(playing Devil's advocate)
Take into consideration that these insects have competence. That means they know their own capabilities and more than likely they will strike when they feel ready. Hornets and yellow jackets are pretty heavy duty and produce giant hives. They more warriorish. Hornets may also be able to carry army ants on their backs meaning they can air drop those nasty asses on their enemies.

Lets look at rationing and food. You have honey bees, which make massive amounts of honey. In facts, they make more honey than necessary at times. Then there are the leafcutters who make fungus food farms. This is a secondary food source. The mass production would allow the armies to be well fed around the world. This means that honey bees and the leafcutter workforce will be kept behind the scenes.

I'll go on about their military numbers and strategies their new found competence would possibly allow soon.

Quote from: Sᴏʟᴏɴᴏɪᴅ on July 12, 2015, 10:19:20 PM

Quote from: I_IRONMAN_I on July 12, 2015, 09:06:04 PM

(playing Devil's advocate)
Take into consideration that these insects have competence. That means they know their own capabilities and more than likely they will strike when they feel ready. Hornets and yellow jackets are pretty heavy duty and produce giant hives. They more warriorish. Hornets may also be able to carry army ants on their backs meaning they can air drop those nasty asses on their enemies.

Lets look at rationing and food. You have honey bees, which make massive amounts of honey. In facts, they make more honey than necessary at times. Then there are the leafcutters who make fungus food farms. This is a secondary food source. The mass production would allow the armies to be well fed around the world. This means that honey bees and the leafcutter workforce will be kept behind the scenes.

I'll go on about their military numbers and strategies their new found competence would possibly allow soon.

We have napalm.

gg

Unless the insects, with their competence, create a contraption that allows them to use flight craft. If you don't think its possible for them to do so... Refer to this nightmare.

Spoiler

At this scale, they could create a contraption that allows them to pilot an aircraft (it may require a large of pilots, but the swarms of ant-totting wasps/hornets would be absolutely horrifying.

Napalm wouldn't matter when an insect infested aircraft:
a) flies overhead and releases the swarm. And if jets are involved, then they're actually hurting their own troops because shooting at a swarm of insects is as worthful as shooting peas falling out of the sky with a machine gun. From a distance.
b)the plane crashes into the troop and still unleashes the swarm. Flood-style.

It's a viable situation. And scary too.

Quote from: Sᴏʟᴏɴᴏɪᴅ on July 12, 2015, 10:51:19 PM

Quote from: I_IRONMAN_I on July 12, 2015, 10:48:00 PM

Quote from: Sᴏʟᴏɴᴏɪᴅ on July 12, 2015, 10:19:20 PM

Quote from: I_IRONMAN_I on July 12, 2015, 09:06:04 PM

(playing Devil's advocate)
Take into consideration that these insects have competence. That means they know their own capabilities and more than likely they will strike when they feel ready. Hornets and yellow jackets are pretty heavy duty and produce giant hives. They more warriorish. Hornets may also be able to carry army ants on their backs meaning they can air drop those nasty asses on their enemies.

Lets look at rationing and food. You have honey bees, which make massive amounts of honey. In facts, they make more honey than necessary at times. Then there are the leafcutters who make fungus food farms. This is a secondary food source. The mass production would allow the armies to be well fed around the world. This means that honey bees and the leafcutter workforce will be kept behind the scenes.

I'll go on about their military numbers and strategies their new found competence would possibly allow soon.

We have napalm.

gg

Unless the insects, with their competence, create a contraption that allows them to use flight craft. If you don't think its possible for them to do so... Refer to this nightmare.

Spoiler

At this scale, they could create a contraption that allows them to pilot an aircraft (it may require a large of pilots, but the swarms of ant-totting wasps/hornets would be absolutely horrifying.

Napalm wouldn't matter when an insect infested aircraft:
a) flies overhead and releases the swarm. And if jets are involved, then they're actually hurting their own troops because shooting at a swarm of insects is as worthful as shooting peas falling out of the sky with a machine gun. From a distance.
b)the plane crashes into the troop and still unleashes the swarm. Flood-style.

It's a viable situation. And scary too.

It would take an eternity to construct something like that.

Not to mention that we still have missiles and flamethrowers.
Release a swarm my ass, flamethrowers.

Which is why they can prep till they feel ready. If they're brilliant enough, they could research means of fireproofing themselves.

Also option b (crashing plane) could be used via smashing said plane into the flamethrower guys. And don't disregard the ants. They could create tunnels and next thing you know you have wasps and hornets erupting out of the ground underneath you.