Originally posted by the Bear:
[b]Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia
japonica)
From:
Japan, obviously.
Why you must fear
it:
It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison.
We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic
effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch
acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it
shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone
cocktail in it that'll call every hornet in the hive to come over
and sting you until you are no longer alive?
Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It'd be nice
to say something reassuring at this point, like "Don't worry, they
only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to
live," but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including
outside Tokyo.
Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.
More scary
shit:
Here's how the Japanese hornet treats other insects (and would
presumably treat us, if we were small enough). An adult hornet will
fly miles to find some squishy shit to feed to its children. Often
times, it finds its food in, say, a hive inhabited by thousands of
bees.
What to do? Well, Vespa japonica sprays the nest with some of the
acid/pheromone and brings in reinforcements, usually consisting of
30 or so fellow hornets. They then descend upon the beehive like an
unholy plague of hell-born death engines and proceed to make this
world a scary goddamned place. This is maybe 30 wasps against
30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.
Video Clip => Japanese Giant Hornet
(Hardcore Insect Violence)
Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws
and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking
one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just
fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one
point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with
all the bee's children. Who will then be eaten.
Nature is fucking hardcore.
[/b]
No no no. Those being attacked are EUROPEAN honey bees. The Jap
ones can easily kill off these so-called killing machines.
How? The Jap ones simply swarm over the hornet and suffocates it to
death. Notice th euro ones simply do one-to-one duels with each
hornet, which is sucide? The Jap bees make it look so easy.
Haha, you mean nature is balanced when it comes to such things.
