agusto Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Tactical warfare is as old as life itself it seems: A horent on a reconnaissance mission detects a beehive. The bees lure the scout into an ambush within the hive, kill it and afterwards try to remove they mark the hornet left in order to try to save them from a mass attack: However the bees fail to completely remove the mark the hornets scout left and are soon attacked by a superior enemy. A task force of 30 hornets soon arrives at the hive and mercyless slaughters the defenders. The way the Hornets organize themselves during the attack (they communicate via chemicals) reminds me of what could be called a "decentralized command structure". At the end of the vid they even "resupply" each other: Giant hornets invading a hive of yellow hornets: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I first learned the difference when some "friend" of mine took it into his head to chuck a horseshoe at a hornet's nest with no warning when I was not more then 25" away from it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share Posted September 30, 2013 Very responsible and thoughtful of him. I wonder if both or just one of his brains two neurons were involved in making the decision to throw the horseshoe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Yeah really, I might not have minded if the hornet's had at least correctly identified their attacker. Unfortunately I must have looked guiltier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Unfortunately I must have looked guiltier. Nah, you were just closer. I trust that once the stings healed you succeeded in ambushing your former friend in a dark alley and administering a not-excessively-gentle lesson as to why that kind of behavior is not widely appreciated. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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