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Product: Toy: Living Farm
Hornet Farm   (+10, -4)  [vote for, against]
Learn about nature the hard way

A little glass box with sand so you can watch hornets build their colony and dig tunnels in the sand. There could even be a certificate in the box giving you one vote for when they choose their queen. (You have to send away to Uncle Milt for the hornets and Queen applicants.)
-- phunklerot, Aug 25 2000

The Onion: Ant Farm http://www.theonion...n3621/ant_farm.html
[Monkfish, Aug 25 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Wasp Vacuum http://www.halfbake.../idea/Wasp_20Vacuum
[LoriZ, Oct 17 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Makes a great gift.
-- thumbwax, Sep 16 2000


It could come with a little syringe full of adrenalin to counter the anaphylactic shock when you get stung.

Fun for all the family...
-- Haemavore, Sep 24 2000


"Will the hornets discover the Hornetarium™'s secret passage? Will they learn how to operate the tiny levers that lie at the end of the Hornetarium™'s secret passage? Will they work out which combination of lever presses sets them free? Small parts - not for children under three years of age."
-- hippo, Sep 25 2000


The window hive sounds cool. I wish we had one in our school. But then again our school is really cheap so they'd probably all escape or die or something.

Maybe I could train them to be my secret army and feed them special chemicals to make them grow to giant size...
-- chud, Oct 26 2000


Phunklerot obviously writes for Saturday Night Live. Maybe that's why I like this idea so much. You could advertise them in the back of such Kiddie Komix as "Ritchie Rich" and draw a little Queen Bee with pearls and a vacuum cleaner and a Dad Bee reading the paper, and Junior with...wait. That was Sea Monkeys.
-- rachele, Dec 02 2000


My dad and I once raided a hornet's nest with a vacuum cleaner. Took the better part of a day. Used a shop vac with about a ten foot rigid piece on the end of the hose, with the cone thing on the end. Placed it near the entrance to the hive, which was a little hole in a brick wall, and got returning insects on the way in, as well as ones leaving.
-- LoriZ, Oct 10 2001


So what did you do with ten gallons of pissed off yellowjackets then?
-- StarChaser, Oct 12 2001


I remember reading a story about a woman in Germany who used a vacuum cleaner to deal with a wasps' nest. They were still buzzing inside the vacuum cleaner, so she held it over the un-lit gas stove until the buzzing stopped. She then switched the vacuum cleaner on again and blew her apartment up.
-- angel, Oct 12 2001


hold on...let me stop crying...*gasp*...
-- 1MilesWest2, Oct 31 2001


youd have to leave the vacuum running or the live ones would just fly back out the tube or if you removed the bag/filters then they would either get mashed by the fan or fired out the back at high speed
-- chud, Jan 27 2002


-chud "Jan. 27 2002" ?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 17 2002



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