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>Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia japonica)

From:
Japan, obviously.

Why you must fear it:
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.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:14:27 2009 No.3641696
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More scary shit:
Here's how the Japanese hornet treats other insects (and would presumably treat us, if we were small enough). An adult hornet will fly miles to find some squishy shit to feed to its children. Often times, it finds its food in, say, a hive inhabited by thousands of bees.

What to do? Well, Vespa japonica sprays the nest with some of the acid/pheromone and brings in reinforcements, usually consisting of 30 or so fellow hornets. They then descend upon the beehive like an unholy plague of hell-born death engines and proceed to make this world a scary goddamned place. This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.

Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with all the bee's children. Who will then be eaten.

Nature is fucking hardcore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:15:27 2009 No.3641700 File: 38 KB, 300x346, gianthornet2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't want to go to Japan anymore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:15:27 2009 No.3641702 File: 305 KB, 711x400, 00001.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] In before that brain parasite guy shows up and I don't get to sleep tonight either.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:16:27 2009 No.3641703 Australian bugs eat these things for breakfast and birds for lunch. There's also a snail that has a poison that kills you in about a minute.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:18:27 2009 No.3641715 Cracked... Actually quite good. You wouldn't expect that from a site spending most of the time coming up with weird top X lists.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:18:27 2009 No.3641709 >>3641703 Australia was God's experiment in seeing exactly how a few fistfuls of hardcore killing machines would work together in one environment.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:19:27 2009 No.3641716 File: 31 KB, 400x309, botfly3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3641702 :3

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:20:27 2009 No.3641720 Japanese honeybees kill the hornets by swarming over them, and vibrating their bodies until they reach degrees of over 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:21:27 2009 No.3641721 >>3641703 >snail that kills you in a minute yeah you're going to have to back that up with something or i'm calling pure bullshit

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:28:27 2009 No.3641741 File: 148 KB, 650x520, spider-hell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:29:27 2009 No.3641743 /jp/ = Jap/an/

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:32:27 2009 No.3641752 >>3641721 He's probably talking about cone snails. They're aquatic though. Everything in the water is about five times as fucking hardcore as stuff on the land.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:33:27 2009 No.3641757 >>3641721 He's probably talking about cone shells. Marine gastropods that catch fish with venomous barbs fired out their mouths. Most species aren't dangerous, but a few are deadly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:33:27 2009 No.3641756 >>3641743 ^_^

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:34:27 2009 No.3641761 >>3641696 Except when they attack Japanese honey bee's which will mob the hornets in a giant dog pile raising the hornets body temp until it dies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:38:27 2009 No.3641775 File: 310 KB, 700x1025, 2021810.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The solution? RAID: Kills insects dead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:49:27 2009 No.3641817 >>3641752 Yeah, Sea Snakes are a few times more venemous than the most venemous land snake. Then there's the Stone fish.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:53:27 2009 No.3641828 so that's it? 40 ppl/yr? Cars kill more people, you should be afraid of cars

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:55:27 2009 No.3641832

As an Australian, I've gotta inform you that we don't bother with poison anymore. Our immune system has adapted, due to us breathing in Australian air (It's got more toxin then most snakes on earth combined) since we were born.

We've just gotta look out for drop bears. It's hard, because if you're looking upwards for them, some sort of crocodile will come out of the waist high rivers of acid we constantly live in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:56:27 2009 No.3641835 >>3641828 I'd rather be killed by a car than by a hornet that melts eyes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 03:56:27 2009 No.3641837 >>3641828 Cars don't kill people. People driving while on their cell phone kill people

>>	Vector !NEy29ODpvs Sat Oct 31 03:59:27 2009 No.3641847 >>3641837 Wombats kill cars.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:05:27 2009 No.3641867 >>3641847 Servants kill Wombats.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:06:27 2009 No.3641871 >>3641867 Shiki can kill servants.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:06:27 2009 No.3641874 >>3641871 Cars can kill Shiki.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:10:27 2009 No.3641889 >>3641871 Wombats kill Shiki.

