Locals who spotted strange dome-shaped structures appearing in the identical same place under balconies at a newly built high-rise tower block were shocked to find they were hornet nests.
The footage was shot at a building in Xi County which is in the southwest Chinese province of Shanxi and the building is apparently currently unoccupied.
The man who shot the footage, identified only as Mr Zhang, said that the buildings are currently empty because it has just been completed and that nobody had been looking up recently because of a spate of heavy rains.
But once it stopped, they noticed the strange dome-shaped structures across five or six floors getting smaller as they went higher, with the way they were so regularly spaced making him wonder if they had been deliberately put there as a deterrent.
He said: “I was on my way to work when I saw the nests. They got successively smaller as they went higher, and I was joking that instead of installing anti-burglary devices, they had arranged for the insects to help them out.”
Many Chinese high-rise homes are fitted with anti-theft nets that make it impossible for people to climb up from below in order to steal anything, and many said that this was a cheaper alternative.
