Plus why did Hinata's trap involve flying down a water cavern? You'd think they could just have one deadly bee sting her instead.Finally, bees willing to sacrifice their lives with hundreds of explosive tags seems a little bit much for a bug user. It almost makes anything Shino do worthless unless his bugs always had tags strung to them as well. Sort of takes the fun and strategy out of the bug war.
They didn't really want to kill her,they even told her not to move so that she would'nt fall down the waterfall. The bugs with the explosive tags weren't the real bugs. This ep was great I'm starting to enjoy this arc more then the second half of the rescue Sasuke arc(after Neji fight of course). I wanna see another appearence of the two headed dog so I hope Kiba and Akimaru fuse togather again to fight the giant bee.