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[Derrek]

A bee just flew over my desk that is the size of a small bird.

I'm not kidding.... I've never seen a bee this big, except in an old Hollywood movie I forget the name of.

[just because]

Its the attack of the killer bees!!!!!!!

[Derrek]

I don't know what kind of bee they are, but they have a hive somewhere near our garbage bins, and they are HUGE!

They killed it, and they thing's body is as wide and long as my thumb.

Scary!

[waggo]

That sounds like a wood wasp to me.

[Honeybee]

[trigger123]

yep me too!
i'm in the country, and some sort of intelligent bee thing flew in and settled under my blackboard yesterday and hasn't shifted yet... its got a striped body and buzzes a little too... i say intelligent because it isn't scared of me, and sort of moves around and looks at me when i approach... should i kill it or rescue it for scientific purposes?
my kids have been aiming kicks at it so far but the bloomin thing won't go!

[Derrek]

Not a wood wasp. Compared it to several internet photos.

Icky things!

[Honeybee]

[visviva]

No need to be as murderous as a child.

Here's what you need: Jar, piece of paper, window. Take a cup or jar, place it (quickly!) over the critter. Slide the piece of paper under the jar and the bee. It's now closed in. Take it to the window (if you have an openable window). Stick the jar out the window, remove paper, shake the jar, quickly retract your arm and close the window.

Works like a charm, but if you aren't quick the poor thing may end up flying right back into the classroom. I try to rescue all the dragonflies, moths, spiders, etc. before my students can inflict a grisly death upon them. Then I usually deliver a lecture about how dragonflies/bees/spiders are helpful to us and we should not kill them. (I often hear the kids whispering in Korean "hey, this teacher really IS crazy!")

That said, the fact that the critter isn't moving much may be symptomatic of the weather, which very soon will be too cold for cold-blooded things to move at all.

[captain kirk]

'some sort of intelligent bee thing'...'because it watched me warily as I moved around it, not moving'. Start of a good SF story there.
Something gave me a whallop on the forehead as I was motorbike driving, maybe 'intelligent bee thing'.

[butter808fly]

Some Korean, I assume bee keeper, was selling bees last week at the outdoor market. Most of the bees looked like normal bees from America but THEN there were these HUGE freakin bees like the one mentioned! I am doubting they are native but something that has been imported. UGH they were UGLY! .... but very interesting... but SCARY!

[rok_the-boat]

Probably a Horse Bee (Mal-beol). I heard they can kill you if they sting you on a major blood vessel. Yes, they are BIG.

We had a hive appear on our balcony last year - kinda scary. I called a guy to get rid of it - what he did was comical. Approached it with insect spray and they all came out mad as hell. But, perhaps it was his experience, he deftly zapped them one by one with the spray, which made them fly away. Then he smashed the hive.

Result - The bees came back and started rebuilding. So, I went for a DIY approach. I sprayed them from inside the mosquito net on the window - quite safe. Affter spraying awhile I opened it a bit them knocked the hive down with a stick and smashed it. For half an hour so so I continued to spray - thru the net - any bee that came back. That was the end of it.

This year, we had an ordinary bees nest in the roof - but I left it. They don't bother me, I don't bother them. I live in the country.

Watch out for big catepillars - Jinae - too: The large ones are 6-7 inches long, look like scorpions, are poisonous, deadly even, and they like to live in your house.

[butter808fly]

6-7 inches long! WOAH there........ first its their spiders ... then the bees, and now seemingly harmless caterpillars! hehe.. frankly I want to see one, but not in my house.

thank God the c-o-c-k-roaches dont follow suit.

[captain kirk]

I have an md'er and stopped looking for relics, coins in the hills when it got too hot. On one particular day I was staggering around, then made it to the road and a convenience store and a couple of cans of coke. In the late Summer I went back to the hills and it was a jungle compared to the Spring.

First off there were spiders in their webs 'everywhere' where the woods were thick. Yellow and black, big bodies but long and thin, with long, elegant, black legs. The biggest of its kind was four inches long. I marvelled at it in disgust, not daring to look at its mouthparts. I was like, 'ok, buddy, you're horrible', and carried on. Next it was a snake, which didn't bother me as much. Just zipped off into the underbrush, was a couple of meters away, about two feet long and green. On the way out, after md'ing a couple of hours, I was stuck in some chest high thorn bushes and delicately handling the passage, thumb and forefinger gently lifting away the caught bits when I heard a mad humming. Wasps probably so I hightailed it back up the ridge. A jungle!

It's true about those big, long, highly venemous jinhae/centipedes.

[butter808fly]

md'er what is that? Your post sounds kind of confusing to me, but maybe Im just confused.

Here in Korea there are large spiders like the ones you mentioned. Big ugly ones.. black with yellow on them. I grew up in the woods, but those things give another meaning to 'hiking through the woods'.