Global warming comes with a deadly sting

[srican69]

..death toll rises to 42 and 1,600 are injured
......

The attacks are an annual problem but have worsened this year, possibly due to warmer weather boosting breeding.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/killer-hornets-see-first-pictures-2327613#ixzz2gfXx3vgJ









we are literally stirring a hornet's nest with global warming, aren't we?

[Stargazer09]

1. Those are the stuff of nightmares

I hope I never, ever see one in person.

[Xyzse]

2. Those thingamabobs are HUGE!

The heck? Where is that? I am going to avoid that area.

If there is a reason to stay indoors, I will be placing that near the top of the list.

[whttevrr]

3. Jesus Christ!

Those fucking things are scary!

But not new...

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

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.

[whttevrr]

5. OMG! Do not google "killer hornets"

http://www.google.com/images?q=Killer+hornets

[lapislzi]

4. Holy. Shit.

Bullets can't stop it. Rockets can't stop it. We may have to use...nuclear force.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Their size has only just sunk in.

[backscatter712]

7. I remember seeing Discovery video of giant hornets in Japan.

One hornet's nest of 30 hornets can completely wipe out a hive of honeybees numbering 30,000. They slaughter them all. 1,000 bees per hornet, and the hornets win!

Talk about high-octane nightmare fuel!