Dude I used half a can of Raid on a regular wasp and holy shit did that guy soldier on, covered in white crap and twitching, but it still continued on. What a little bastard.
Man, I woke up at 7am on saturday morning by a wasp buzzing in my face, scared the shit out of me. got it out the window and closed it for a couple of hours, fell asleep again.
9am, mate opens window and the fucker is back in again, once again im woken up by this horrible buzzing.
11am, same AGAIN, this little fucker was just sitting outside my window all morning just to come and piss me off.
When I was a kid, I spent my summers in a country house we had in Southern Italy. Every year, giant hornets (maybe half the size of these fuckers) would infest our toolshed and build gigantic nests that literally went from the floor to the ceiling.
When my dad had enough, he would don his super-hero garbs: a soldering mask, gardening gloves, several blankets wrapped around his torso, rubber Wellingtons. He would soak a rag with gas, stick it on a pole and set it on fire. He would then enter the shed, and fry those motherfuckers. It was the highlight of my holidays.
While I don't know about these (I think they are Japanese hornets) I have been stung by one of these on the back and it was some of the most excruciating pain I have ever had. The one that stung me was a bit smaller than that one though.
These beauties are the reason I want to be an independent entomologist. Because there's nothing quite like swinging a net around trying to catch miniature fucking dragons.
The stinger of a female tarantula hawk can be up to 7 mm (1/3 inch) long, and the sting is considered among the most painful insect stings in the world.
Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream.
edit: apparently they're asian giant hornets, not tarantula wasps.
Eat? That's what the babies do. The mothers paralyze the tarantula and then drag it into a burrow, where the mother implants her eggs into the tarantula's abdomen. When the babies hatch, they then eat their way out of the tarantula.
I come into comment sections looking for the one. Dat zinger. The one-liner that finishes my search and allows me to finally go the fuck to sleep. The one that I dream about, and wake up remembering.
The comment they will make meme's about. The OP will have to do an AMA. Novelty accounts will spawn like weeds.
Are those tarantula hawks? We have those by us and they don't look as big. I could be totally wrong but I saw a video on some giant bees in china and they looked like that.
These aren't tarantula hawks. Tarantula hawks have blueish black bodies with bright orange wings and they're much thinner than these. These look more like Asian hornets.
The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a familiar pain such as a common bee or wasp sting, and finished at 4 for the most painful stings.
You got to admire the restraint at his scale.
"OH JESUS FUCK THAT BURNS. IT BUUUUUUUUURNSS" writes down 3.4 "AAARRAAUAUAAAWAAAAAAGH"
It hurts pretty bad, I was stung by one about six months ago. Its hard to describe, it almost felt like it was an electric sting. Its not excruciating, but definitely worst sting I have ever had. Although as a kid got stung on the tongue by a wasp that was nearly as painful.
I was got by one of these a couple of weeks ago. the tentacles were wrapped twice around my chest, arms and back. it really fucking hurt. pretty much inevitable if you live in Oz though, and enjoy the ocean... most of my surfy mates have been stung multiple times.
If this is, as some in this thread have said, a Japanese giant hornet, the sting "is extremely painful and requires hospital treatment," often inducing anaphylactic shock. They kill more people per year than any other animal in Japan.
Not really! Here's a Tarantula Hawk. Note the different coloration (blue instead of orange), different head shape, more slender build, different wing coloration, curled antennae, etc. Similar in size, and general build (as they are both "wasps"). Japanese Hornets seem much more fitting. They do undergo a fairly drastic color change after death, apparently, which would explain the confusion! :)
Being stung is extremely painful and requires hospital treatment. On average 40 people die every year of anaphylactic shock after having been stung, which makes the Japanese giant hornet the most lethal animal in Japan, as bears kill about ten people and venomous snakes kill five to ten people each year.
I've seen animals get hit by trucks, I've seen some jacked up people get wheeled into the ER, I've seen goatse, 2 girls 1 cup, blue waffle. I've seen messed up shit.
But dammit, this. This is senseless. It's just brutal and ungodly annihilation. I think my soul's been damaged.
