My Pet Suzumebachi - Asian Giant Hornet

The Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) is the world's largest and the most dangerous animal in Japan. These insects are called suzumebachi (sparrow bee) in Japanese and are a common sight during summer months from the high mountains to the forested edges of large cities throughout the country. The insects make their living hunting other insects and specialize in attacking honeybee colonies where they will kill all of the bees and consume the larvae. The native honeybees of Japan, however, are not without defense as they will sometimes ambush en-mass an intruding suzumebachi, covering the hornet with their own bodies. This causes the body temperature of the wasp and bees to rise, killing the wasp which has a lower maximum temperature tolerance than the bees. Imported commercial honeybees have no such defense and are easy victims to suzumebachi in Japan and other parts of Asia.

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Pets & Animals

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• Japan
• Japanese
• Asian
• Giant
• Hornet
• Asian Giant Hornet
• Suzumebachi
• bee
• wasp
• Vespa
• mandarinia
• killer hornet
• Tokaido
• Softypapa

[Batkobra]

Japan is oficially a place I never want to visit,,,,, never.

[khfanXD]

so THATS where soi fon got her zanpakuto :O

[caibra88]

Yeah that hornet was dead in each photo, if you look closely the placement of the body stays the same. I'm sorry had that thing been alive, there is no way it would have been that docile. If anyone has ever seen anything on this specific kind of hornet they are highly aggressive, and spray you with a pheramone that makes the rest of them track you. So this guy is full of shit, that isn't a tameable creature. Your so not even kool either for passing off a dead hornet as a pet.

[mutterschied]

Fifteen days after dying, this mean mutha can bite you if touching the sting area: There's an biological launcher automatically self-operated, and the sensors work exactly like a loaded mousetrap. Watch out fellas: Even with the lil' bug absofuc-king-lutely death AND DRY!!

[SassyCassy2105]

it would kill me in one sting! lol even a normal be would come closeto kill me. im hiley alllergic to bees

[MkNoBLe4]

is it even alive it doesent move

also it looks cool but i would never visit japan

[LogDon69]

Go! Beedrill!

[tamithomas]

enter..hyperventalation..here!­

[SeanKnoxOFFICIAL]

Fuck...That...Shit...

[codii33]

Playing with dead insects... Exciting life....

[snake172]

too much coffee???