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Japanese hornet?

Jesus fucking christ, what is that? Some sort of radioactive superbug?

Oosuzumebati 大雀蜂 (Big hornet)
biggest and strongest　hornet of the world

SPEED 40km/h
STAMINA they can fly 100km/day
BODY 20mm~38mm long

if there are 30 big hornet, they can kill 40,000 honeybees

i bet it can easily 1cc dodonpachi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54exo8JTUs

These fuckers are massive

insect fight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJv5b-YUXU

>>7766626
Man, I love those insect fight videos.

>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 from their vibrating wing forming a convection oven

What the fuck.

>>7766674
They also seem to excel in danmaku. Horrifying creatures.

>>7766674
I thought the bees wait inside the hive waiting for the hornet pillagers - to lure them inside

>>7766686
scout, not pillagers. Basically they lure the scout in and kill it before it can signal the others, the nest would never survive a full-on raid.

I hate how I see this thread right after reading things about Japanese hornets, its following me...i know it.

mother of god

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EZtXNIT5QQ

scout got owned

I've opened at least 10 videos about insects fighting each other with no prospect of stopping, I hope you're fucking happy.

animals violently killing each other is my fetish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmESEZjI8Gk

is there one good reason as to why these things should not be exterminated? like, do they contribute anything, or do they just kill shit?

i already live in Japan. fucking rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54exo8JTUs&feature=related

COOL

>>7766746
Same applies to NEETs

>>7766756
help me find a place then. I hate my country.

>>7766730
>I've opened at least 10 videos about insects fighting each other with no prospect of stopping, I hope you're fucking happy.
See if you can find that one about the ants that kidnap a male ant (several times their size) and keep it trapped in their nest, forcing it to mate with their queen.

Or the one about that parasite that makes rats forgo one of their survival instincts, making them easy pray for cats and allowing the parasite to complete its natural cycle.

Or the one about that bee that injects its eggs on a caterpillar, where they feast on the caterpillar's entrails until big enough then smash their way out, killing the poor thing.

I could go on, I'm really just getting started. Point is, nature is fucked up.

>>7766746
Actually not a single organism contributes.
e=cm^2

>>7766746
is there one good reason as to why you should not be exterminated? like, do you contribute anything to society?

>>7766775
>Or the one about that parasite that makes rats forgo one of their survival instincts, making them easy pray for cats and allowing the parasite to complete its natural cycle.
what's that little thing called?

>>7766775
>nature is fucked up.
nope. it's how we see the world that is fucked up. nature knows no disgust nor morals.

>>7766790
I believe it was Toxoplasma gondii.

Fun fact: it also infects humans, among the effects it has, it lowers out response time.

>>7766793
>nope. it's how we see the world that is fucked up. nature knows no disgust nor morals.
Of course, I meant in our eyes, nature is fucked up

>>7766674
Honeybees are quite used to this technique, actually - it's also used to heat the hive during colder winter days and the defense might have been derived from this behavior. They can also do the reverse, using their wings as fans to cool down the hive.

Though when it comes to wasps, I am particularly fond of Allochares azureus, a peculiar wasp that preys on spiders, as is usual fare for many wasps. What is unusual is that the wasp enters the spider's web (a dangerous affair even for spider-hunting wasps), finds the spider, paralyzes it and entangles it back in its own web - this prevents ants and the like from making a meal out of both the spider and the wasp's eggs and gives off the impression that the poor spider got caught in its own trap. The wasp is also unable to recognize spiders by sight (physical contact is necessary), generally hunts in dark crevices likely to host suitable spiders and seems quite reluctant to fly, so I like to imagine it as a near-blind shut-in onee-san with glasses, who'd be gentle and inactive until she finds a loli spider girl she likes, whereupon the poor monstergirl would awaken to find herself bound in her bed with her own web and the wasp girl on top of her, and the latter would reveal to her that she's a lesbian BDSM enthusiast.

>>7766641
Those fights are the main reason I'm terrified of Jerusalem crickets, I thought they were peaceful insects that occasionally took live prey until I saw one of them eat the chelicerae of a live solifugid in a cage match. I wish they had a millipede instead of centipede, though - while centipedes have their first pair of legs modified into venomous fangs, millipedes one-up them by having defensive glands that spray cyanide, eating at arthropod cuticles (and human skin - there's a case where a millipede attacked a 8 year old girl's genitalia; the girl was at first thought to be subjected to sexual abuse until the culprit was discovered.) with remarkable ease.

>is there one good reason as to why these things should not be exterminated? like, do they contribute anything, or do they just kill shit?
lol. bees are one of the most, if not the most, important animals on earth because they pollinate

>>7766793
Which could be used as a proof that there are no universal morals.

The master was right.

>>7766798
>Fun fact: it also infects humans, among the effects it has, it lowers out response time.
Just found it with 1 minute google.
And: A study of 191 young women in 1999 reported higher intelligence and lower guilt proneness in Toxoplasma-positive subjects.

>lower guilt.
It's not the women who are the problem nowadays.
It's the parasite that evolved into being a whore maker.
I'm a genius.

>>7766804
Hornets are not bees.

Oh wait, you're trolling aren't ye.

>>7766805
>so I like to imagine it as a near-blind shut-in onee-san with glasses, who'd be gentle and inactive until she finds a loli spider girl she likes, whereupon the poor monstergirl would awaken to find herself bound in her bed with her own web and the wasp girl on top of her, and the latter would reveal to her that she's a lesbian BDSM enthusiast.
Why are you trying to make me masturbate?

>>7766826
He's biology anon, that's his job

>>7766805
I was waiting for you since I saw the thread.
Keep up the good work.

>>7766805
I always enjoy your posts.

get out, hibachi

>huge asian predators
hawt