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tania:
japan is also where asian giant hornets live. they are the length of your thumb and they attack you by:

- spraying flesh-eating acid
- into your eyes
- which contains a pheromone that causes other giant hornets to come over and sting you to death.

take a look at that description, and how it gets worse and worse as you read it even though it was already pretty horrific to begin with. it could be that maybe japan is just a freaky place but i kind of like the idea of a god that really hates tommy better.

Nettle:
What do you like about keeping a pet spider? (curious)

bbqrocks:
If I liked the way spiders moved, then I too would love them as pets. Hell...Their fast predators that you can keep in a box.

Do you guys have to buy live bait for them, or what? Cos I used to have nightmares about the local pet store bait...They had all the insects and stuff up on the top shelf, and I could just imagine me standing there and suddenly, everything slides off and I get covered in beetles.

It's the way spiders and some beetle type thing's work that scare me. I'm not very squeamish (couldn't care less about blood or nasty injuries, apart from to the testicular region), it's just the way their legs...Uhhh.

KvP:

--- Quote from: ephemere on 20 Aug 2008, 18:28 ---japan is also where asian giant hornets live.
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Man, I fucking hate wasps. If anybody gets between me and escape from these things they best be prepared to die.

est:

--- Quote ---Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the defenses of many individual honey bees, whose small stings cannot inflict much damage against such a large predator, the Japanese honey bee possesses a collective defense against them.  When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive it will emit specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the honey bees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so will gather near the entrance of the nest and keep it open, apparently to draw the hornet further into the hive or allow it to enter on its own. As the hornet enters the nest, a large mob of about five hundred honey bees surrounds it, completely covering it and preventing it from moving, and begin quickly vibrating their flight muscles. This has the effect of raising the temperature of the honey bee mass to 47 °C (117 °F). The honey bees can just about tolerate this temperature, but the hornet cannot survive more than 45 °C (113 °F), so it dies. Often several bees perish along with the intruder, but the death of the hornet scout prevents it from summoning reinforcements which would wipe out the colony
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awesome

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