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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_hornet_video.html
Full video where hornets destroy honeybee nest first. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51*shivers*
- Zm3r3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29I hope that hand was very, very small!!
- mathew_bug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25So, you +digg it, you like the first picture YET you report the story...Right.....
- scanman20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Call me when they have friggin lasers.
- Cbeck527, on 10/12/2007, -12/+36O RLY?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1809&
Hornets.. FROM HELL - cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Yes. The Asian Hornet studies its prey very hard, and then attacks. Ultimately it wins by building better electronics and automobiles.
- Pseudorious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I am personally in favor of horney Asians.
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I get shivers when i see how big it is. We're much bigger than it is but our evolutionary instict causes us to choose flight mode..
- expertninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12For some reason I am thinking Starship Troopers.
- musteval, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Like women!
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10" Thorax and propodeum with golden tint, scutellum large with a medial deeply-impressed line, postscutellum bulging and overhanging the propodeum, beneath the postcutellum in transverse hollow produced triangularly down from the middle and continued as a medial furrow to the apex of the propodeum."
That's what she said.
But seriously, that is one monster wasp -- just look at the hive!
Edit: "Additional this gigantic, voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger (6.35mm)! People are usually not the Japanese giant hornet's prey, but those who have felt its sting describe the pain as excruciating and very painful. Masato Ono, an entomologist at Tamagawa University, near Tokyo, said it's "like a hot nail through my leg."
1/4 inch stinger. When I go to Asia, I'm bringing a flame thrower. - ductions, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9oh god. i hate these, just looking at the photos makes me itch all over. its in my sleeve!
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan%u2014the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. "
Now that is scary. In the video, you see how these hornets just rip the honeybees in half; these hornets have gone to the top of the list of bugs I don't want to encounter. I think I can out run a tarantula, but these hornets work in groups, and they fly. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10> They were attacking regular bees, it was gruesome.
All venomous social insects in large numbers are "horrible monsters" under the right circumstances. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9...and the most interesting part isn't even about the Hornets, but about tryptophan, Vaam, and eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Wow... talk about tangents.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"instict causes us to choose flight mode.."
That or a flame thrower...
Seriously, that hornet's nest... I actually would consider it... - tastic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the giant hornets will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The Bees have their own defense also: Japanese Honeybee's Thermal Defense
The Japanese giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia japonica, preys on other species of bees and wasps. When a solitary hunter finds a nest, it marks it with a secretion from its van der Vecht gland. Other hornets in the area congregate to the area, and they begin a mass attack on the colony. While they are efficient at wiping out hives of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera (they are killed at rates as high as 40 per minute), the native Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, has an interesting defense against the predatory hornet! The Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion, and attack incoming hornets en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47º C (117º F), which is above the upper lethal limit range of 44-46 degrees for the hornet. This temperature is too high for the hornet, which quickly expires, but does not harm the honeybees.This temperature does not aversely affect the honeybees because their upper lethal limit is slightly higher, 48-50 degrees. - Fihiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I saw that on discovery, those are horrible monsters. They were attacking regular bees, it was gruesome.
- WeThePeople, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Cool Video of these Hornets in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-qMBHuCUo&search=hornets%20from%20hell
original video location http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_hornet_video.html - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's a wasp, not a hornet, an Asian Giant Hornet makes that thing look anorexic.
- ikiryou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Apparently, since late last year, their numbers have been increasing in Japan thanks to a new diet of sishi and green tea:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1841126,00.html
Ohsuzumebati, ganbatte ne. - Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Why are all small thing inherently creepy and why do the small things have to have freakin' huge cousins?
It's just like the giant crabs at the bottom of the ocean that get to be the size of Volkswagen Beatles... - Pseudorious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But could they take down "Africanized" killer bees?
- lonelycanuck, on 10/20/2007, -3/+6same here.
that sh** was scary - ThorbjorgX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Damn, just another thing we have to worry about. West Nile, Norwalk, Avian Flu, now THIS?
- rasbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i think its kinda funny how smoothly this transformed into a advertisement for a sports drink
- liquidcoooled, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Metabolife - thats a really good link.
It shows both sides of the battle.
European wussy bees don't know how to fight the massive hornets, but the native ones do. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@brainScan
You sir, are a moron.
There's a difference between staying the same species and learning how to accomplish a task, and turning into an entirely new species. - megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3European honeybees employ the same method against yellow jackets, the difference being that yellow jackets require far fewer bees to cook.
- banjokazooie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Why are bugs so scary?!? Hell, i'd wanna Nuke one of those beasts. And how could that guy let it crawl on his hand? *shudder* If i saw one of those, i'd run like hell... The last thing the world needs is a bug that size.
- parasitewasp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd love to have a wasp box in my back yard, they are so cool. My wasps are tiny and can wiggle through household screen. I'm sure the guy who had the wasp on his hand removed the stinger first and the picture was to show the size of the wasp.
- Kaioshin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What bothers me about hornets is the sound them make. That always makes me twitch.
Now if these are bigger than the European ones... ugh. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm still wondering if the guy who filmed the hive attack released the wasps on purpose to do that, which to me is really sadistic.
- chess007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Pretty interesting. Reminds me of the wasp that preys on spiders. I forget what its called.
Anyway, if you ever find yourself in mortal combat with any flying insect/bug/bee/whatever, (or any other bug/spider) the best weapon is oven degreaser (the kind you can spray.) I watched my friend take on a whole hive of hornets and not get stung once. I think its the lye in the degreaser. Its like shooting down zero's. lol They get hit, and they crash. - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well.. according to wikipedia in some mountain villages in Japan, they do eat them. Deep fried or hornet sashimi.
- fatcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3they should figure out how to like de-claw them so they could be pets like turantulas
- brainScan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11I wonder how the Asian honeybees "learned" to attack the hornets, and why haven't the European honeybees figured it out? Do you think that the Asian bees wrote a book on the "Art of Hornet War", but the European bees couldn't translate it? Maybe it was passed down by oral history from mother queen to daughter queen. All joking aside... all of this evidence for evolution all around us, and in the US, people are fighting to have it banned from science classes!!! Think people!!!!
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Question 3. If it takes 3 hours for 30 giant hornets to attack and kill 30,000 European honeybees, how many bee's would it take to kill 10 000 European bees?
- senormouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2(Checking the real estate ads right now for "homes above the Arctic Circle")
- SilentPurity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Can I eat them?
- sarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i live in a coastal area of hokkaido(japan) and we have these every summer. they swarm around the boats bringing in the seaweed.
I have been stung twice by these and beleve me it hurts.
And for those of you thinking these are like european hornets, no way i am from england originaly and i would say these can be up to twice as big.
Its the season for these now so ill try and catch one and photo it for you to see. - Luanialus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The bugs I'm sure would say similar things about we primates.
- Tomguruken36, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where the ***** is my electric fly swater..
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"If a colony of about 30.000 European honeybees (Apis mellifera) were to be attacked by 30 giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia japonica) they would be wiped out in 3 hours."
Holycrap ..... - haunted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dugg for Simpsons reference.
Um . . . hornets on a plane? - Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you show me a picture of a crab thats the size of a VW beatle, and ill show you a LIAR!!
- unamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what the hell is it doing on his hand!?!?
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