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Surely a bee bit you at least once in your life. Bites honey bees, of course, are quite sensitive, but the pain, As a rule, it passes quickly, leaving only a slight itch. However in Japanese bees have a “distant relative” by order Hymenoptera – Japanese Hornet (Vespa mandarina japonica), whose attack can be much more dangerous for person. Suzumebachi (Japanese name for insect) inhabit only on mountain slopes, overgrown with forests, and reach 5 cm in length, with about 6 mm of body length per sting, and webbed wingspan averages about 7.5 cm. But dimensions – far from the most important hornet weapon: insect produces highly toxic nerve poison, which able to literally dissolve the tissues of the human body, and also causes anaphylactic shock. With a human hornet bite as soon as possible hospitalized, but, nevertheless, from the attacks of “winged samurai” about 40 people die per year. One of the victims of the hornets compares the sensation of a bite with a red-hot nail that was pierced deep into the body. Fortunately, these insects are not too aggressive and attack a person only in the event of a clear threat, but may chase the victim up to five kilometers away. Hornets love to feast on honey, ruining bee hives – one individual is capable of kill 40 bees per minute, and a “squad” of 30 suzumebati can kill up to 30 thousand bees in three hours. Bees in Evolution learned to stop the attacks of giant aggressors using their numerical advantage: about 500 bees enclose a hornet in a dense ball and hard work of muscles raise the temperature inside up to 47 ° C, while the hornet dies from heat shock, and for Beehive Protectors such heat is safe – they withstand 50 ° C.
Insects Bees Japan
