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In early May, Harry Coker of Tallassee, Alabama, peered into his parked 1955 Chevy and saw a yellow-jacket nest “the size of a spare tire” on the floor of the backseat. Six weeks later, Coker went back—and found the nest had grown to fill the entire car. Yellow jackets normally construct hives no bigger than a basketball, populated by one queen and at most 3,000 workers. But this year, giant nests are cropping up all over Georgia and Alabama. Auburn University entomologist Charles Ray has documented at least 60, some containing 100,000 workers and hundreds of queens. Ray finds the sudden phenomenon puzzling but speculates that warmer lows in winter—January was six degrees above average this year in Alabama—allowed workers usually killed off by cold to survive into spring, altering the behavior of some colonies.

Yep, we had a big thread on the Steven King style yellow-jacket nests last year. Super creepy, and neat in a creepy kind of way.

Global warming and bees don't mix.:D

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Fark Headline - Swarms of giant hornets invade France, accept nation’s surrender, now headed for Britain. EVERYBODY PANIC

Oh, the story is from "THE SUN", never mind.:D

Link:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007080651,00.html

lol, nothing in Belgian or Dutch media about it
and i'de think they'de arrive here before they even cross the channel

Isn't "THE SUN" a tabloid magazine where 50% of the stories are true and 50% are fake, and it's fun for the reader to figure out which is which?

50% true??? i think that's optimistic

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ah lovely Aurora.

dont let the innocent look fool you. girl is NASTY

Yep, hot and innocent looking, but a nasty freak, no doubt about it.

Pictures like those really make me miss surfing.
Dave

Joseph Cyril Bamford (JCB).
Current boss Sir Anthony Bamford. Owns more classic cars than pretty much anyone on earth.
If you watch Alain DeCadanet's TV programs, most of the track footage is at Mr B's private track. Plus you will see a small JCB logo on a lot of the cars driven.

BTW, in the U.K. ALL backhoes are refered to as JCBs, just like all vacuum cleaners are Hoovers.

I worked at JCB from 1970 to 1978 - I'll dig out some pics.

Jcb Rocester Uttoxeter Staffordshire UK


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LOve that tune!