Comments on: World’s Largest Yellow Jacket Bee

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:02:30 +0000

sounds like a meet eating bee there out there on utube

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:59:05 +0000

can somebody please help me with identtifying this bee or what ever it is.i have been doing research for 2 days there is nothing close to this.the stinger is there but theres a nother one above it thats 5 times bigger u can reach me b.linscott74@yahoo.com thank u a try to hury i dont want him to rot away

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:08:52 +0000

i am looking at one right now its alive and is i a container if any one knows what they are contact me at rmdali69@yahoo.com thank you for your time ryan from harrisburg P.A.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:16:13 +0000

i know exactly what your talking about, i work all over jersey and i see these monster bees all the time the first time i saw one i freaked out.

By: Devone

Devone — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:53:21 +0000

Maybe we’re talking about the same hornet, because i thought that the one’s I had seen, were European, but they sound more similar to what you clame to have seen, than that of the European pics I had been viewing. The only thing is, they were living underground.

By: Devone

Devone — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:49:29 +0000

If anyone ever tells you that European Hornets do not make nests underground, they are wrong. I seen a bunch living under my step moms’ porch; right; that was a month ago. Guess where they are now? Digging holes underground to nest. They made a hole from one side of the sidewalk, right to the other side of the sidewalk. They are giant, and they have like a red hair on them; they look dangerous to me…..lol. I could be wrong though. However, I do promise that they are very large though.

By: monica

monica — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:43:04 +0000

Can anyone HELP me to kill these things. I can’t kill them. I have about 20 at my front porch and they want let us in the house. I have 3 younger kids that they have chase them. They r HUGE and i have tried everything. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME !!!! We r scared of them. I have never seen anything like this. I have been looking on line to find what these are. Hope someone can help me.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:27:41 +0000

Over at Lake Roosevelt in Eastern Washington i saw 3. Although it may not be the same bee as in these pictures as i can’t see it very clearly, the ones i saw looked much bigger, at least 3-4 inches long. It was black with no yellow, instead of yellow it was a more dark orange with black, black head, and pretty fuzzy. We hit it witha a hat against the ground, hit it again out of the air with the hat when it tried to fly away, then hit it again a third time it tried to fly away, but this time we trapped it in the hat and brought it to a picnic table all the while it was vibrating the entire hat, we grabbed a fork that was laying on the picnic table…we smashed that thing and damn near cut it in half. It got up and flew away as we stared jaws open, 100ft away we could still hear it buzzing. I’ve looked up Cicada Killers on google image as well as European Hornets, none look like what we saw but they do have very similar characteristics. Maybe a mix breed between them or something.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:11:16 +0000

I have killed 2 of these things 1 yesterday 1 today
MAN they are scary
I really really don’t like bees

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:43:27 +0000

Ok.. I’ve been chasing these things for a few hours now in a huge field behind my house, we counted about 20 of them when they were out at their peak time, .. question.. do they live underground? I dunno if its the bee’s hole or the cacada but all i saw were the bee’s going down into the holes… very long deep holes. a few dead cacada were on the ground, i started using those as bait to catch one while it tried to carry it off, no luck yet but tomorrow ill try again. I was literally playing baseball with these things trying to knock one down to catch, they simply bounced off or went down then got right back up, i wanna catch one and keep it for collection without injuring it if I can…. they never tried to sting me, or i have dumb luck, but they sure are scary bee’s. my mom was told they were ants lol.