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Giant Japanese hornet

asian hornet

This thing doesn’t look so bad does it?

Additional this gigantic, voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger (6.35mm)! People are usually not the Japanese giant hornet’s prey, but those who have felt its sting describe the pain as excruciating and very painful. Masato Ono, an entomologist at Tamagawa University, near Tokyo, said it’s “like a hot nail through my leg.”

Read more about the Japanese hornet on Wikipedia or view more images of flying snake.


  • Patrick

    That sucker is huge!!!

  • http://www.nolo.5thirtyone.com Dylan

    “is effectively baked to death by the large mass of vibrating bees.”

    Does anyone else find this funny?

  • http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog Ryan

    The more those little honey bee bastards kill the better! Honestly, I’ve few phobias but bees would be at the top of the list – and it settles me little that I live in North Eastern China… and it’s summer… and my screens have holes… ok, I’m just freaked right out!

    Derek, you have me questioning what I thought was a great day – finding this site… ;-)

  • hoodoo

    I swell up and need immediate treatment when I get stung by a bee as it is, so I supposed a pre-arranged funeral plan will be added to my list of things to do.

  • DuDe

    cool, i want one. they usually dont sting, though. they bite. and it is awesome.

  • jack

    i hit one of those suckers the other day with my car. in went right thought the wind sheild. so i smashed i with my cell phone tell is was dead.

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