Giant Japanese Hornets: They Scare You to Death
As you may have seen with my entry about Tarsiers, I have become rather interested in unique creatures that somewhat scare the shit out of me. What you see below is a Giant Japanese Hornet, and from the looks of things, you never want to meet one.
These hornets live right outside Tokyo, can fly upwards of 50 miles a day, and presumably kill around 40 people each year.
Image Credit to Muenster
While stopping by Digg.com today, I also read this hilarious comment… “Instead of stinging you, it just scares you to death.” I then proceeded to continue doing research on these gigantic hornets periodically throughout the day.
The video below, courtesy of National Geographic gives a first look into how these creatures live and behave, which is “aggressive” to say the least. Here the giant hornets band together to slaughter an entire European honeybee hive within minutes. Not purely for the sake of terror, some evolution babble has to go into the frenzy. The hornets need the honeybee larvae which they feed to their own offspring for weeks.
Cracked.com listed the hornet as one of the “5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World.”
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March 1st, 2009 at 7:26 pm #T B
you are so funny i cant stop laughing out loud
March 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm #Christina
This is super creepy. I can’t get over it. I wonder how you would kill one of these things.
August 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm #walter kim
it is so redonkulus man and my broter ran kraze
August 17th, 2009 at 1:18 pm #walter kim
that thing is ugly as hell
August 17th, 2009 at 1:22 pm #walter kim
manit is a pice of fuc an thing
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 am #Beeyond
Christina, these hornets are easily killed by bees; however, these particular bees lack the programming to do it. Other bee species kill hornets such as these by enveloping them in a bee ball. This mass of bees then buzz their mightiest resulting in great temperatures within the ball. You’d be surprised how hot it actually gets. The hornet is promptly cooked to death.
August 18th, 2010 at 7:13 am #juggalo
i have seen one of these outside my high school in Hendersonville North Carolina yesterday
September 6th, 2010 at 9:24 pm #Joseph
this horrifing creature crawled up my jacket today and bite the living shit outtta me. to the point i had to go to the hospital to git the proper meds to get rid of the pain and continious sting, and it , the swelling kept growing. next time i see one the s.o. b.s they are gonna be like all of these pesty pests. DEAD. they look nassty, and theyre sting is one of the worst i have ever felt. Hospital gave me some antiswelling pills imeadeadly, and sent me home to get some steroids. if you see one of these nasty critters, if your close enough to kill it, do so, of not, git some hornet spray, and shoot the shit outta em. I work in da woods cutting trees, for a living , and have to be constantly have to be on the lookout for spiders, bees, and snakes. Dang if i dont git bitten in my own front yard. sorry to say, these things are scarry looking, and dangerous if bitten. Now it looks like im not gonna be working tomorrow cause of this japaaneese fkn hornet.
September 9th, 2010 at 5:15 pm #Jake
Man, these hornets are put on this earth for one thing only… To fuck shit up… That’s the only reason…