http://www.wesh.com/news/3319263/detail.html#
A huge hive was found inside an abandoned mobile home in Hillsborough County.
No one knows how long it was there, but the yellow jacket hive was about the size of a minivan and growing.
Authorities estimated the hive held some 200,000 yellow jackets.
Once an exterminator calmed the insects with chemicals, the hive was cut up and removed.
Holy cow! That's alotta bees!
I wouldn't want to be the one counting/estimating the amount there.:yikes:
I wouldn't want to be the one finding it!
Just shows that truth is stranger than fiction. :)
Two hundred thousand? That's a LOT of stings! :yikes:
We once excavated a yellow jacket hive in the ground just outside our old mountain cabin. It was composed of an extensive honeycomb system of cells (looked just like a regular honeybee hive) that went on and on and ON underground. :% :eek: (We never did get to the end of it.) My husband is a zoologist and familiar with native fauna as well, having grown up here amidst plentiful yellow jacket "populations" , but even he was amazed at how huge the thing was and how far it extended. :o :rolleyes: