"This film about Japanese giant hornets is nightmarish but strangely beautiful. It charts the clashing fortunes of hornets and honeybees in a mountain valley. If you like your wildlife cute and cuddly, or you're phobic about stripey things that sting, steer clear; but you'll be missing something extraordinary. The narrative has the odd slow patch, but every few minutes there's an action scene to make your jaw drop: a fight to the death between a hornet and a mantis, a massacre of 30,000 honeybees by hornet warriors, bees mobbing an orchid that smells like their enemy's pheromones. The photography is so good that at times it's like watching excerpts from a sci-fi horror flick called something like War of the Wasps. The end result is hauntingly, memorably weird. Not least the scene where we see some local beekeepers tucking into a favourite snack: deep-fried hornets."
So if you don't fancy Grand Designs or the Apprentice at 9pm this evening, watch this on channel two. Natural World baby x x
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I wish I'd read this before I watched Grand Designs.
Bop, Post-Bop, Hard Bop says:
savour it - they do at times veer into humanising their intentions, but look out for Japanese honeybees and their Heat Death Trap
HAL-9000 says:
Humanising the intentions of insects is something I love the most out of all things
Well I have it on video Adam. you can borrow it if you like. The video also has some episodes of Eastenders which my sister records.
I wish Giant Hornets would battle Eastenders. Just a thought.
I might borrow it.
Eastenders tends to deal with highly politicized current affairs.
So perhaps if Giant hornets illegally seek refuge in Walford, perhaps stealing all their jobs. (working in the Vic, the video shop...) then in a strange turn of events one of the Giant Hornets leaves Dot her larvae...
Didn't that happen in 1996? Just after the last time I watched that crock?
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