A little science, from Uncle Monk
This is the Asian giant hornet, it is 5x larger than the europian honey bee, and 3 stings from it is fatal to the average adult. It's stinger is 1/4 of an inch long and injects a venom that stimulates the pain nerve fibres more than bee or other wasp venoms, so that it is a bit more painful.
The Asian giant hornet is a relentless hunter that preys on other large insects such as bees, other hornet species, and praying mantises.
The hornets often attack honeybee hives with the goal of obtaining the honeybee larvae. The hornets can devastate a colony of honeybees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honeybees per minute; it takes only a few of these hornets a few hours to exterminate the population of a 30,000-member honeybee hive, leaving a trail of severed insect heads and limbs. Once a hive is emptied of all defending bees, the hornets carry the honeybee larvae back to feed to their own larvae.
Rather than consume their kills directly, the hornets chew them into a paste and feed them to their larvae (adult hornets being unable to digest solid protein). The hornet larvae, in return, produce a clear liquid which the adults consume.
All i can say is i'm glad we don't have any of those fuckers around NW Arkansas, hell the four state area for that matter!!!
This is the Asian giant hornet, it is 5x larger than the europian honey bee, and 3 stings from it is fatal to the average adult. It's stinger is 1/4 of an inch long and injects a venom that stimulates the pain nerve fibres more than bee or other wasp venoms, so that it is a bit more painful.
The Asian giant hornet is a relentless hunter that preys on other large insects such as bees, other hornet species, and praying mantises.
The hornets often attack honeybee hives with the goal of obtaining the honeybee larvae. The hornets can devastate a colony of honeybees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honeybees per minute; it takes only a few of these hornets a few hours to exterminate the population of a 30,000-member honeybee hive, leaving a trail of severed insect heads and limbs. Once a hive is emptied of all defending bees, the hornets carry the honeybee larvae back to feed to their own larvae.
Rather than consume their kills directly, the hornets chew them into a paste and feed them to their larvae (adult hornets being unable to digest solid protein). The hornet larvae, in return, produce a clear liquid which the adults consume.
All i can say is i'm glad we don't have any of those fuckers around NW Arkansas, hell the four state area for that matter!!!
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those hornets lok pretty fudking scarry!
hope you are having a good week
Thanks for the offer, my old vcr used to play ntsc, but not sure about my new one. Might just get the box set when it comes out, anyway.