>>	Hatsune Miku !MIKUiqnw0. Sat Oct 31 04:10:27 2009 No.3641890 File: 79 KB, 366x243, mikutear3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3641741 Fuck you, I hate you. Now I'm jumping at even the slightest tingle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:15:27 2009 No.3641903 Yuyuko can kill nameless fairies. Discuss.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:20:27 2009 No.3641925 >>3641903 Fairies are immortal, silly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:32:27 2009 No.3641957 >>3641847 >>3641867 >>3641871 >>3641874 >>3641889 It's the circle of life, Anonymous

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:47:27 2009 No.3641988 >>3641957 the CIRRRRRRRRCCLEEEEEE OFFF LIFEEEEEEEEEEE CIRRCLEE OOOOOOOFFFF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee badum

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:49:27 2009 No.3641994 File: 239 KB, 1136x852, Honeybee_thermal_defence01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:50:27 2009 No.3641997 >>3641696 fraid not. those bees pile onto the hornet(s), vibrate like crazy to raise the temperature, and essentially heat the hornets to death. the bees then go on with their business. look it up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:51:27 2009 No.3641998 >>3641994 >>3641997 death by bee orgy hivemind, pun somewhat intended.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 04:53:27 2009 No.3642002

I've always been deathly afraid of bees.
I've even had nightmares as a kid of being stung by gigantic hornets.
I don't mean godzilla size, but say, the size of your fist.
That's still pretty fucking big.

Everytime one of the fuckers starts buzzing around me, and they always do for whatever reason, I always have to hear some dumbass preach about how if I don't bother them they wont bother me.
Well it's crawling around under my nostril, it's fucking bothering me.

The only thing that keeps me from swatting the fuckers is the knowledge that if the hive is nearby that I'm going to have ten thousand more of the fuckers on me looking for blood.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:00:27 2009 No.3642022 >>3642002 Smoke, makes bees really drowsy and tame. ciggs, pipes, etc

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:07:27 2009 No.3642041 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-AfTWA6JsM don't worry /jp/, we'll be safe from the giant hornets as long as true heroes like this still exist in this world

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:13:27 2009 No.3642056 Oh fuck, repressed memories about bees. When I was younger my family and I went camping and I left a can of coke out for a second so I could take a piss. GUESS WHAT I FOUND IN MY FUCKING MOUTH AFTER I TOOK A SIP OF THAT COKE?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:16:27 2009 No.3642066 File: 177 KB, 800x596, 1217454312421.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3642041 >One of his favorite parts of the job is being able to feast on hornet larvae.

>>	Aoko Aozaki !WU0xSUGOI6 Sat Oct 31 05:24:27 2009 No.3642079 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtFVQe4JRmA >>3641890 Dude you're Australian

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:25:27 2009 No.3642081

>>3641696
>This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.

Actually this is only true of bees outside Japan. European bees are dumb as fuck, but Japanese bees have worked out that they can handle body temperatures higher than that of the hornet, so they just crowd around the hornets and buzz with all their might, raising their body temperature, killing the hornet.

So if you want to be safe in japan, learn to buzz like a bee, teach that to 3,000 of your closest friends and you'll be fine.

>>	CINERIA !DoLLFaGERs Sat Oct 31 05:25:27 2009 No.3642080 >>3642079 Doesn't make it any less creepy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:28:27 2009 No.3642085 >>3641828 More people probably die from slipping on banana peels, let alone the thousands killed by cars, the same by seasonal flu, and so on.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:30:27 2009 No.3642090

>>3641700
>I don't want to go to Asia anymore.

Fix'd. Vespa mandarinia may be the most common in Japan, but it's native to a lot of other Asian countries as well, at the very least the more Eastern ones, but also India. Surprisingly, I don't think they're seen much in places like the Phillipines or Malaysia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:31:27 2009 No.3642092 >>3642066 What? It's like drinking the deer's blood after you've brought it down. It's pretty macho to slaughter them and then eat their young.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:54:27 2009 No.3642129 >>3642085 Slipping on banana peels doesn't involve flying demons.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 05:59:27 2009 No.3642150

>>3642129
Exactly. Just like how more people are killed by elephants per year than sharks and lions combined, we still fear the sharks and lions more because of HOW they kill. An elephant just stomps you to death, usually out of fear. Sharks and lions kill you and eat you, causing humanity to demonize them; these hornets demonize themselves through the sheer ferocity of the attack.

