Giant hornets in China, kill 42 people!
 

Man, I have never seen a hornet this huge!! These monsters have killed 42 people in China so far, with hundreds in the hospital getting treated after being stung by them. Wait till you open this page and see how big they are!:huh:

http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_ne...aths-rise?lite

Yup... I read this a couple nights ago, scary stuff Ed. Almost prehistoric :o

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No once was enough, thanks ;)

Did Godzilla find his roots in the same place these giant hornets are found? :hmmm:

All kidding aside, those are huge and nasty.

Shouldn't be long before somebody will use them as a food source for something.

Or as a short range biological weapon :hmmm:

Anyone who has played the original Shadow Warrior knows there's only one solution
to big killer bees and that's an Uzi, preferably one in each hand. :hmmm:

What would you do then Dowly, if one landed on your nose?:D

I couldn't imagine what it would be like trying to get away from a swarm of those darn things!

In England they would batter them and fry them ...:yep:

In Thailand they would dip them in chocolate ... :yep:

In South America they would bite the heads off and giggle at the same time :yep:

Bloody hell :o

Is this the same story as this one?

http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/at-l...ks-in-shaanxi/

Markus

http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/u...s-in-China.jpg

:huh:

Hmm, they do not seem to be so much bigger than hornets in Germany.
They are no threat here though, unless you get too near to their hive, which is very small b.t.w.. And near means really near, less than 10 centimeters. Any more distance and they will usually ignore you, unless you anger them with a stick.

We sat on a balcony eating cake, and a hornet's hive was in the upper corner of said balcony. No problem at all, they were less interested than wasps, which would have landed immediately on our cake - not so the hornets. They just flew away directly into the woods, and came back. The sound was unusal though, a deep drone but not really threatening.

And a sting does really really hurt, but you would not get killed by it .. happened to me when i sat down on one, in my car.

I prefer hornets to wasps.

Like CatFish said, they're a lot less agresive, even when you're near a hive.

they are intelligent. they know you are trying to steal the honey.
http://www.allthetests.com/quiz28/pi...94145062_6.jpg


oh wait...

Thanks for that pic Ducimus, not like I won't have nightmares about that,lol And Dowly ain't helping either!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

I think these are the same wasps that nat geo did a documentary on, the ones that raid the honey bee hives and pillage the hive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdCI9KrQcaM

zoinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBrNKdkLz3o

other Japanese critters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ortFzKzyo