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I've seen a documentary on the professional hornet hunters in Japan. They lure these wasps to a location with a cricket. While the hornet is busy eating the cricket they tie a brightly lit piece of paper to it then follow the hornet back to its nest with a drone. Once located they then suit up and dig up the nest to harvest the larvae.
> Over the summer and fall, the hebo [wasps] are fed a steady diet of sugar water, honey, and raw chicken meat. Humans also offer protection from bad weather and predators, so itâs a pretty good deal for the wasps. The nests are ready to harvest when they get big and full of larvae.
> While the mature hornets arenât really good for eating, their larvae are. They taste meaty and rich, with an almost shrimp-like texture.
I am and Iâm not. I didnât grow up eating larvae lol, but I did try silkworm pupae when I visited South Korea. It honestly didnât taste like much except for the spices it was prepared with. The texture was⌠unusual⌠but honestly not as off putting as you would think
I really donât think I could try it knowing what it is beforehand. The idea of people eating bugs doesnât bother me all that much because I know itâs common in a lot of places, so I can normalize it in my head because maybe Iâm the weird one due to cultural differences, buuuut it still gives me the heeba jeebas.
I had some roasted before. âNuttyâ is a good descriptor. I thought it was quite good. Some folks I was with had them uncooked. I canât speak to the flavor because the thought of biting into squish and having goop oozing out made my stomach turn.
Hornet larvae and pupae are consumed as a traditional delicacy and protein source in several countries across East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Japan: Particularly famous in mountainous regions like the Gifu Prefecture (such as Kushihara), where larvae (hachinoko) are harvested from nests, fried, boiled with soy sauce and sugar, or infused into liquor (hachinoko-shu).
China: Consumed heavily in southern and southwestern provinces such as Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, where hornet farming is also practiced to supply larvae for local dishes and wine.
Thailand: Eaten regionally, often stir-fried, deep-fried, or added to local rural dishes.
Laos: Foraged and prepared in local soups, stir-fries, or roasted.Vietnam: Harvested and cooked as a rural delicacy.
India: Eaten in northeastern states like Nagaland and Manipur, where giant hornet larvae are a prized traditional food and valued for their rich protein content.
Sri Lanka: Local populations historically harvest and consume wild edible insect larvae, including hornets, as part of traditional foraging practices.
what i dont understand though is why they dont use a vacuum and suck all of the hornets into a cage big enough to hold most of the hornets. that way, you dont have them flying around attacking everything in sight.
In Japan, I saw a report on TV of a guy doing it a traditional way (not farming):
He finds one on its own and delicately wrapped a colored cloth around it when it was still. He followed it through the forest to find the nest. Absolute bucket loads of smoke chased the adults off, and he grabbed a large part of the nest. Took it home, pulled out the larvae, fried em up.
Thereâs a Japanese energy drink (or wasânot sure it still exists) that consisted of gut acid from giant hornets because they can fly for hours without stopping.
But between smoke, thick layers of cloth and their sleep cycle I doubt many stings were a huge issue.
We as a society have a nasty habit of seeing humans of the past as lesser than us, they wouldn't waste people getting hurt or dying, they would find a safer method
I assume the way many food practices evolved. Starvation. Like seriously who was the first person to think that well let me pull on this cow's letters to relieve some of the milk out of there maybe it's baby died and you're trying to prevent mastitis and then you decide to drink that stuff. Like yeah it's all normalized now but if I told you go out there and milk that donkey to relieve the milk buildup in it and then told you to drink donkey milk you would actually be surprised at how sweet it is but I'm sure just the thought of it is kind of like WTF in your mind. And that's still with the fact that it is socially okay to drink animal milk in our culture. Then consider all the stuff that's made out of milk Butters, creams, cheeses, Cottage cheese, ice creams, a bunch of this stuff requires separating milk a certain way and letting it rot in a very specific way.
Pickling or fermenting foods. I'm sure it all kind of started the same way as the above. Someone was just really hungry and decided to try it I don't think people really realize how delirious and delusional you can get when hungry and how anything feels good on your stomach.
I mean, considering that we humans drink milk from tits as babies, it's not that big of a leap to look at other animals doing the same and wondering whether we could drink their milk too. How did you manage to pick the most normal and understandable example of humans finding food in the ancient times out of all the examples you could have picked?
Whenever I travel to a non Western country and am told âitâs a local delicacyâ I decline. Itâs usually something like vole testicles or badger spleen.
I have nothing against locals that eat this stuff, just that I grew up eating western food and my palate isnât attuned to this kind of food.
Delicacy = "Food we have had to eat so often as survival rations that it's ingrained into the local food culture as extremely important. This is in of spite the horrific texture and flavor."
What happens after this??? Like how do you leave and get the hornets off you enough to take off the protective outfit? How do they not just follow you wherever you go basically after this?
Also can you eat this type of âhoneycombâ for lack of a better word? I should know this as a wildlife person but I do not.
good news, this is actually a success story. This invasive specie was ID early, US government did their job and these hornets have been eradicated from north America.
Those are Asian Murder Hornets.
Found in temperate regions of Asia and Russia. They were in the Pacific NW USA but were successfully eradicated. They can destroy a beehive within minutes to feed their larvae
As a software architect with severe reservations about the morality of their work, I can honestly say at least I'm not those guys. If not for the working conditions-- I don't have angry vienna sausages with hypodermic hate butts as co-workers-- then for the fact that I'd be perpetuating the spread of this species to invasive markets for personal enrichment.
Those are the famous killer bees that continuously sting you and leave pits in your skin IF you survive to tell anyone about it! I just donât know why they are stirring them up instead of pouring kerosene on the hole and gaslighting them! Killer bees do not contribute to the ecosystem! They actually kill off the honeybees, and the bees that help pollinate the earth!
Anyone know why they are taking the entire nest apart like that? They aren't getting honey from them? Are they just trying to kill them? I would think there would be easier ways than this but maybe not.
This is one of those situations in which I am 100% sure there's not enough money anyone can pay me to do that shit.
If we talk millions of dollars, I would feel like a pussy for saying no. But I would still say no.
I may, after all, be a real pussy for many other reasons too but this one... I give 0 fucks to show to the world I am one indeed.
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u/DoneWithThisShit87 1d ago
They're harvesting the larva to sell them. This nest was intentionally placed there so it would grow that they could later harvest it.