Bug identification help needed

[me_in_japan]

I know thats why I said the chap with it on his hand was an idiot. Mukade just means centipede, btw (in a quirk of "hey, people think the same", the kanji for mukade (百足) are the kanji for "100" and the kanji for "foot", which is pretty much what "centi-pede" means. It's not a great leap of nomenclature, I suppose...)

Anyway, dangerous they certainly are, although I believe the hornets are far worse. Mukade bites hurt like a screaming sonovabitch, but won't kill a healthy adult. Hornet stings, otoh, can and do kill people every year.

[Primarch]

Ok, that does it. I am moving back to the UK. That hornet thing is just scary.

[me_in_japan]

Had you not seen em before? OK, I know you're in the big city and all, but...

I get those hornets flying into my classroom mid lesson sometimes. I remember a coupla years ago when I was teaching 1st years (12 yrs old), and one kid, in a burst of needs-must skill at English said "sensei, sensei - big bee! big bee!" and pointed to one of those buggers that had just flown into the classroom and was circling the poor wee lassies menacingly. The problem with that situation was, of course, that the option of "aaagh! run away!" wasnt available. Muggins here had to walk up to the bloody thing and chase it away Yeesh. The things I do for my job...

[Primarch]

Oh, I'd seen them before, I just didn't realise that they could spit acid, their stings were potentially lethal or that they could summon a swarm to come and kill you if they did sting you and you didn't drop to the ground stone dead straight off the bat.

Is there any reason why the government isnt doing all it can to eradicate these things? Sheesh, if I were prime minister, that would be top of my list of priorities.

[YellowStreak]

Jeebus that hornet is nasty! It is nice to see we Aussies don't have the monopoly on all the nastiest insects in the world!

[Primarch]

Jeebus that hornet is nasty! It is nice to see we Aussies don't have the monopoly on all the nastiest insects in the world!

Ok, if an Australian thinks a bug looks scary, that is a seriously scary bug indeed.

[The Underdweller]

Oh, I'd seen them before, I just didn't realise that they could spit acid, their stings were potentially lethal or that they could summon a swarm to come and kill you if they did sting you and you didn't drop to the ground stone dead straight off the bat.

Is there any reason why the government isnt doing all it can to eradicate these things? Sheesh, if I were prime minister, that would be top of my list of priorities.

Actually, they are raised by people in Nagano and other places for their larvae, which they eat raw. A lot of the fatal stings happen to this group, I guess!

[Tenorikuma]

What's amazing is how Japanese honeybees defend themselves against the killer wasps. They form a big ball of hundreds of bees around the wasp and vibrate their wings to produce heat, getting so hot that the wasp in the middle, along with some of the bees, roasts to death.

[ashmie]

lol, so that's why the kids were all scared in class the other day and I was nonchalantly giving it "Er what, it's just a big bee, don't sweat it." They looked at me like I was insanely brave. (Just stupid folks, sorry).