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Anonymous
Alright, what the hell is this, it looks like an impossibly large bee that I wouldn't feel comfortable killing with insect spray unless I turned said insect spray into a flamethrower.

Also in before "FOR THE SWARM"
>> Nyarly
Terrifying stuff. 30 of those fuckers can destroy a hive of 30,000 European Honey Bees in the space of three hours. Just snip snip snip.

Oh and they spray fucking flesh eroding acid. Why the fuck does that guy have one on his hand? Fucker better be dead.
>> Anonymous
Biggest insect in the world?

PS even if it isn't I don't care, I'm never looking at this thread again.
>> Anonymous
is it a mean bee?
>> Anonymous
>>210172
"The venom contains at least eight distinct chemicals, some of which damage tissue, some of which cause pain, and at least one which has an odor that attracts more hornets to the victim."

yes
>> Anonymous
OMG Watch it kill other insects!

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/
>> Anonymous
>>210157
It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that'll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?

Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It'd be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like "Don't worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live," but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.

Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.

(http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html)
>> Anonymous
I saw that shit on National Geographic. It's a Japanese Giant Hornet or something
>> Anonymous
>>210177

sometimes known as the "asian giant hornet"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
>> Anonymous
OP pic, the guy with the hornet on his hand has balls of fucking steel.
>> Anonymous
>>210204
I think it's dead...
stuffed..
>> kamperkiller
It has a 3 inch wing span!
>> Anonymous
>>210228

You wish. That thing is actively preening it's antennae.
>> Anonymous
>>210233
oops.. you're rite..
Didn't see that before..
>> Anonymous
Non-native bees are fucked, but Japanese bees have a defense. When a bee hive detects one or two scouts, they will Zerg rush them. Yes you read correctly, Zerg rush. They mob it and beat their wings, which raises the temperature. The hornet's heat tolerance is slightly less than the bees', and it dies.

Fucking hardcore
>> Anonymous
>>210378

Also, professional beekepers make special hive casings with openings narrow enough for a honeybee to barely squeeze through, so that the damage caused is minimal.
>> Anonymous
That picture makes me want to cry.
>> Arutima
another reason why we need to nuke japan, again
>> Bizzaro Dan Rather
>>210892

Nuking Japan can make them bigger.
Just be glad that the House-Size Cockroaches and dog-size flying Scorpions have been extinct for hundreds of millions of years.
>> Anonymous
>>210892
For all we know it was nuking Japan in the first place that caused these oversized abominations, and you want to do it AGAIN!?
>> Anonymous
>>210915
Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen.
>> Anonymous
>>211068

Godzilla.
>> Anonymous
>>211071
Was it not previously established that we had nukes.
>> Anonymous
>>211074

Gamara, then.
>> Anonymous
>>210204
Or the hornet is just not threatened to sting the guy? Geez, just because its a huge ass hornet doesn't mean its pissed all the time.
>> Anonymous
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps, reaching up to 45 millimetres (1.8 inches) in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist)Hornets are known to be pissed 100% of the time, and are made of cheese and pure death.
>> Sorano
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I hail from /co/! This is how we deal with bees.
>> Anonymous
>>210176
>http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

HOLY FUCKING SHIT at the bot fly part.
>> Anonymous
>>211301

Makes you want to join the peace corps
>> Anonymous
>>210167

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g2ZXTUcFYjI
I know your sauces...

Very nice vid, found it a while back...
they are beasts
>> Anonymous
Holy fucking fuck, remind me never to come within 5000 miles of japan, ever

/allergic to bug bites, stings and other shit