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Asian Giant Hornets in America

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hariseldon

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JORMBO said:
Nightmare fuel


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Why the absolute fuck did I open this fucking thread?
 
mcz117chief

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Some pro tips. I lived a good part of my life in the countryside and have never heard about anyone getting stung by a hornet. Wasps, bees, horse-flies (these are the worst fuckers) yes, many times (well bees not really, they are very docile), but never a hornet. I met hornets hundreds of times, saw their nests, even had one in the attic and after a while they just left, they never bothered us and we didn't even see them that much since they can fly many kilometres away from their nests to hunt. And from what I read and heard about the Asian Giant Hornets they don't attack people either, you will only get attacked if you harm it or attack its nest, so just chill everyone and don't aggravate them. If they land on top of you, just say "hi" and it will leave 99.999999999% of the time without anything happening.
 
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highrider

highrider

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mcz117chief said:
Some pro tips. I lived a good part of my life in the countryside and have never heard about anyone getting stung by a hornet. Wasps, bees, horse-flies (these are the worst fuckers) yes, many times (well bees not really, they are very docile), but never a hornet. I met hornets hundreds of times, saw their nests, even had one in the attic and after a while they just left, they never bothered us and we didn't even seen them that much since they can fly many kilometres away from their nests to hunt. And from what I read and heard about the Asian Giant Hornets they don't attack people either, you will only get attacked if you harm it or attack its nest, so just chill everyone and don't aggravate them. If they land on top of you, just say "hi" and it will leave 99.999999999% of the time without anything happening.
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Conversely I also grew up in a semi-rural environment and a good family friend’s daughter was almost killed when she stepped on a nest hole on the ground, stung so many times she went in to cardiac arrest. Her brother was a lifeguard and administered CPR, saved her life. It was a matter of seconds she was stung dozens of times and on the ground literally turning blue. They aren’t aggressive in terms of random attacks though, you’re right. You have to threaten the nest, which you often won’t know is there until it’s too late.

To me this is like the Sydney Funnel Web. Sure it’s not roving around looking to bite you, but it’s like a poison land mine lol
 
Mr Sky

Mr Sky

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Old Retro said:
I was on the fence about getting into drones. Now I think I'll build a hornet/wasp air to air combat defense drone! Here's a guy that's had enough of hornets bullshit:

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There's something almost aesthetically pleasing about removing nests like this
 
mcz117chief

mcz117chief

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highrider said:
Conversely I also grew up in a semi-rural environment and a good family friend’s daughter was almost killed when she stepped on a nest hole on the ground, stung so many times she went in to cardiac arrest. Her brother was a lifeguard and administered CPR, saved her life. It was a matter of seconds she was stung dozens of times and on the ground literally turning blue. They aren’t aggressive in terms of random attacks though, you’re right. You have to threaten the nest, which you often won’t know is there until it’s too late.

To me this is like the Sydney Funnel Web. Sure it’s not roving around looking to bite you, but it’s like a poison land mine lol
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Yeah, I asked my mom who lived there almost her whole life and she knows of one person who had a similar encounter to the one you described. They had to call an ambulance to save the person.
 
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darkinstinct

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Looks like something out of Fallout. Guess those nukes over Japan have some late repercussions. Mutant hornets created by US atomic bombs?
 
StormCell

StormCell

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mcz117chief said:
Some pro tips. I lived a good part of my life in the countryside and have never heard about anyone getting stung by a hornet. Wasps, bees, horse-flies (these are the worst fuckers) yes, many times (well bees not really, they are very docile), but never a hornet. I met hornets hundreds of times, saw their nests, even had one in the attic and after a while they just left, they never bothered us and we didn't even see them that much since they can fly many kilometres away from their nests to hunt. And from what I read and heard about the Asian Giant Hornets they don't attack people either, you will only get attacked if you harm it or attack its nest, so just chill everyone and don't aggravate them. If they land on top of you, just say "hi" and it will leave 99.999999999% of the time without anything happening.
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Lemme share my story with you then.

highrider said:
Conversely I also grew up in a semi-rural environment and a good family friend’s daughter was almost killed when she stepped on a nest hole on the ground, stung so many times she went in to cardiac arrest. Her brother was a lifeguard and administered CPR, saved her life. It was a matter of seconds she was stung dozens of times and on the ground literally turning blue. They aren’t aggressive in terms of random attacks though, you’re right. You have to threaten the nest, which you often won’t know is there until it’s too late.

