I, For One, Welcome Our Yellow Jacket Overlords

From the Montgomery Advertiser comes a story about gigantic yellow jacket nests. By giant, I mean taking over the entire interior of a car.

hornets nest by Rob Carr
(photo by Rob Carr)

The nests are thought to contain multiple queens and about 100,000 workers. So far, 16 have been sighted in Alabama.

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Wow! For once my hometown gets some recognition for something other than the Ten Commandments and racism. Is it sad that this is all I have to be proud of?

Qu-oool! (gets stick to nest - )

Giant supernests of flesh eating Vespula! Blossoming across the bible belt!! Now how am I NOT supposed to take this as a sign of intelligent design?

By Dale Dribble (not verified) on 23 Aug 2006 #permalink

Nice to see that the animal mascot of my workplace (U. of Rochester) is thriving. The article also quotes wasp researcher Dr. Mike Goodisman of Georgia Tech, another place of which yellow jackets are emblematic.

As far as I know, Mike and I may be the only two people to have ever ground up specimens of our own university's mascots.

As far as I know, Mike and I may be the only two people to have ever ground up specimens of our own university's mascots.

Hey, I smashed a buckeye once. Does that count?

"I say nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Of course, nobody ever listens to Ripley.

By Monte Davis (not verified) on 24 Aug 2006 #permalink

Holy crap! I live in Alabama (well, 2 miles from the state line) and am constantly wandering around in the woods. I guess I'll have to keep an eye out for these... my water meter reader actually called me today to tell me about a yellowjacket nest in the water meter. I sure hope it isn't too enormous!