Giant wasp nests perplex experts

Totally amazing! One day, insects will rule the earth, and will thrive long after humans have died out, or left for the stars.

Five feet in length and can hold up to an estimated 10,000 bees? Imagine getting caught in a swarm that huge?!?

They've finally discovered how to make insect hotels.

That's bizarre...yellow jackets nests are always underground, no wonder the experts are baffled. Celumnaz...yellow jackets have nests underground...normally, hornets have the basketball size nests usually hanging from a tree branch, wasps have strange mushroom looking nests hanging from the underneath the edge of the roof and mudwasps have the tube shaped nests. We had a huge yellow jacket nest about twenty feet from our back door a few years ago. I heard about this guy in the area that collected them for free and he sold them to a university that uses them to make the antivenom shots. He came... [More]

This does seem pretty scary...I know I wouldn't want to live around 100,000 bugs that can sting me to death.

A sign of things to come.

This creeps me out, it makes me feel horrible.

That's what those brown tube things are at the top of the house! Mudwasps..... 10 feet from the door *shivers*

Gee whiz - that is really scary - those nests sound HUGE - Big as VW beetle???

Times like this... I'm so glad I'm not in the south. But SHIIIIIITE... I hate bugs to begin with. And I hate being near nests. I'm sooo staying out of Alabama now. I might have to move back to Alaksa.... It's safer, cold winters to kill the bugs.... And no dangerous buggies.... But I HATE THE COLD.... *Invests in a bee suit*