To me this is like the Sydney Funnel Web. Sure it’s not roving around looking to bite you, but it’s like a poison land mine lol
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You know, I could'a sworn I've already met these f'n murder hornets growing up in East TN but I guess not.

Gather round, GAF. It's story time.

I grew up in East TN living out in the sticks. We had 20 acres of mostly untamed forested land. Creeks. Ridge tops. Swamps. You name it. I grew up like Goku out there in the wilds. Seen things with my eyes that my brain still can't explain. Snapping turtles as big as gators. All sorts of stuff.

Anyway, to cut to the topic, we started seeing these big hornets one summer. When they are in flight, they look red. All of them are 1-2 inches long. Their bodies are yellow and striped. Aggressive is what these hornets are by definition. If we were hammering or laughing and having a good time outside, it was only minutes before we'd see 2-3 of these hornets circling us at a distance of about 20 ft. You could hear the buzz coming from them. If we didn't stop making noise, they would come in on a warning dive bomb. Very aggressive. If the matter still didn't resolve, more would arrive.

We were able to sort of manage it for a while. These things also don't like porch lights at night, and so we would have to keep it off to keep from having the damn things attacking the front door to our house. Now, you would think that the nest had to be really close by, but I had been over just about every square inch of the area surrounding my house and never came across the nest. There had to have been a dead tree standing somewhere between us and our neighbor on the other side of the woods where they just had enough straight line vision to see our porch light.

Well, my dad being the no-nonsense kind of boomer who served two stints in the army and overcame a bunch of shit growing up did the responsible thing and took the cover off some box fans and set up a couple of bright flood lights behind these fans. There were thousands of hornet carcasses sprayed across our front yard after a couple of nights of this. At the height of the confrontation, it got so bad that the side of our house was covered in these hornets. Our windows were a crawling mass of hornets looking for a way to get into the house and git us. But afterwards, we never saw the red demons again. I think went years without seeing them after that.

We called them japanese hornets back in the '90s, but we were clearly mistaken, I think. These things had to be the European hornet, which looks almost as bad as the murder hornets. I spent a lot of time in proximity to these hornets, and my assessment is if one was near by you had better keep an eye on it. They did not respect space. Anything would agitate them. They routinely would down dragon flies and many other things bigger than them.
 
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NeoIkaruGAF

NeoIkaruGAF

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Cunth said:
how do they know they are asian? is it cause they're yellow?
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Their buzzing sounds like "uguu" and they can kick your ass at Puyo Puyo.


We have some trouble with regular wasps and hornets here in the summer from time to time. Last year my neighbours went on vacation for a month. They came back to a nest of hornets in their house's external wall and a nest of wasps in a cardboard box in their garden. I had spotted the hornets and warned the neighbours before they came home - one of the mofos entered my house after sunset so i guessed the nest must be close by. But nobody in the neighbourhood ever even noticed a single wasp, yet the damn nest was huge already.

I can't even imagine having a nest of more aggressive species like American yellow jackets or Asian hornets near your house. My mother was stung by a hornet years ago, I remember her screaming and having trouble breathing. These things are no joke.
 
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hariseldon

Unconfirmed Member
StormCell said:
Lemme share my story with you then.



You know, I could'a sworn I've already met these f'n murder hornets growing up in East TN but I guess not.

Gather round, GAF. It's story time.

I grew up in East TN living out in the sticks. We had 20 acres of mostly untamed forested land. Creeks. Ridge tops. Swamps. You name it. I grew up like Goku out there in the wilds. Seen things with my eyes that my brain still can't explain. Snapping turtles as big as gators. All sorts of stuff.

Anyway, to cut to the topic, we started seeing these big hornets one summer. When they are in flight, they look red. All of them are 1-2 inches long. Their bodies are yellow and striped. Aggressive is what these hornets are by definition. If we were hammering or laughing and having a good time outside, it was only minutes before we'd see 2-3 of these hornets circling us at a distance of about 20 ft. You could hear the buzz coming from them. If we didn't stop making noise, they would come in on a warning dive bomb. Very aggressive. If the matter still didn't resolve, more would arrive.

We were able to sort of manage it for a while. These things also don't like porch lights at night, and so we would have to keep it off to keep from having the damn things attacking the front door to our house. Now, you would think that the nest had to be really close by, but I had been over just about every square inch of the area surrounding my house and never came across the nest. There had to have been a dead tree standing somewhere between us and our neighbor on the other side of the woods where they just had enough straight line vision to see our porch light.

