Amazing clip, great photography...nature is indeed ruthless.

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

LOL The Holocaust. :p

LMAO race war!

Yeah, made me think about Pizarro meeting the Incas :D

Genocide. This hate must be stopped.

File didn't open :( . What am I missing?

Its a streaming video so you can not just download it...It works for me fine and its on Standard Windows Media Viewer.

Vhen vill this hate stop?

(So much for Rousseau's idealization of benevolent nature.)

"It's not even a battle; it's simply a massacre," says the narrator. There's a reason for that:

"European honeybees are a favorite target of the giant hornets. Commonly used by Japanese farmers, the honeybees are not native to Japan and have no natural defenses against an onslaught of giant hornets."

-- "Hornets From Hell" Offer Real-Life Fright (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_GiantHornets.html)

The Japanese Honeybee's Thermal Defense (http://www.muenster.org/hornissenschutz/manda.htm)

"The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees. This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees."

The Japanese Honeybee's Thermal Defense (http://www.muenster.org/hornissenschutz/manda.htm)

"The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees. This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees."

So the Japanese Honeybee kills the predators with the "Oven effect". :D ahhh yes, heat them up, and kill them. Hmmm - those Wasp should make the Bees feel guilty and make them pay "reperations". :P

Lmfao.....

Got kosher honey?