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 random, halfbakery