It’s not nice to bug mother nature — or it’ll bug you.
Literally.
Just imagine you’re out hiking and see an object that looks like an image of a big cat. In reality, it’s a yellow jacket nest about the size of an electric dishwasher. Suppose you got too close, or walked up to it? What would happen? Possibly you’d be seriously or stung.
If you don’t believe it, just look what happens when someone (clearly with protection) approaches the nest with a video camera. The sounds are the sounds of insects hitting the camera:
There are dangers in working with bees:
And a little friendly advice: never hold a soccer game near a beehive.
Killer bees and bee stings are, of course, no laughing matter. But you can’t help laugh when you see how even the (fake) appearance of bees on the loose sends people scrambling:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.