Asian Giant Hornet

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Not afraid of bees? You should! Check out this Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) commonly referred to as the Sparrow Bee, a monster with a standing record as the worlds largest Hornet! It can be as long as your pinkie and have a total wingspan (wing to wing) the length of your hand!
Not allergic to bee Stings? Doesn’t matter with this killer! If the hornet injects enough venom in you, you could die regardless. People stung by this giant say that it’s like having a nail driven into your skin, that’s because the venom causes the arachidonic acid to be released from the phospholipid membrane disproportionately ( or in simpler terms, it eats away at your flesh).
You’ll feel this 1/4 inch stinger which is the size of the tip of your pen (think of a staple, but half the size) and because it doesn’t have an ridges, the stinger can be stab you multiple times - talk about a bee sting!*@
The hunt starts with this killer hornet locating a hive of honey bees; the scout then sneaks in as close as possible to its prey and sprays the area with a pheromone which serve as a road map for reinforcements. A few Giant Hornets can slaughter a hive of 30,000 honey bees within three hours leaving only severed heads and limbs - talk about a disadvantage!
The honey bees have to act fast and being at such a disadvantage, their only hope is to trick the hornet into entering the hive. They accomplish this by moving away from the hive and letting the hornet believe that the honey is unprotected. If the giant hornet takes the bait and enters the hive, hundreds of honey bees hiding inside ambush the intruder covering it with their bodies and gyrating their flight muscles to generates incredible heat. The temperature rises to 115 to 117 degrees Fahrenheit which is just tolerable for a honey bee but kills the giant hornet (it can only handle 113 degrees). The threat is neutralized with the death of the intruder which is unable to bring reinforcements.
Think because you’re human and don’t have honey that this doesn’t concern you? Think again - these giants attack humans as well and more then 40 people die each year from the attack.
Once the hornet has you in it’s sights, there is no use running; it can fly up to speeds of 25 mph and travel up to 60 miles in a day, so it’s little work for the wasp to catch you and begin the onslaught of stinger stabs. I should note here that the wasp does not fly around looking for humans but rather was disturbed and believes it is under attack.
Some of the people that die each year are caught trying to steal the hornets larva. Humans stealing larva? Yep, believe it or not, Many Japanese consider the larva a delicacy and eat them deep fried or as a kind of hornet sushi. If this giant hornet believes it is in danger, it will use an alarm pheromone to alert others that their nest is under attack - when that happens, you better start saying your prayers because the whole nest will mobilize and attack you in their defense! If one can kill, imagine what would happen with a nest!


What to avoid being stung by the Giant Hornet (or any other hornet for that matter)? Then avoid the following:

• Disturbing a nest (including vibrations and loud noises)
• Being within a few meters of a nest
• Disturbing or killing a hornet within a few meters of a nest
• Blocking the path of a hornet
• Breathing on the nest or hornet
• Rapid air movements

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[Ted Bundy]

when i was 10, my cousin of the same age, and i threw rocks at a paperwasp nest. we were both stung over a hundred times. even inside our mouths. we both went into shock. huge shots of hydrocortizone. respiratory arrest. we almost died.

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Little Girl Kicking The Wasp's Nest

YouTube - extreme close wasp attack

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YouTube - hornets from hell

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Lastly,could you please help these people by giving them advice about their hornet problem?
<LI class=alt id=comment-27882>WILLIAM G. #1. July 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am

i have them all over the front of my house. I have found the hive in the ground by my front door. How can i kill them. we cant go out thefront door during the day. there mustbe 50 of them there at 9:00 this morning flying all around all the shrubs and bushes. i have kids and dont know how to kill them. i sprayed them with hornet spray and it didnt faze them.
<LI id=comment-28358>Ed M. #8. August 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

I here a lot of things, I have been stung while driving to work and i can tell you it was like a nail being driven in my shoulder. Identified as a Japanese hornet by matching the hornets from hell pictures and from people at work saying ” Yes that’s a Japanese hornet”. Why are they here in North Carolina? Why in front of my house. I saw one at walmart in an island between parking spaces under a maple tree that was 3″ long. I saw him sitting still at the opening of the hole in the ground he came out of.I have a photo of the one that stung me, and I captured him and gave him a bath in some brake cleaner at work, which killed him after i blasted him for 3 seconds.”Get you a can” cheap, evaporates fast, and comes with a long tube. I am trying to find out how to bait them, trap them and dispose of them myself. Any help? My three year old tries to get them despite me telling him to walk away don’t run . He says,”it’s ok! daddy i’m spiderman”
<LI id=comment-29159>Ted #16. November 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 am