Well, my dad being the no-nonsense kind of boomer who served two stints in the army and overcame a bunch of shit growing up did the responsible thing and took the cover off some box fans and set up a couple of bright flood lights behind these fans. There were thousands of hornet carcasses sprayed across our front yard after a couple of nights of this. At the height of the confrontation, it got so bad that the side of our house was covered in these hornets. Our windows were a crawling mass of hornets looking for a way to get into the house and git us. But afterwards, we never saw the red demons again. I think went years without seeing them after that.

We called them japanese hornets back in the '90s, but we were clearly mistaken, I think. These things had to be the European hornet, which looks almost as bad as the murder hornets. I spent a lot of time in proximity to these hornets, and my assessment is if one was near by you had better keep an eye on it. They did not respect space. Anything would agitate them. They routinely would down dragon flies and many other things bigger than them.
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Did anyone else have Morgan Freeman's voice in their head for the duration of that post?
 
Liljagare

Liljagare

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Those Mandarin wasps are nasty, we got the Vespa Vulgaris in Scandinavia:

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Swear to god they are able to figure things out by observing. I usually capture small wasps and bees in a cup to toss them out, theese guys see you coming with the mug and hop in willingly, or chase you all over the house.
 
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iconmaster

iconmaster

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StormCell said:
Anyway, to cut to the topic, we started seeing these big hornets one summer. When they are in flight, they look red. All of them are 1-2 inches long. Their bodies are yellow and striped. Aggressive is what these hornets are by definition. If we were hammering or laughing and having a good time outside, it was only minutes before we'd see 2-3 of these hornets circling us at a distance of about 20 ft. You could hear the buzz coming from them. If we didn't stop making noise, they would come in on a warning dive bomb. Very aggressive. If the matter still didn't resolve, more would arrive.
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Wonder if they could have been cicada killers. Striped, but reddish wings could make them look red in flight. Aggressive in mating season.
 
eot

eot

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StormCell said:
We called them japanese hornets back in the '90s, but we were clearly mistaken, I think. These things had to be the European hornet, which looks almost as bad as the murder hornets. I spent a lot of time in proximity to these hornets, and my assessment is if one was near by you had better keep an eye on it. They did not respect space. Anything would agitate them. They routinely would down dragon flies and many other things bigger than them.
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European Hornets can get pretty big but they're not one of the hyper-aggresive hornet species
 
StormCell

StormCell

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eot said:
European Hornets can get pretty big but they're not one of the hyper-aggresive hornet species
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I'm finding that to be the case based on information online, but that is shocking to me when I reflect back on my childhood experience with them. I think we sort of chalked it up to proximity to their nest and simply having confrontations too frequently. I hated those damn things. No other wasp or bee, or even hornet, was as intrusive or confrontational as those damn things.
 
GymWolf

GymWolf

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they still have nothing on the giant armoured centipede, that shit is far more scary and disgusting.
 
DeepEnigma

DeepEnigma

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Liljagare said:
Those Mandarin wasps are nasty, we got the Vespa Vulgaris in Scandinavia:

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Swear to god they are able to figure things out by observing. I usually capture small wasps and bees in a cup to toss them out, theese guys see you coming with the mug and hop in willingly, or chase you all over the house.
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I bet they do, much like smarter birds.
 
Omega Supreme Holopsicon

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Patrick S.

Patrick S.

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Last year there was a wasp nest under our roof. In Germany, wasps are a protected species, and destroying a nest carries a fine. You're supposed to call a professional and have the nest relocated without relocating it. Fuck paying for that, and fuck wasps. I went and bought a can of wasp spray, which sprays a super thick and strong beam of venom that rips apart most of the nest, and kills all the wasps in the process. Muahaha!
 
Patrick S.

Patrick S.

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DunDunDunpachi said:
Sure, but I said larger insects. Stinkbugs are barely the size of a thumbnail.
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Also last year, during summer, we had dozens of those on one side of our house. I just left them be, though, because I didn't really feel bothered by them. Never had them before last year... this year I've seen a few already, too. Yay climate change I guess.
 
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hariseldon

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Patrick S. said:
Last year there was a wasp nest under our roof. In Germany, wasps are a protected species, and destroying a nest carries a fine. You're supposed to call a professional and have the nest relocated without relocating it. Fuck paying for that, and fuck wasps. I went and bought a can of wasp spray, which sprays a super thick and strong beam of venom that rips apart most of the nest, and kills all the wasps in the process. Muahaha!
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Why is Germany so pussified? Wasps a protected species? What the fuck?
 
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