Stoned Ramblings

I love moths...yesterday for the 1st time I can remember, I captured a big spider and released him outside. I just happened to see him in a picture I had taken of a cat...it was on the curtain behind him. I got a large glass jar, a piece of paper, and scooped him in there...and there you have it. He was so big, I didn't think he would bite for some reason. It seems the worse ones are small.

 

wasps and hornets. give me a spider any day.

 

yep...and yellow jackets...I'm gonna try and kill those mofos every time. Every Time.

 

It's fascinating to me we develop fears and phobias of creatures that are mostly harmless and we can literally crush in the palm of our hands.

 

and then there's these things.

 

Those are intimidating too, but...they don't tend to fly into our homes, like spiders tend to just appear out of nowhere. It's like, go weave a web in a tree or something, why are you in my house scaring me? Gosh.

 

HF needs a ''dislike'' option.

 

What
The
Fuck
Is
That

 

giant asian hornet. aka 'yak killer' hornet.
somewhere around 2" long, 3" wingspan, and 1/4" long stinger that has been harvested and successfully used as a hypodermic needle in traditional chinese medicine. they can inject up to .5 ml of venom per sting, that damages tissue, is a neurotoxin (more than 10 stings is considered to be 'get your ass to a hospital NOW') and feels like having a red-hot nail driven into your body, with a lovely side effect of often causing kidney failure...
the venom is nasty enough that it can cause death even in people who /aren't/ allergic to it.

 

My guess is it's a synthetic lifeform launched by the government or Bees and Ants have finally evolved to become sexually compatible and the crossbreed is somehow 5x the size of them.

 

Why are these insects so angry?

 

Both these explanations are more comforting than what it actually is

As long as those little shits stay in Asia i guess i'm good

 

oh, they also attack honeybees, and a group of less than 50 of these can wipe a colony of more than 20,000 honeybees.. because they're so heavily armored, a beesting won't even penetrate. the hornets dont' even usually bother stinging the bees, they just one-stroke decapitate them and can kill an average of 40 per minute each.

they can fly at 25mph, and fatalities from envenomation are primarily related to anaphylactic shock or cardiac arrest, though rare cases have occurred where patients died as a result of multiple organ failure, typically after a relatively large number of stings.
Those who died of multiple organ failure additionally exhibited signs of skin hemorrhaging and necrosis, though both are otherwise rare. The two likely reasons for skin hemorrhaging and necrosis are an inability to effectively neutralize the venom, or unusually potent venom toxicity for that set of stings. In either case, these stings lead to multiple organ injury. While not everyone displayed lesions or necrosis, a strong correlation existed between the number of stings and the severity of injury. Those who died, on average, were stung 59 times (with a standard deviation of 12) while those who survived suffered 28 stings (with a standard deviation of 4).

 

for example, average death toll in japan from these is between 30 and 40 annually. that's more than sharks worldwide per year.

 

Well thats it then, i'll never get to see Japan now

 

you'll generally be ok, most of the ones that die tend to be out in the far back of the countryside.. you dont' see many of these around the cities anyway.

 

Thinking of getting some sort of solar panel light bars for camping? Also considering if I should get a pop up shower tent I've seen the bags you put 20l of water in them and leave them in the sun and it warms the water up.

There's a natural stream nearby, but every couple of days I need to clean properly.

 

Funny I saw that today, I'm actually going tomorrow, well not exactly kop. dude is from there but meeting him in malvern.

 

Almost autumn! Yay!