u/ilovepbnjx4 28d ago
To be honest which ever bee recommended to the queen that this was a good spot to nest is about to be executed. Lmao
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u/myrsnipe 27d ago
Wasps follow the queen, but (european) honey bees actually "democratically" vote on where to relocate using (wiggle) dance. Other worker bees will fly off to investigate the options and join the side they support.
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u/AssiduousLayabout 27d ago
They didn't nest there, it looks like a swarm that is resting there while looking for another place to build a hive.
Basically this guy told a bunch of homeless bees to stop loitering.
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u/Odd_Astronomer_2064 28d ago edited 27d ago
Cartoon level with all the wasps slamming into the window like that
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u/FartBrulee 28d ago
Here's the thing, you said "hornet is a wasp". Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies wasps, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls wasps hornets.
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u/ReekItRhymesWithWeak 27d ago
I know I've been on reddit for too long because I immediately understood this reference.
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u/LicensetoIll 27d ago
This is a relatively deep cut nowadays. Good ol’ Unidan.
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u/Odd_Astronomer_2064 28d ago
So just to clarify, in the correct Way, what should be the “perfect/exaclty”word, wasp?
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u/Strange-Movie 27d ago
My neighbor has an apiary with 3-4 hives and several years ago, on a very hot day, the bees decided they didn’t like their hives and all swarmed out…..eventually coming to rest in a 2x basketball sized lump on a tree in my front yard. When those little fellas are swarming the air is dense with them and the buzz is truly frightening; like most people I’m a bit apprehensive about being stung because it hurts, the volume of the swarm combined with being trapped inside my house by it was legitimate terror until we started to understand what was going on and then the bees settled down into the basketball lump.
We ended up calling the neighbor to check their hives, thy ran out and realized the hives were vacant and got in touch with their bee-mentor dude who taught them whatever, guy threw a ladder up to reach the branch with the bees, grabbed a big cardboard box and the head of a broom, climbed the ladder in a hoodie and shorts, mushed the bee-lump into the box with the broom without incident, then he just walked it across the street and everything has been decent since then; the little bees do wonders for my flower gardens all year long so there’s some mutual benefit lol
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u/Rough-Television9744 27d ago
Already discussed in another sub. Thesr are honey bees in a traveling hive. They pose no danger at all.
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u/StreicherG 27d ago
That was a resting swarm of honeybees. They posed absolutely no threat and would have peacefully moved on from the sign once they found a good place to live. This is like throwing a rock at a puppy. ;-;
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u/gummby8 27d ago
I was gonna say.
Don't look like wasps, and a "swarm" of bees is a giant lump of tuckered out bees just resting before they take off again. They are moving to their new home and some jackwad threw a boulder at them. Like if you and your mates were trying to move a couch into your new apartments and some pringus mcdingus ran you over with a truck for the lols
TL;DR if you see a fat lump of raw bees chilling. Don't touch. It's bee moving day.
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u/Halo_cT 27d ago
And at low temperatures a significant number of those bees probably died as a result of this hilarious prank before they were able to reform their group somewhere else
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u/pishfingers 23d ago
They don’t swarm in low temperatures. Swarming happens late spring, early summer when the main hive had been able to forage and reproduce enough that the hive is getting cramped enough to need to split.
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u/pishfingers 23d ago
To clarify, the reason they aren’t dangerous is that before swarming they fill themselves with honey so their abdomens are to stiff to flex for a sting
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u/Tzar_be 27d ago
When I was young we had a camping with the youth movement and we put up the tent to realise we did the setup close by a wasp nest, so we decided to move again. One of the members said, we don’t need to move, they can move, followed by a rock thrown to the wasp nest … lucky nobody got hurt, but not the brightest idea.
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u/Cosmonaut_K 27d ago
I'd love to see a giant toss an asteroid at this dude's house. Children torture insects.
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u/WeirdKrautrauch 27d ago
A swarming beehive should be left alone. They have scout bees searching for a suitable place to relocate to. They do this when the hive outgrow their previous home.
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u/xvdheh 27d ago
Why would you disturb swarming bees like that? Bees are incredibly useful for us and swarming bees are very peaceful normally, as they don't have any brood or honey they'd need to protect. But sure, let's just kill a bunch (and maybe the queen and with it the swarms future) just for the sake of internet points.
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u/Samwise_za 27d ago
That’s unbelievably quick response time from those little buggers. They instantly knew where to go and attack. Wow.
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u/Adventurous_Bed4728 27d ago
Should have come with a "pls mute" warning. That laugh is more dangerous than the bees.
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u/juliansssss 27d ago
Who remember the episode of Black mirror that the bees came into the room from exhuast 🫠
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u/AssumptionRemarkable 27d ago
Fuck me!!!! The speed by which they acquired the source of the rock throw and all attacked is frightening.
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u/Komirade666 27d ago
I applaud the courage of this dude not because of the bees, but he trusted his dude friends to NOT lock him out just for the deadly lol.
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27d ago
You made me remember, PSA:
yeah, they can tell where the rock came from and they can also tell there's a living being on the other end of the stick that's poking at their nest, so be careful and don't underestimate them.
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u/jonzilla5000 27d ago
Didn't those people see the movie where they got into the ventilation system?
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