07-04-2019, 07:35 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Wasp/yellowjacket "super nests" popping up in Alabama
Things of nightmares.
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Usually, the state's wasp nests are built on the ground and are about the size of a volleyball, housing 4,000 to 5,000 wasps. But the super nests — or perennial yellow jacket nests — can get big as a Volkswagen Beetle and contain upwards of 15,000 of the stinging creatures.
Usually, wasps either freeze to death in the winter or starve due to a lack of available food. But if the winter doesn't get cold enough, the wasp colonies survive.
"And the other thing that's happening is rather than having a single queen start the spring with maybe a thousand or 4,000 workers that made it through the winter, they all start with 35 to 150 queens and each one of those queens can produce, over her lifetime, 20,000 eggs," he said.
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...bama-1.5197104
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