Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Chalk one up for the underdogs. Nemo me impune lacessit - "no one dare attack me with impunity" - Native Japanese Honeybee's git-r'-done.
"A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense." - Nationalgeographic.com
/ thanks Boing Boing for the link.
"A small but highly efficient killing machine lurks in the mountains of Japan—the Japanese giant hornet. The voracious predator pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Just a handful of these hornets can kill 30,000 European honeybees within hours. Watch an attack of giant hornets on a beehive, and learn the surprising secret that Japanese honeybees use in their defense." - Nationalgeographic.com
/ thanks Boing Boing for the link.
2 Comments:
Yikes... makes you want to be carefull when you're wandering in the back woods of Japan...
especially for us allergic types...
:(
heh,
last time i got bit by one, i ballooned up a whee bit too. still, it IS a great little vid no?
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