It's not about how many people you kill, it's about how you kill people. A guy who walks into a crowded mall with an AK-47 and kill fifty people will be forgotten long before the guy who lures ten people into his home one by one and murders and eats them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 06:25:27 2009 No.3642198 Japanese Giant Hornet can kill Black Widow. Discuss.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 06:27:27 2009 No.3642200 >>3642092 What the fuck is macho about drinking a deer's blood? Now a bear or mountain lion that you killed with your knife, that's a different matter.

>>	Erixe Sat Oct 31 06:40:27 2009 No.3642244 File: 33 KB, 640x480, 1238472953198.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >This thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 06:50:27 2009 No.3642272 Whats with those threads today? Are we being invaded by /an/ or what?

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 06:53:27 2009 No.3642281

>>3642198
A lot of things can kill a Black Widow. They just usually don't bother, because there's no point; fuckin' things are poisonous like you wouldn't believe. I killed one once without messing it up too badly; dropped the thing right next to an ant-hill, and they wouldn't touch it. It was still there a week later, and one of the ant trails made a neat semi-circle around it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 06:59:27 2009 No.3642296 >>3642281 Ants are pussy animals. Except army ants and bullet ants.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:01:27 2009 No.3642302 >>3642296 If anyone made ammo out of bullet ant stingers the bullets would be two times as powerful!

Derek Sat Oct 31 07:18:27 2009 No.3642343

>>3642150
"we still fear the sharks and lions more because of HOW they kill"

That's a goddamn rationalization, you fear the sharks and lions because they /seem/ more deadly. Being stomped to death by an elephant would be excruciating, likewise one of the most common causes of death, car accidents. Impaled by shrapnel and bleeding out is no picnic, yet few people fear riding or driving in cars. More people fear flying in planes even though it's far less deadly, and sudden deceleration is a quick death.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:19:27 2009 No.3642347 >>3642302 And bullets made from red ants are three times faster?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:20:27 2009 No.3642349 >>3642343 oops, back to Anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:25:27 2009 No.3642361 >>3642302 Thank you Derek. I'll take your word for it. More importantly, are those Japanese Asian Hornets genuine, and safe to download? What do you reckon, do they contain any viruses?

>>	Derek Sat Oct 31 07:29:27 2009 No.3642377 >>3642361 100% safe. High quality thanks OP.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:42:27 2009 No.3642415
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>In before that brain parasite guy shows up and I don't get to sleep tonight either.

My apologies, I was sleeping. Will this be sufficient? This is a tapeworm of canids that uses pretty much every non-canid mammal as its intermediate host, obviously including humans. It can grow anywhere in the body, and unless it gets a specific chemical signal from the dog's metabolism, it turns into tapeworm cancer and forms gigantic cysts that can reach say, 50cm diameter, large as a soccer ball. If any of those cysts explode, the host certainly dies.

It is gained by interacting with dogs, foxes (watch out, Yuichi! ), wolves and such.

Hydatid cysts, those are called, and they're the work of genus Echinococcus. E. granulosus makes a single gigantic cyst, E. multilocularis spreads them all over the place.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:54:27 2009 No.3642441 This thread is fucking hardcore.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:54:27 2009 No.3642440
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Schistosoma haematobium is the cause of urinary schistosomiasis, which manifests itself most clearly with blood in urine, as the eggs of the critter poke little pinholes in and out of the bladder. Eventually it calcifies the bladder and may cause inflammation of the genitals.

Oh and it causes bladder cancer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 07:54:27 2009 No.3642439 >>3642415 moar!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:00:27 2009 No.3642449 >>3642440 Post images of infected humans.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:00:27 2009 No.3642450
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Acanthocephalans usually don't infect humans, with very few recorded cases. However, they are notable in that they are not fond of this "drain nutrients like a wuss" thing most intestinal parasites have going on, neither do their pathology involve releasing some potent venom. Simply said, the so-called spiny-headed worms literally tear apart the host's guts with their thorny proboscis. Not content with living in the intestine, some even rip their way into the abdomen.

