If you have to ask, you've not experienced full-blown AHB.
As per the video, that level of attack response is pretty common, but I've seen much worse. Notice the guy's ATV. Worse case AHB, and, he'd have been hit by a cloud of bees from that colony before he even shut off the motor.
In TX, we were using a white rental car - never been near any bee gear. We went to look at some abandoned colonies that were reportedly aggressive. Before we even got within sight of the three colonies, we had bees at the car. I had to suit up just to set up a camera on a tripod.
I carefully set up a vibrator on an entrance board, and that was enough to get a bunch of guard bees on the attack, but the colony was still reasonably calm. I had about a dozen bees chasing me, but was able to get back in the car with only a few following me in, which I pinched off.
We had a remote control on the vibrator (it was a red Elmo, tennis-ball sized toy, that jiggled and said, I'm Elmo). After I got back in the car, we waited till the bees calmed down. Then I pushed the button. The vibration of the entrance caused an explosion of bees, as described by Randy. Elmo immediately disappeared under a mass of bees. I mean, you couldn't see Elmo anymore, nor any red color, the bees were layers deep, all over the ball. The rest of the bees from that colony and its two neighbors poured out and attacked the camera and the car! All of this in a ;matter of a few seconds.
We had clouds of bees at the windshield and side windows, pinging off of the windows. My partner nearly freaked. Needless to say, we came back in the evening, after dark, to retrieve the camera and tripod.
Three days later, we went back to check on these colonies. They were about 100 ft into a grove of trees, with a dirt road to the clearing. The bees attacked the car before we even got into the trees. They again mobbed the car, before we were even in sight of the colonies.
This was in the early 2000s. Thankfully, the rental car had screens on the cabin air intake.
Jerry
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