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The internet suffers from several diseases, and Wikipedia is often the internet in microcosm. One of the diseases is the compulsive need to whack the hive.
Human beings can't resist this in real life: passing a bee hive, people will often give it a good whack just to set the bees buzzing. Done often enough, the bees will respond by attacking, and that leads to the exterminators being called to kill the dangerous bees.
On Wikipedia, there are two main types of hive whacking.