Not a camper, but mobile home - 200,000 YELLOW JACKETS !!!

[Dayton Dave]

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.

[campingboaters]

Holy cow!  That's alotta bees!

[angelsmom10]

I wouldn't want to be the one counting/estimating the amount there.:yikes:

[Acts 2:38 girl]

I wouldn't want to be the one finding it!

[tlhdoc]

Just shows that truth is stranger than fiction.

[NightOwl]

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.   :rolleyes: