Wasp Up?

The mother of all yellowjacket nests:

Johnathon Simkins, co-owner of Insect IQ, was staring down a yellow jacket colony about the size of a Smart car that posed a lethal danger to hunters and lumberjacks on a thousand-acre timber lot in Central Florida. It took him two days to vanquish the three-to-five-year-old colony, which housed a thousand queen wasps and a million “daughters.”

“When I first went out there, this colony was camouflaged. I didn’t even see it until we walked up to it.” But they saw him. Sentry yellow jackets buzzed toward him to check him out when he was still 40 metres away. Clad in two bee suits, the veteran stinging insect expert stirred up the nest a few times to study the wasps’ method of defence.

“The noise was amazing. It was like a yellow jacket tornado coming for me. The alarm pheromone was so strong it made my eyes water and my nose run. When they land on you, they regurgitate so the others can find you.”

Now see, that's why we have flamethrowers.