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And its size is comparable to a domestic pussycat.
by gorkemcetin 8y ago
And its size is comparable to a domestic pussycat.
- bitwize 8y agoOhhh, you haven't seen nothing until you've seen the Asian giant hornet. Nearly two inches long, with a quarter-inch-long stinger that's gauranteed to cause immense pain, and may kill you even if you're not allergic. These insects are as vicious as they are huge. If just one invades a honeybee hive, it turns the hive into an insect-scale scene from Attack on Titan, forcing its way in through the entrance, slaughtering bees left and right with one snip from its mandibles. European honeybees have no defense, but Japanese honeybees can defeat a single hornet by surrounding it with a ball of bees which vibrate their wings until the hornet overheats and dies -- and even then many bees inside the ball will be lost. If the single scout hornet makes it out alive, it will return -- with friends. Even a hive of tens of thousands of bees cannot mount an effective defense against just a few hornets, and the hornets will lay waste to the colony in a matter of hours. Nature is a merciless bitch, and some of her creatures are downright horrifying.
- skellera 8y agoThis video amazed me when I first saw it. (I hope there’s a better quality one out there) https://youtu.be/JDSf3Kshq1M https://youtu.be/JDSf3Kshq1M It’s just amazing how much stronger the hornets are.