Posted on 05/05/2020 2:05:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Just in case you thought giant Asian hornets that can kill people weren’t terrifying enough, a graphic video shows one of the flying terrors stinging a helpless mouse to death. The skin-crawling clip was first posted in 2018, but has since resurfaced amid the murder hornet scourge expected to sweep the US.
The nightmarish minute-and-a-half video, which currently boasts almost 500,000 views on YouTube, shows the orange-and-black brawler locked in a deadly embrace with a mouse on the road in an unknown country. The behemoth hornet, which is the world’s largest at over 2 inches long, eventually emerges the victor and flies away, leaving the poor rodent twitching on the pavement from its multiple stings.
Giant hornets, which reside in the forests of East Asia, have killed up to 50 people a year in Japan using a potent quarter-inch-long stinger that can dissolve human flesh.
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Just tell me how much toilet paper I need to buy!
To kill asian carp which were imported to eat kudzu.
I agree 1000%. Can’t believe the reaction out of people these past few weeks. Disturbing, to say the least.
Oh I’ve seen it. Right there in the post I was replying to for one. People are in freak out mode right now.
I think I recall that very scene from The Outer Limits.
Giant Bugs with cartoon faces. It scared the FK out of me as a child. Even at the age of seven, I didn’t want to discuss it, and look foolish. So now, at the age of 63, I discuss it, w/o worry of looking foolish online.
I was thinking about that last night.
There are lots of pollinators besides the communal bees; but the latter are essential to many of our food plants. When we were going through the worst of colony collapse, I wondered if anyone was studying the idea of some kind of technology to help pollinate the bee-assisted plants. (I was imagining little, delicately operating robots or drones :-)
This is an interesting article:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7ezaq/what-would-happen-if-all-the-bees-died-tomorrow
I have ants pollinating my peaches and blueberries.
Also carpenter bees and miner bees. Wasps and small flower bees are abundant later.
If honeybees grow to a natural size, either wild or on natural size comb, they do better at grooming and removing mites. Most commercial frame comb is a little larger than natural. Or so I have read.
10 years worth.
“Wondering why you think these hornets aren’t dangerous.”
Because he’s a man and not a mouse?
Wonder if the doors to beehives could be made small enough so the big hornets couldn’t get in.
Peonies are one of my favorite flowers. They’ve always got ants crawling all over them ;-)
I haven’t raised bees, and didn’t know this stuff; but found this (?)
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesnaturalcell.htm
Actually, unlike bees, a hornet can sting you over and over. And the venom of THIS hornet is much more toxic than regular, so it IS something to be concerned about.
What happens in Asia should stay in Asia.
Do you live in BC or WA? If not, don’t worry about it. And even if you do: how often are you traipsing around hornet nests? Really? How many times have you been stung more than 10 times in rapid succession by hornet? Really? If your answer to those are: hardly ever, and never. Then NO you still don’t need to worry.
Less than 50 people a year get killed by these things, and they’re native to one of the most densely populated parts of the world. And it’s been here for over 6 months and you’re just now hearing about it. Really people, get over your panic addiction.
MurderHornetNado!!
I need to make sure my chainsaw is oiled and gassed up!
Wait until the Government puts a frigging Laser on these things and sends them out to enforce Social Distancing.
For me it was the earwigs episode on The Twilight Zone. If the Chinese have brain eating earwigs, I'm definitely going to need more toilet paper.
Check its belly. If it says “Made in Wuhan” we are all screwed. Again.
“Follow them back to the nest and ignite.”
That will facilitate global warming.
Not only were the bugs scary looking, but they made a horrifying sound which terrified me.
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