Giant Asian Hornets Killing People in China in Vicious Fashion

[Proudiddy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/giant-asian-hornets-killing-people-china_n_4023249.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

What's the buzz about giant Asian hornets? They'll kill you painfully and thoroughly -- and they've been reported in the U.S.

Climate change might be contributing to a global rise in insect numbers. As if that weren't bad enough, some of the bugs that appear to be benefitting from that population surge are giant Asian hornets that are killing people unfortunate enough to disturb them.

UPDATE: Oct. 4, 7:45 p.m. -- Citing Chinese government sources, CNN reports that at least 42 people have died and 1,675 have been injured as a result of giant Asian hornets in Shaanxi province since July.

Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Southwest Biological Institute in Tucson, Ariz., told CNN that Vespa mandarinia carries a venom that destroys red blood cells, which can result in kidney failure and death, and noted that allergies to the venom can trigger cardiac arrest or cause airways to close.

[Zaximus]

I guess it's safe to say the Charlotte Hornets won't have many fans over there.

[Proudiddy]

Yeah, but I was thinking how awesome that makes it for us to become the Hornets again...

[bLACKpANTHER]

[bLACKpANTHER]

[Darth Biscuit]

Those things are freaky

[P.I.A]

Wat

[Cary Kollins]

Fug. That.

[Cary Kollins]

I wonder if Giant SUV sized insects are next on the evolutionary timeline...

[Panthro]

I already overcame my fear when I thought these were deadly hornets

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

[Cat]

I saw a picture of the stings, jesus christ it was fuging sick.

 

 

[Darth Biscuit]

Yeah, the venom like eats flesh, so the people who get stung have big holes left in them... it's nasty.

 

 

[Panthro]

I hear there is also a WASP problem in Ballentyne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dpantherman]

Thanks, I'm already afraid of bees.