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You Have No Idea How Big Wasp Nests Get
Wasps, like Beyonce fans, are tireless workers who will readily lay down their lives for their queen. And they also won't hesitate to stab you for looking at them wrong. As such, one English homeowner found herself suddenly short a pair of pants when she walked into her spare bedroom to find this writhing mess staring her in the face:
John Birkett/Longwood Services Pest Control"Sleeeeep ... Foreverrrrr ..."
No, these aren't some scary new breed of "fast zombie" wasps. The bedroom window had been left open, and the room hadn't been entered for several months, which seems like the real story here. If you have so many bedrooms that you completely forget about one of them for the better part of a year, maybe donate a few to charity or something. Regardless, after all was said and done, 5,000 wasps were removed from the three-foot nest. That included 700 queens, because wasps have some weird ideas about royalty.
A three-foot-wide nest is pretty impressive, but wasps can do better. Much better:
San Sebastian de La Gomera Police Department
San Sebastian de La Gomera Police Department
"Better than a New York City apartment"-size better.
That's a 22-foot-wide nest which authorities found inside an abandoned home in San Sebastian de La Gomera, the capital of the Canarian island of La Gomera. Police estimated that the house was swarming with at least a few million wasps, and somehow seemed puzzled that they couldn't find the homeowner. Don't they understand? That home obviously belongs to the wasps now.
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Even Tiny Sea Fleas Are Bloodthirsty Maniacs
After a long day of soccer and trying not to get eaten by mutant kangaroos, 16-year-old Australian Sam Kanizay dipped his sore legs into the cool waters of Melbourne's Brighton Beach. It wasn't until he got out that he noticed hundreds of little punctures on his lower legs. That was cause enough for concern, but then the bleeding started. A lot of bleeding. Like, this much "a lot":
Jarrod Kanizay
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