I’ve seen these large hornets in central New Hampshire. Very similar to
the Japanese hornets from the NGC video “Hornets From Hell”. I caught 2 in my cellar (and still have the specimens.) I heard them before I saw them. They weren’t aggressive. I’ve seen another couple out doors always hearing them first. They’re definitely hornets and not the cicada killers. (I saw cicada killers when I was a child on Cape Cod in the 60’s. They built burrows in the sandy soil and had VERY thin waists.) The big hornets in NH had terra cotta colored eyes with brown & yellow stripes. I haven’t seen any since I saw these few in the late 1990’s. They must be relatively rare here as I’ve found only one other person who has seen them. Never saw a nest- nor do I need to.

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Originally Posted by Teddyray

when i was 10, my cousin of the same age, and i threw rocks at a paperwasp nest. we were both stung over a hundred times. even inside our mouths. we both went into shock. huge shots of hydrocortizone. respiratory arrest. we almost died.

Do you have these creatures in Texas? If they were to bite you is it a very painful bite?

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I'll tell you...I'm not going to have them living around me. I don't care for them.

YouTube - asian kid pokin wasp nest

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So I'm allergic to all types of stingy flying bugs...and the pic of the nest gave me chills....we have the wasps that make the mud nests here, and in fact our shed is full of them. I'm sure one of those LOOKING at me would be enough to kill me. Don't think they are in Missouri do ya?

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Originally Posted by DarknessGouki

So I'm allergic to all types of stingy flying bugs...and the pic of the nest gave me chills....we have the wasps that make the mud nests here, and in fact our shed is full of them. I'm sure one of those LOOKING at me would be enough to kill me. Don't think they are in Missouri do ya?

Well I'm sorry to tell you but yes they are. They advanced to France in 2007. Somehow they got to United States. There are warnings about them. Please Please listen to them. These are very deadly creatures. They can and will kill you. I don't mean a nest either.. I mean a single one of them. This article talked about their invasion of France:


Giant Hornets Invade France

The Telegraph reports that global warming has allowed a vicious giant asian hornet called Vespa velutina to spread rapidly in France. The hornets are a huge threat to honey bees.

Thousands of football-shaped hornet nests are now dotted all over the forests of Aquitaine, the south-western region of France hugely popular with British tourists.

"Their spread across French territory has been like lightning," said Jean Haxaire, the entomologist who originally identified the new arrival.

He said he had recently seen 85 nests in the 40-odd miles which separate the towns of Marmande and Podensac, in the Lot et Garonne department where the hornets were first spotted.

The hornets can grow to up to 1.8in and, with a wingspan of 3in, are renowned for inflicting a bite which has been compared to a hot nail entering the body.

The article says just a few of the hornets can "can destroy a nest of 30,000 bees in just a couple of hours." It also says that France now has to import honey. 25,000 tons of honey are now imported into France each year. Global warming is already making many changes to ecosystems and the economy in Europe. The hornets are expected to eventually make it to Britain.

Some Asian bees actually have a unique defense trick to protect themselves from the giant hornets called heatballing. They bees surround a hornet and raise the temperature of the hornet with their body heat and literally cook it to death. Unfortunately, the European bees do not share this defensive behavior with Asian bees.

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Question

I work outside staining dexks for a living. In that past year I have seen 3 bugs
that I have never seen before in my life, but there is only 1 bug that has ever
really scared me. I wrote someone about it last year with no response. I saw
one again today, and my mom asked if it was a hummingbird, just to give you
an idea of the size. If I'm not mistaken, witch I hope I am, the only thing I
could find online to describe it was the asian giant hornet. It was today, july
23rd, at about 3pm in st louis missouri. Please tell me I'm crazy

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Compare difference in size between a Giant Hornet and an ordinary Honeybee


I can tell you that they are in Saint Louis. Now,most likely there will also be colonies of them in and around Springfield. If you see them do NOT get them riled up. All it takes is one bite from one hornet to kill you. Run as fast as you can and do not breathe around them.