#asian giant hornet

[indigobugs]

Bee -n really busy. I spend most of my art time nowadays working at the day job and when I'm off the clock I've kinda preferred to make wall hangings or paint miniatures. I also finally got married last weekend after a 1+ year engagement, so thats a lot off both me and my wife's minds.

[overmorrowpine]

due to a dream (good one :] ) where i held a northern giant hornet on my fingertip (she was very polite about it but refused to get off), i've had a tactile hallucination wasp on my fingertip which is sweet but annoying

so i made her as a ring

(photo under cut due to the fact she looks pretty realistic)

[image ID: two photos of a pale-skinned left hand, the second one much more zoomed in. the index finger has a brass wire ring at the base, which has a northern giant hornet figurine on the top of the ring. she is a large (two finger segment lengths) paper-made wasp, with an orange head, a dark brown middle, and an orange and black striped end. her legs and antennae are of dark brassy wire, which is the material the round part of the ring is made of too. she has no wings. end ID]

(don't mind the fact that the first image is a screenshot of a picture and you can still see the black bars, i don't have energy to fix it)

the wings can be tomorrow sundry's problem, i finished with this at like 11pm

my process: take printer paper and use scotch tape to rip the top half of the piece off (so that it has a soft, fuzzy texture). use some soft, bulky yarn as the center. hot glue the paper around it. do the same for the other parts, but with unaltered paper. glue them together. color them. glue her legs on. make the ring part. glue that on. there we go

(this isn't very detailed but i'm tired and you can have better instructions when i wake up again)

[mandsleanan]

People that swat cicada killers, and then crow that they killed Murder Hornets, are going to Wasp Hell specifically.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

June 28, 2022

The Canadian Council on Invasive Species (CCIS) gave a short presentation of the top 10 invasive species already in Canada or that could come to Canada from south of our border and that we therefore should be on the alert for. 

The top 10 invasive species were as follows:

Asian long-horned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis

Spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula

Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia

Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis

Hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys

Dutch elm disease, Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi

Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica

Spongy moth (also LDD moth; previously gypsy moth), Lymantria dispar dispar

Lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii

I have definitely seen at least three of these species and/or the damage they have done, specifically 4, 8, and 9. 

You can help by reporting these species through, for example, iNaturalist. CCIS has their own project on iNaturalist, titled “I Spy and Identify Invasives / Je vois, J’identifie les espèces envahissantes”, which you can join: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/i-spy-and-identify-invasives-je-vois-j-identifie-les-especes-envahissantes. The CCIS also has a whole webpage on how and where to report: https://canadainvasives.ca/take-action/report/.

[bearfoottruck]

It's been a while since I did a headcanon about Deku, so here's one: he's afraid of wasps. He's especially afraid of the Asian giant hornet.

[lilafeuer]

Vespa mandarinia aka the Asian giant hornet; and by its less affectionate Internet moniker “murder hornet”, is the world’s largest species of hornet! Native to temperate and tropical East Asia, South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and parts of the Russian Far East. First two photos courtesy of @aaiZveGu1X7nWwX (Twitter) who has a wide variety of photos and video clips of giant hornets he tends after. When isolated from a hive body and handled with care they aren’t the monster most make them out to be. All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets. In the U.S., we have no native hornets. Our main hornet is the European hornet which was introduced into New York in 1840. It looks like a large yellowjacket—about ¾ to 1½ inches long—and nests in the ground or in hollow trees.

[bathypelagiczone]

Asian Giant Hornet

A single hornet can kill as many as 40 honey bees per minute thanks to its large mandibles which can quickly strike and decapitate a bee.

[zoethehead]

another character haul, this one featurin' some more feesh based guys.

animals: Tiger Shark, Asian Giant Hornet, Electric Eeel, and Leech

and yes, the leech is a doctor, for obvious reasons.

[richdadpoor]

Yellow-Legged Hornet, Killer of Honeybees, Found in Georgia

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced earlier this week that a beekeeper in Savannah found an unusual insect later identified by University of Georgia officials as a yellow-legged hornet. What Did the Actors Bring to Their Back to the Future: The Musical Performances? Yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) are an invasive species that decimate honeybee colonies, which are…

[fiishwitch]

I can't exist in the same world as these murder hornets.

Either they go, or me.

[sad-littletalker]

Ok, have ya'll heard about Asian hornets? If not they are basically giant bees with photographic memory...

Image found on google btw

^^ LOOK AT THIS THING MANNN

Mother nature was just like: I hate everything. I'm gonna go make a killer bee.

[thelocalbard-blog]

Christmas Wasp Girl

The BEE-03W Wasp Girl from Snail Shell, checking out the lights, the tree, the presents, and the fireplace with her pet hornet.

[fleshdyke]

i don’t think i’ll ever understand people that hate wasps so so so much. like yeah they can sting you a bunch but unless you’re allergic or an entire swarm is coming after you like does it really matter?? a wasp sting is like nothing. it’s less painful than getting blood drawn. who cares

[sillyroundkatie]

Artfight 2023 attack #1 - Margot for @junebuggeryy !

Guy starting Artfight voice: I should draw 100 hornets

[sophieswundergarten]

Quick Summary of the Japanese honeybee Ball of Death!! As requested by my lovely (And still shadowbanned >:( ) friend @oflightningandstars

OKAY

So, does everyone remember the "Murder Hornets"? Those are actually classified as Asian giant hornets, and they are a regular predator in the Japanese honeybee's natural habitat.

However, the bees have a way to deal with it! One bee will leave the hive and lure the hornet inside, where it is subsequently jumped by every available colony member.

THE BEES THEN MAKE A BALL OF DEATH BY PILING ON TOP OF THE HORNET AND VIBRATING FAST ENOUGH TO RAISE THE TEMPERATURE TO 117° F/47° C UNTIL THEY COOK THE HORNET ALIVE

The bees only have a temperature tolerance a few degrees above the hornet, so some members of the colony will be sacrificed in this, but it is an extremely effective way to protect the hive.

Here are some resources:

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