Newly Discovered Wasp Has a Terrifyingly Large Stinger

Popular Mechanics ^ | July 8, 2018 | Laura Yan

[C19fan]

Scientists discovered a new wasp species with a terrifyingly large stinger. Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland recently discovered the Clistopyga crassicaudata, which lives between the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforests. "I have studied tropical parasitoid wasps for a long time, but I have never seen anything like it," said Ilari E. Sääksjärvi, a professor at the University of Turku. "The stinger looks like a fierce weapon."

[katana]

Nickname: Johnny Wasp

[Bob434]

I forgot about that- one just never knows when a spontaneous wasp baseball game will come about

[Katydidnt]

The Demon Crown was terrifying and suspiciously close to reality!
The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs.
Yikes!

[NEMDF]

Maybe a shower? We’ll let you know if anything important happens while you’re in the shower.

When I was a child, our next-door neighbor (an elderly man, or so I thought - I was about the age to think 40 was “elderly”), died after falling off a ladder while trying to spray some type of wasp nest.

Hope you got rid of the nest.

[editor-surveyor]

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They have aerosol cans that shoot a 15 foot stream.
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[Starstruck]

I am probably 30 years older than your neighbor. I waited for the wasps to disperse and knocked the nest down. Then I took the shower.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

His stuff ranges from the “not likely” to “I am going to go hide under the bed now”. This was a hide book. Glad to see the Guild back. Good villains are necessary.

[Bonemaker]

"Another “gift” that keeps on giving from South America. "

Eons ago it split off from and drifted away from Africa.

[Tennessee Nana]

and coffee...

[Larry Lucido]

Nothing good comes from the Amazon.

[dfwgator]

There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say ‘save the rainforest’, but what do you know?
You’ve never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes ‘cos caring sells
All you activists can go ____ yourselves.

Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
Its totally gay, it’s totally gay

[Pelham]

Well this particular Amazonian wasp just specializes in feeding on spider eggs. So you may not be in peril.

[catnipman]

yeah, with wasps, i don’t think size matters ... it’s how well they use it ...

[Western Phil]

Prof. Sääksjärvi needs to visit Illinois if he wants to be impressed with an ovipositor:

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1407338

According to http://www.amentinst.org/GIN/Rhyssinae/ “the subfamily Rhyssinae includes some of the most spectacular of all Ichneumonidae. These large conspicuous wasps, the females of which have very long ovipositors and may exceed 200 mm in length.”

[jmacusa]

But... but all cultures are equal and unique and diverse and everyone of them just wants to live in peace and egalitarian peoplehood as we join hand s and dance in a circle 'round the sun.

[jmacusa]

Holy Smokes! The bug world is out to kill us all! Last week there was a story about spiders that use electricity to fly and they could zap us and kill us and now big hairy wasps with giant stingers that can run us through like stuck pigs! That’s it! I’m locking myself in the basement and hiding under and old tub. If anybody wants that’s where I am.

[PLMerite]

Is that a mounting pin or a stripper pole?

[minnesota_bound]

Ant-Man and the Wasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_rTIAOohas

[Rebelbase]

Sounds like you’ve described the Central American portion of the North American Continent not South America.