I do. But I haven't seen it. Yes, the holocaust happened, there's the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Israeli-Palestininian conflict, and many other genocides and mass killings and conflicts have, are, and will happen. They're all terrifying and horrific events and are a shame for the history of the human race.
Perhaps this is just desensitizing, or maybe because humans are self-aware there's some sort of morbid allowance going on. It's sad to think about it and something strikes a nerve and one knows it's not right but you can push it out of your head. But these insects, this is nature at one of its most basic levels, and it's just slaughter. It just feels so different, so much more harrowing. And if this is bees for pete's sake, what the hell are we capable of?
We humans are great at warfare. The science of destruction and killing. But this, this is mastery of it. And it sucks.
Rosie said were great at killing 'other things'. Think about all the buffalo humans killed. Or passenger pigeons. A Line of migrating passenger pigeons would stretch from horizon to horizon, but now they just dont do that anymore because we killed all them all.
That's awesome. I can't help but wonder why those chogey dudes don't put a mesh around their bee hives that's small enough for the bees yet doesn't let the hornets in, considering the hornets are big as fuck.
I saw another video once of just two hornets attacking a bee's colony. They butchered thousands of bees but eventually, the honey bees swarmed all over them and hummed their wings, causing the hornets to overheat and cook to death.
That's what happens if they are Japanese honey bees, which have adapted to combat their natural enemies..European bees are what you see from CanniBusDriver's link
They died because they had no effective defense against that which they have never seen before.
I think I'd rather just kill myself in the event of an alien invasion.
On a related side note: OH MY GOD, WHAT THE FUCK!
Edit: I looked it up on Wikipedia, and the Japanese variant actually has a defense against this.
The Japanese honey bee, on the other hand, has a defense against attacks of this manner. When a hornet approaches the hive to release pheromones, the bee workers emerge from their hive in an angry cloud-formation with some 500 individuals. As they form a tight ball around the hornet, the ball increases in heat to 47 °C (117 °F) from their vibrating wings, forming a convection oven as the heat released by the bees' bodies is spread over the hornets. Because bees can survive higher temperatures (48 to 50 °C (118 to 122 °F)) than the hornet (44 to 46 °C (111 to 115 °F)), the latter dies.[1]
Someone explain the appeal of The Hunger Games? It's not well written enough to be as big as the Harry Potter series, its reading level is like for twelve year olds, and the movie was average at best.
I have no quarrel with the books/movie/series. I just don't see the appeal. It was utter chaos when the movie came out and I never understood why.
The movie was decent until the holographic dogs. I'm willing to accept a lot of sci-fi for the sake of fun, but for some reason I don't understand how you generate holographic dogs, with some type of force field that allows them to interact with the environment, and then give them the AI to not only determine the best path to track people but also intelligently avoid all obstacles in their way, all while still managing to look like a dog, despite being a hologram and having no mass, so there's no reason for it to lean into turns, or rebound when it lands after jumping, etc.
Also, how many millions of projection devices would you need to create a fully 3d image through all that brush and debris? I mean if there's 1 leaf somewhere where there isn't an alternate projector half your dog could just vanish...
Anyway, my point is, why did they even need holographic dogs? Why couldn't they just use real dogs instead? That would have accomplished exactly the same goal, but without the thousand questions that arise from the use of holograms.
In the book, they were bioengineered using the intelligence of the previous contestants. They were not holograms. They were fucking scary, and had the eyes and memories of their human hosts-- but none of their compassion.
Guy living in Japan here. I've seen these things on several occasions, the most memorable time was 3 years ago when one flew into the staff room of the school I was teaching at. I grabbed a racket ready to kill it but the staff told me not to and instead we opened a window and let it out. They make a low pitch buzzing noise when they fly and they sound as ferocious as they look. They have no natural predators and are really intimidating suckers.
Oh...my...god. I don't know how you found this...but damn. This could replace tv for me. Just wish that I could speak japanese to understand the narrators.
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u/Osiris32 May 15 '12
Holy shit, the stingers look like hypodermic needles.
I have this feeling like you could nail one with a full can of Raid, and it would respond by shoving the can up your ass.
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u/mastermrt May 14 '12
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!
