[genkisan]

Well, mebbe "not allowed" is a bit severe.....but these are four insects you REALLY don't want to fuck with.


JAPANESE HORNET



Picture of a nest(note the guy's boot lower left!!)

A small but highly efficient killing machine—a hornet two inches long and with a wingspan up to three inches—lurks in the mountains of Japan. The voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger that pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue.
Bees, other hornet species, and larger insects such as praying mantises are no match for the giant hornets, which often stalk their prey in relentless armies. Just one of these hornets can kill 40 European honeybees a minute; a handful of the creatures can slaughter 30,000 European honeybees within hours, leaving a trail of severed insect heads and limbs.

GIANT CENTIPEDE

This is the creature you have to give respect to, venomous, fast, intelligent, it can chew through almost anything and fears nothing, you really don't want it to escape. Never have I placed such high priority on an enclosure for anything that I have ever kept. The Hercules centipede is the largest species of centipede in the world.In the jungles of the Amazon where this magnificent Centipede lives, invertebrates and vertebrates must be aware as dusk falls. There are many stories and tales of giant scolopendrids reaching fifteen inches in length and feeding on snakes and rats in central America. A specimen about eleven inches in length can consume an adult mouse in about two hours completely, not even bones or fur are left.

(I did NOT write that.. I am not stupid enought to keep those fookin' things)

BULLET ANT

They are not called ‘Bullet’ Ants because they are the size of bullets – although, at a full inch in length, they ARE the size of some bullets. They are called ‘Bullet’ Ants because the pain their sting causes is akin to being shot with a .45 caliber bullet. The neurotoxin-induced pain lasts for days or weeks, and in enough numbers can kill a full-grown man dead in record time, ensuring that the pain he feels before his body finally gives up and breaks like glass is enough to completely fuck up his afterlife.

Arboreal, Bullet Ants are fiercely territorial and eat just about anything they want. They have highly developed stingers, as well as exceptionally well-formed sound-producing organs. If you come too close to their nest, they give you a warning shriek. They are gigantic, tree-dwelling ants that emit blood-curdling shrieks before swarming on your head and pounding you with the most painful poison in the insect world. Sure, some insects’ venom will kill you quicker, but for sheer, mind-gnawing, gut-wrenching, body-wracking, dear-God-why-have-you-forsaken-me pain, you just cannot beat the Bullet Ant.

PEPSIS WASP

The pepsis wasps prefer female tarantulas and seek them in their burrows. They capture (often following a dramatic battle), sting and paralyze the spider. Next they either drag the spider back into her own burrow or transport their prey to a specially prepared nest where a single egg is laid on the spider’s body, and the entrance is covered. The wasp larva, upon hatching, begins to suck the juices from the still-living spider. After the larva grows a bit it plunges into the spider's body and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep it fresh. The adult wasp emerges from the nest to continue the life cycle.

The sting, particularly of ''Pepsis formosa'', is among the most painful of any insect. Commenting on his own experience one researcher said, "You will curse your mother for ever having you." Another described, "...immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations." Yet another said, "It's not like things that make you swear and say bad things about somebody's mother. These things, when you get stung, you might as well lie down and scream. Why not? It takes your attention off the pain."

Insects have always ruled this planet...and always will.....esp with monsters llike these around.....

This entire thread made me shutter! There sure are some crazy bugs out there though. I watched some thing on disovery channel about these ants that traveled in these HUGE groups, just like a solid line 3 inches thick of ants always walking. These ants eat cows, horses, hell they even said they tried to eat a baby!

It would almost be fun being one of those bugs too though. "Look at this guy, he doesn't even know what hes in for..."*evil bug laugh* Ok I'm either too stoned or not stoned enough...time to figure out which.

[exodus]

You know, living in the US, its almost hard to comprehend that such things actually exist.

Damn thats a big bee.

That centipede looks like it would be great saut'ed in a little olive oil & garlic
and munched with a nice zinfandel!!

Bh

Why in the name of God is he holding that chit?

[genkisan]

Originally Posted by exodus

You know, living in the US, its almost hard to comprehend that such things actually exist.

Damn thats a big bee.

Well, that great big black wasp with the orange wings is from the US......and there are centipedes in Arizona almost as big as that nasty fucker I posted.

Why in the name of God is he holding that chit?

Jebus only knows.....the centipede looks really well fed, which would explain that pic, but the schmuck with the Japanese Hornet has NO excuse.....he is just either a masochist, an idiot, or both.

You left out spyder mite................

[DJ Twist]

These live in the US:


They can be found in Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona.

Sleep tight...

[mean mr.mustard]

and mosquitoes and fleas and ticks and anything that sucks blood... those are all from hell

[Lord Fatwa]

I was watching Animal Planet, or maybe it was Discovery Channel, well they showed a group of Japanese Hornets take over a full hive of European Honeybees. It was like nothing I've ever seen; 1 million bees vs. 60 japanese hornets...