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Beautiful wasp zombifies cockroach

Gladstone
Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
in Yellow Snow's Record Shoppe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySwuQhruBo
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  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    That was great. Wonderful camera work.
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  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    Up close pictures of a yellow jacket stinger


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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    Murder hornets have assigned nest guards:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5eVW-6xfo
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    LebamDawg said:

    that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
    With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
    more of a zombie would be more accurate.

    Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

    https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

    Great link. I thought the tarantula hawk was the worst sting in the world but those bullet ant accounts are pure nightmare fuel.

    "Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel."
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,846 Swaye's Wigwam
    Ice_Holmvik said:

    Last September I was setting up elk camp in the Colockum. My black lab was with me and I got out the weed whacker to start clearing grass. I see my dog start snapping at his butt just before the first hornet stings me. I'd disturbed an underground yellow jackets nest and a nest of bald faced hornets on the back of a log. Fortunately hornets go after black so my hound got it worse than I did. We took off running. I've got 3 bfh attached to my shirt. Those bastards will latch on and keep giving you the business. Were running and I'm swatting at myself, I look at my dog and the poor fellow has hornets attached to his fur coming along for the ride. I started smacking him while running trying to knock the hornets off of him. We ran over 100 yards on a dead sprint and those bastards were still stinging us. I flat out couldn't run anymore I was gasping for air rolling on an old logging road trying to smash the remaining hornets. When it was over I got bit/stung 8 times that found skin. Not sure how many the dog had but they were flat out stuck to his hide letting him have it.



    I never would have made it to the hospital. I would be in HH Hell (worse than actually being here). Damn, glad you made it. When I went to the hospital, I got stung once, at the same time my wife took out the nest she got stung 6 times. Joke in the family now. On that list of stings, the BFH should be up higher
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,846 Swaye's Wigwam
    bald face hornets - https://www.pestco.com/9-reasons-to-fear-the-bald-faced-hornet/

    one of the best descriptions of them I think
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