Some Bad a** Hornets!

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This is a hornet that i just saw on "Worlds Deadliest Animals: Asia" the other day, and i couldn't get over it, they are called "Giant Hornets"
They are over 2" long with a wingspan of 3"
Their stinger is 6 mm long
20-40 people die each year from this insect.

This is a video of 30 Giant hornets destroying a colony of 30,000 bees!
(*note, at 1:21 you can see a hornet literally biting a bee clean in half)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23GFc0KG4c
ENJOY!

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hornet hand.jpg
 
That's a bad boy right there. We used to have something similar when i lived in Arizona. They were call tarantula wasps and were just a little bigger than that. I don't know if anyone ever died from a sting though.
Here's a good link to them. http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
 
What's even more interesting is that bee's in Asia have developed a defense mechanism against these guys. They swarm over the wasp/hornet and vibrate at high levels to raise body temperature. They literally cook the hornets alive! Around 120 degree's.
 
Diskboy12;3372839; said:
I think I saw that show as well, I would be terrified to live in the hills of Japan wit those suckers!
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yeah, after watching that show i think Australia would be the worst though haha ;)
 
fishtex;3372749; said:
That's a bad boy right there. We used to have something similar when i lived in Arizona. They were call tarantula wasps and were just a little bigger than that. I don't know if anyone ever died from a sting though.
Here's a good link to them. http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
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Thouse are Pepsi sp or a related species and the size its what they have in comon with giant wasps as these live a completly diferent lifestyle;) They are solitary wasps, after mating the female hunts for tarantulas wich she paralizes and then burryes alongside one egg, the wasp larvae will then hach and feed on the paralized body of the tarantula.
 
dirtyblacksocks;3372763; said:
What's even more interesting is that bee's in Asia have developed a defense mechanism against these guys. They swarm over the wasp/hornet and vibrate at high levels to raise body temperature. They literally cook the hornets alive! Around 120 degree's.
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they have to go through all of that work just to kill one hornet, all the hornet has to do is chomp them in half haha
 
I saw this show quite some time ago. The crazy thing about the bees killing the wasps in that manner is that they actually only produce one or two degrees more than wasps can handle, if I remember right. Also I think they said that they aren't sure how the bees coordinate the attack but one minute the bees are going about their business and then all of a sudden they just swarm a wasp all in the same instant. Pretty cool to think that they evolved such a precise and specifically targeted defense mechanism.
 
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