Widely seen on the ineternet is the Japanese killer hornet.



What is often forgotten is that we have our own monstrous stinging shithead. Now, i carry an epi-pen because of bee sting allergy. These phvckers are nasty. I cought one in my kitchen this morning.




Here it is next to my thumb. The bastard was stinging the shit out of the scrubby pad. As soon as i put my thumb there it hopped to that spot and started stinging the pad there. Mean son of a bitch.



I measure it with the end of the fly swatter, and then the fly swatter against my thumb. From the end of the stinger to the round part of its face. It was as long as my thumb. Gahhahahhahahh, it went for a swim in the garbage disposal.

Why were you in the same room?....er house.....continent???

We have them and Bald Face Hornets here.

I terminate with extreme prejudice.

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Originally posted by Jaycat:
Why were you in the same room?....er house.....continent???

When I was 2, or 2.5 i stuck my left hand into a ground wasp nest. It swelled up and then atrophied considerably. I had been left-handed till that point. I still often try and kick left, carry my wallet/keys in the left pocket etc. It was about 7-8 months according to my mom and great-grandmother ( now passed) that started to use it regularly. In that time, I learned to use my right hand. I have used my right hand ever since. I have been stung by swarms a number of times in my younger life. I remember many of the times vividly. Hornets, wasps, yellow jackets, wood boring etc. In most cases I would see one of the damn bastards, I would lock up, not being able to move to get an instant spike of fear, adrenaline, and bam they would be all over me. I was 12 or so the last time it happened. Wood-boring black and white bitches in a 4 foot high pile of poplar and birch logs. I was 8-10 feet away. I saw one fly out of the pile land on a log, then another, then one more. I froze in fear. After that incident. I connected the frear and the freezing to something that triggered the shits to attack. Since then, I just move on, kill the fuckers or ignore them.

No freaking way my thumb would have been near that bastard! Not sure who the person is in the top photos holding the Japanese Hornet, but also no damn way I would hold even a dead one. I hate hornets and wasps.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

My kind of Woman. I'll bet under those coveralls she has a body that could grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.

PS; it's also how I would prefer to deal with Wasps and Hornets.

Hornets and wasps are to be hunted and eradicated on sight. I don't care what I'm in the middle of, if I see one I have to go kill it.

The only good thing about the European hornet is that it is a clumsy, slow flier. They are easy to kill compared to the Bald Faced Hornet or Yellojacket.

I watched a nature special where the Japanese (Asian Hornet) hornets discovered a European Hornets nest (what you’re calling bells). It was no contest. The Asian hornets absolutely destroyed them down to the last larva.

Asian hornets are unique in several ways. Instead of harboring one queen, there might be dozens of queens-in-waiting in the nest. They can leave the nest at any time and start a new colony immediately.

The Asians are also one of the most toxic and painful stinging wasps known. They kill several people a year, sometimes from a single sting or attack.

The Asians will also pursue and attack, much like an Africanized honeybee. They give of a warning sound when agitated, and can press an attack well beyond the nest location.

If they find a European honeybee nest, a few dozen of them can utterly destroy it and make off with every scrap of food.

Through evolution, Japanese honeybees have devised a defense, at least to single scouts. They will rush the intruder, envelop it in a mass, and as a group, vibrate their bodies creating heat. The combined heat cooks the hornet to death, thereby keeping the nests location a secret.

Thanks for reminding me - I found one of these inside our lake cabin last spring. Took me most of summer to get comfortable it was a one-off and I wasn't going to wake up to a swarm on my head.

I'll be back there this weekend. And unable to sleep thanks to this thread....

[Steve Irwin]

Krike, look what we ave ere. It's a big fuckin wasp. This is the lawgest most deadly wasp in the world. I think I'll let it land on me dick so we can get a good look at the size of this bugger. Ain't she a beaut. I'm gonna try and get it to roll over on it's back, sos I can rub it's belly. We should be able to get a look at the 3 inch deadly stinger. Oh yeah, there it is. Would ya look at the size of OUCH. OH SHIT. SON OF A BITCH THAT URTS. GET THIS DAMN THING OFF ME. OH MY GAWD. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

Wasps and hornets get a bad wrap. They're only really upsets
Because the bees we imported are dominating all the resources they want.

Awww. How cute!

Around here...the cicada hawks really freak folks out (they ARE big)...they are pretty much benign (unless you are a cicada)...I have a photo I took on an old cell phone years ago where one landed on my hand and walked up and down my arm (and was quite intrigued with my arm hairs) until she was over the hairy arm and flew away on her quest for tasty cicadas...
I always have one nesting under my storage building every year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus