• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

He really is that stupid.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Open Threads / Excellent Links / What Can 30 Hornets Do?

What Can 30 Hornets Do?

by John Cole|  June 16, 200510:28 am| 11 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links

FacebookTweetEmail

This streaming video of what happens when 30 hornets find a bee colony is just, well, cool. Put this in IMAX, please.

BTW- Loved the helicoptor sound effects- would it have been too over the top to have the Ride of the Valkyries playing in the background, ala Apocalypse Now?

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « The Counter-Recruiters
Next Post: Presidential Veto »

Reader Interactions

11Comments

  1. 1.

    slickdpdx

    June 16, 2005 at 11:01 am

    Cool link, but I couldn’t take watching the bee massacre. Thanks for ruining my day!

  2. 2.

    Dior

    June 16, 2005 at 11:11 am

    very cool, it reminds me of the Movie The Hellstrom Chronicles.

  3. 3.

    Mike S

    June 16, 2005 at 11:43 am

    Cool, but creepy.

    On a different note. Is there anyway I can change the backround here. It’s so bright that I find my eyes losing focus.

  4. 4.

    Mr Furious

    June 16, 2005 at 11:50 am

    Yikes. That is nuts.

  5. 5.

    Anderson

    June 16, 2005 at 11:57 am

    As if I didn’t hate/fear wasps and hornet enough already. Brrrr.

  6. 6.

    The Commenter

    June 16, 2005 at 12:01 pm

    This is, if I remember correctly, taken from a PBS (or maybe National Geographic?) on giant Japanese hornets.

    European honeybees have no natural defense against the hornets and will be massacred, as in this video.

    Japanese honeybees, however, have a defense. When a hornet scout discovers a honeybee hive, the bees allow the hornet to enter deeper and deeper into the hive. The hornet keeps coming to mark the hive with its scent. Eventually, when it is deep enough into the hive, all of the bees pounce on the hornet at once.

    They don’t sting the hornet. Instead, they vibrate, raising the temperature of the mass of bees. The bees can withstand temperatures a few degrees higher than the hornet – so they cook the hornet to death. Eventually the hornet dies and the bees go about their business.

  7. 7.

    Joel

    June 16, 2005 at 12:03 pm

    very cool, it reminds me of the Movie The Hellstrom Chronicles.
    Posted by Dior at June 16, 2005 11:11 AM

    That’s exactly what I thought when I saw the clip. I’m still not sure what to make of that movie…

  8. 8.

    AzureLupine

    June 16, 2005 at 6:15 pm

    This wouldn’t have happened if the bees had 2nd Amendment protection!

  9. 9.

    Tim Keating

    June 16, 2005 at 8:17 pm

    It’s fine, the bees were in a PVS anyway.

  10. 10.

    Carrie

    June 17, 2005 at 1:05 am

    That was SOOO wierd!

Comments are closed.

Trackbacks

  1. Restless Mania says:
    June 16, 2005 at 12:45 pm

    War

    It’s not natural. . .WRONG! Thanks to Balloon Juice.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • EarthWindFire on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:23pm)
  • Baud on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:18pm)
  • Martin on Take the Fucking Win (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:18pm)
  • WaterGirl on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:14pm)
  • hueyplong on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:14pm)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!