Not exactly what you'd want in your guts, because the most common one in humans, Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus, measures over half a meter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:02:27 2009 No.3642457 >>3642415 Looks like the eye dude from Resident Evil 2.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:03:27 2009 No.3642459 File: 56 KB, 188x271, Schistopath100.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3642449 Those don't really give good images, the best you'll get is an x-ray that shows the calcification. But other types of schistosomiasis are pretty horrific.

>>	Aoko Aozaki !WU0xSUGOI6 Sat Oct 31 08:03:27 2009 No.3642460 >>3642415 Don't most people immunise their dogs against that sort of parasite?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:06:27 2009 No.3642472 File: 44 KB, 800x600, hc4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3642460 Yeah, fortunately they're quite vulnerable to antihelminth drugs. Here's another hydatid cyst.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:09:27 2009 No.3642479 File: 6 KB, 130x135, what-the-fuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3642415 So this will grow even bigger and make her eyeball explode?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:11:27 2009 No.3642483 >>3642472 How is it possible for the worm to go in there?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:11:27 2009 No.3642485 >>3642415 I have something to ask you. I heard of a myth that if you eat too much raw fish/sushi you could get infected with some sort of worms or parasite living in your brain. Is this true?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:15:27 2009 No.3642500 >>3642485 Isn't that the parasite Ryukishi based Hinamizawa syndrome on?

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:18:27 2009 No.3642512

>>3642485
Raw fish is a really good way of getting yourself some tapeworms. Anisakis is especially a big offender, because it actually migrates deeper into the fish when it is frozen for preservation, so when the fish is gutted the worm is safe and sound. But it doesn't go to brain, you just cough/vomit it up. Disgusting, but hardly life threatening.

You may be talking about Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which I think can use fish as paratenic hosts and indeed does locate itself in the central nervous system, or sometimes the eyes, and it is quite deadly.

The other potentially brain-infecting parasites I know (Echinococcus, pig tapeworm) do not use fish as intermediate hosts. The kidney worm does though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:20:27 2009 No.3642523 >>3642512 fresh water fish only right? I love raw salmon and so does japan, them seem fine

>>	Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 Sat Oct 31 08:24:27 2009 No.3642545 >>3642523 >raw salmon oh god so tasty It melts in your mouth like dur butter.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:26:27 2009 No.3642553

>>3642483
Blood. Many worms use blood to circulate around the body, some localize on a specific place, others can grow wherever they please. The blood brain barrier isn't very effective when the worm can invade surrounding tissue, I think, but I'm no expert on helminths so I may be wrong.

>>3642500
I've been told the parasite cannot be a helminth lest it'd show up in the detailed analysis done on the patients.

>>3642523
Sea fish, actually (and indeed it is more common in Japan! ) but honestly it's a low chance. I suppose you're more likely to get hit by a car.

Modern preservation techniques may also kill the worms better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:26:27 2009 No.3642554 >>3642081 >So if you want to be safe in japan, learn to buzz like a bee, teach that to 3,000 of your closest friends and you'll be fine. Wo-ho-ho-ho. You think /jp/ has friends? 3,000 of them?

>>	Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 Sat Oct 31 08:29:27 2009 No.3642562 >>3642554 I thought we agreed in the last thread that /jp/ has got friends?

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:49:27 2009 No.3642635

>>3641817
I was in a Aquarium when one of the divers got stingued by a stone fish in a hand.

He was took to the hospital in helicopter, it was hardcore shit seeing panic his companions for something like this (later we were told that the stone fish was the most poisonous animal in the world, and that diver was actually lucky of being stinged in a hand. In any other place he would have died)

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Anonymous Sat Oct 31 08:57:27 2009 No.3642664
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>>3642635
Neither stonefish nor sea snakes are aggressive though. Stonefish just chill out at the bottom (where nothing can see them so you're more likely to just step on them) while sea snakes are rather curious and will try to do creepy shit like trying to get inside your clothes for laughs and kicks.

Humboldt squids are worse. No venom, but a school of over a thousand two meter-long squids with hooked tentacles, a sharp beak, a tendency to swarm and xenophobia that would make Japan look warm and welcoming.

Honestly I'd rather take on a shark.

Picture related, Japanese squid conquering the skies.

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