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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Wow, then what we need is pheromone 'neutralizer'. Spray or some kind. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I had one of these flying around inside the window in my classroom last year....looked pretty messed up and dying though - literally on par with those ones in the photos size-wise. Showed my students and everyone crowded around taking pics with their iphones. If only I'd known at the time they have the tendency to spray flesh-melting poison into your eyes which are loaded with pheromones which will attract every other hornet in the nest to come and basically sting you until you're dead class would have been cancelled on the spot and I would have been screaming like a school girl and pushing the little darlings out of the way, George Costanza style to flee the classroom first. Truly terrifying things. |
Good lord 
You make it sound like you were faced with a xenomorph from the Aliens series. |
Of course. So far they've killed 42 people. That's more than both Y2K *and* the end of the Mayan calendar combined! Possibly even Comet Hale Bopp too.
There's some photos here of what the stings look like....
http://www.businessinsider.com/asian-giant-hornet-sting-2013-10
Ouchies.
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| The insect responsible for the deaths is the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), which has a 6 millimeter stinger that injects its victim with venom containing a neurotoxin that is "powerful enough to dissolve human tissue," |
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| These images from a local news report posted to LiveLeak show how venom from the sting appears to make a hole in the human flesh. |
I think my effeminate terror is an appropriate reaction to seeing something which is capable of doing that. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| lemak wrote: |
| I had one of these flying around inside the window in my classroom last year....looked pretty messed up and dying though - literally on par with those ones in the photos size-wise. Showed my students and everyone crowded around taking pics with their iphones. If only I'd known at the time they have the tendency to spray flesh-melting poison into your eyes which are loaded with pheromones which will attract every other hornet in the nest to come and basically sting you until you're dead class would have been cancelled on the spot and I would have been screaming like a school girl and pushing the little darlings out of the way, George Costanza style to flee the classroom first. Truly terrifying things. |
Good lord
You make it sound like you were faced with a xenomorph from the Aliens series. |
Of course. So far they've killed 42 people. That's more than both Y2K *and* the end of the Mayan calendar combined! Possibly even Comet Hale Bopp too.
There's some photos here of what the stings look like....
http://www.businessinsider.com/asian-giant-hornet-sting-2013-10
Ouchies.
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| The insect responsible for the deaths is the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), which has a 6 millimeter stinger that injects its victim with venom containing a neurotoxin that is "powerful enough to dissolve human tissue," |
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| These images from a local news report posted to LiveLeak show how venom from the sting appears to make a hole in the human flesh. |
I think my effeminate terror and wetting of panties are appropriate reactions to seeing something which is capable of doing that. |
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