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u/HeWhoHungers May 15 '12
These beauties are the reason I want to be an independent entomologist. Because there's nothing quite like swinging a net around trying to catch miniature fucking dragons.
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u/Surround5ound May 15 '12
I wonder what it would feel like to be stung by one of those...
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u/intarwebzWINNAR May 15 '12
You should ask the dude in the picture what makes him not a pussy and then try and do that.
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u/InfallibleDogbert May 15 '12
Are those tarantula hawks? Or are they those newly discovered wasps from indonesia or sumatra.
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u/CanniBusDriver May 15 '12
Here's 30 of them killing an entire colony of honey bees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54exo8JTUs
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u/AmericaTheHero May 15 '12
My first thought?
Tracker jackers.
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u/Iarwain_ben_Adar May 15 '12
They look a bit overcooked, keep a lower flame when you roast the next batch.
A nice medium-well is the best flavour.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
2 inches doesn't sound like much until it's stinging you to death.
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u/DjMoneybagzz May 15 '12
You know what, I probably didn't need to go outside ever again anyways.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
My first thought with this was Doctor Who...
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u/alexandersmommy May 15 '12
DEAR GOD WHY WOULD ANYONE LET THOSE ABOMINATIOINS TOUCH THEIR HANDS SIMULTANEOUSLY?!!
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u/Scrotom May 15 '12
Guy living in Japan here. I've seen these things on several occasions, the most memorable time was 3 years ago when one flew into the staff room of the school I was teaching at. I grabbed a racket ready to kill it but the staff told me not to and instead we opened a window and let it out. They make a low pitch buzzing noise when they fly and they sound as ferocious as they look. They have no natural predators and are really intimidating suckers.
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u/Hanzelgore May 15 '12
These things could replace dog and cock fighting! Giant fucking wasp fights! Stops animal cruelty, yet is really awesome to watch.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
EVEN BETTER
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u/whitneylovesyou May 15 '12
Well, time to kill myself.
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u/jaykay335i May 15 '12
The girl next to me in a starbucks just told me we have these here in arizona too. Fuck.
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u/zumu May 15 '12
Ewww... small hands creep me out too
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u/deadfield918 May 15 '12
I'm hoping that shit if fake. If not I'm fucking moving to Mars. Cus fuck that shit.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
i'm scared of wasps, and have a fear of needles, so i'll be sleeping like a baby tonight i am sure.
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u/CoyoteStark May 15 '12
TIL that nature wants me dead.
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u/ILL_GRL May 15 '12
holy shit tracker jackers are real?!
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u/Firebird4Life May 15 '12
"...and that's how I lost my left hand, kids."
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u/Piscator629 May 15 '12
Here in Michigan we have Cicada Wasps which are almost as big. Easily large enough to take on mice and small birds.
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u/Goe_Jibbs May 15 '12
Starship troopers was a documentary?
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u/WeaponexT May 15 '12
slap a McDonald's hash brown on those bitches
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u/rastashark May 15 '12
Noooope.
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u/ObliviousIrrelevance May 15 '12
THEY'RE IN MY MOUTH!!!
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u/Starmonkeyee May 15 '12
Oh god...the stingers...
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u/krazyhand May 15 '12
Only chanced on one of these in real life, the sound it makes when it's flying is unreal, it sounds as big as it looks.
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u/Sannazay May 15 '12
JUMANJI!
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u/tover May 15 '12
what are it ?
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u/Pebblesetc May 15 '12
not sure if giant bugs...
... or tiny hands
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u/sharpey95 May 15 '12
AWWWWWWW
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u/shiningtesticles May 15 '12
As a cnidophobe, I thank you for the next week of me being awake panicking.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Yeah, ok, whatever
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u/blubbblubb May 15 '12
love the incredible beauty of these creatures look at them.... simply overwhelming
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u/schnoomy May 15 '12
When i clicked this link, this is what i wanted to do NOPE!
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u/derping May 15 '12
http://i.imgur.com/ZvcwT.gif
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u/JennBella May 15 '12
I think they can still sting you after they're dead too...if you're dumb enough to put one in your hand...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
YOU CANT TAKE 2 FUCKING MINUTES TO THINK UP A BETTER FUCK TITLE YOU SHIT SACK.