Skip to content

cult of hornets

by mike on July 12th, 2004

We discovered a hornet’s next on the back porch today. It wasn’t all that big, but the hornets that lived there definitely were! The weird part is that Jodi saw a hornet put a dead cicada (the 17-year bugs are back — cool!) between the planks of wood on the back porch. Turns out there were several cicadas filed neatly in a row wedged between two boards, apparently arranged by the hornets. Odd.
hornetshornets

From → journal

8 Comments
  1. Travis permalink

    According to Kritsky, the best time to eat a cicada is just after they break open their youthful skin. "When you eat them when they’re soft and mushy, when they come out of their skin, they taste like cold, canned asparagus," he said.

    I was in DC just after this year’s infestation and someone was telling me about a man who decided to make a meal out of cicadas after seeing a segment on the news about how they were edible. Turns out he was allergic and almost died.
    The lesson here is that anything that tastes like cold, canned asparagus should be left alone.

  2. Mike permalink

    What if you steam them, like you would asparagus?
    Maybe a little dash of lemon?

  3. michael jones permalink

    im from england and those hornets scare the s**t out of me, ive never seem them untill today

  4. Xan-Kun permalink

    I have ALWAYS been scared of bees my WHOLE life and those are just plain…scary……..

  5. Anonymous permalink

    I hate hornets… they scare me too! I heard that they will follow you and attack, is this true and are they deadly? please e mail me.

  6. Randy permalink

    I get stung by wasps, and i hate them so much.
    Last weekend, I caught a black wasp with white stripes,
    Pinned it down and tried to pull the stinger out, but i ended up pulling the guts out its rear, then i burned it with a lighter! i feel so evil haha!!!

  7. Anonymous permalink

    ^^^ wierdo

  8. Nathan permalink

    About a week ago I discovered what appeared to be an extremely small humming bird in a planter in my back yard. After a few nights in a row of seeing this creature, I decided to go outside to get a better look at it. I discovered that it was not, in fact, a humming bird, but a huge type of insect. When I saw the antennae on its head and what appeared to be two sets of wings (I’m not 100% sure about the two sets of wings) I thought it might be a type of bee or hornet since it was sipping from the flowers. It also appeared to have a pointy stinger on its rear-end. It was approximately 2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. It was like no other insect I have ever witnessed. Would you by any chance be able to tell me what kind of humungous bug this is?!

Comments are closed.