Topic: This Hornet Will Be the Last Thing You See Before You Die

[Highwind Dragoon]

http://gawker.com/this-hornet-will-be-the-last-thing-you-see-before-you-d-1428724767

DEAR GOD GET THE FLAMETHROWERS! 

[Abnormal Freak]

"Last summer, some Asian giant hornets were spotted in Illinois."

OH MY FUCK, NOOOOOOOOO!

That's when it turned from "that sucks" to "I fear for my life." Way too close to home.

I'll leave you with this video I saw a few years ago:

Hornets From Hell - National Geographic

[X]

You know... There are just some species on this world that will not be missed or deserve to be wiped out. These are one of them. Wipe them the f**k out!

[Intersection]

You know... There are just some species on this world that will not be missed or deserve to be wiped out. These are one of them. Wipe them the f**k out!

Hornets aren't only there to sting people, you know; they have other, far more important roles in nature. Wiping them out could have serious disruptive effects in many key ecosystems...

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And yet... Well, from a more human point of view, I can't say I disagree. 
In fact, I'd add mosquitoes to the list. Preposterously pestilent pests -- those damn fools think they can measure up to Dracula?

[Abnormal Freak]

Hornets aren't only there to sting people, you know; they have other, far more important roles in nature.

Like being the basis for cool cartoony basketball mascots.

[Intersection]

Like being the basis for cool cartoony basketball mascots.

Exactly. Without hornets, no basketball. That isn't what we want, is it?

[Bloodreign]

Except Hornets down here changed to Pelicans. It was like bad magic.

[Abnormal Freak]

Duuuuumb. Hornets were awesome just 'cos of that logo. Them and the then-fictitious Mighty Ducks jerseys were awesome.

(I never actually followed basketball as a kid, just thought the team mascots were cool. Guess you could say I was a poser.)

[Laina]

Can we add Camel Spiders to the list of "shit we wish weren't livin' no more"?

But yes, back on track, these are terrifying little murder machines. I was always a little unnerved that my grade school mascot was the Yellow Jacket. I always imagined my high school mascot galloping in & impaling them with his lance (h.s. was "The Crusaders").

[Mooning Freddy]

There are some real evil insects in nature. If you thought the mosquito is annoying and dangerous for distributing malaria (one of the worst and still wide-spread diseases in parts of Africa and Asia), than know that there are tiny sandflies around desert areas who distribute a horrible disease called Jericho Buttons or Cutaneous Leishmaniasis . That's some nasty stuff.

[X]

There's also a type of hornet or wasp (can't remember which) residing in Japan that I wish never existed. It will sting you, and when it does the wound becomes infected or something and releases an odor. This odor attracts more of these little shits to you and they will continue what the first one did. In simpler language the victim is f**ked.

Hornets aren't only there to sting people, you know; they have other, far more important roles in nature.

Not at that size they don't. And I stand by my argument with God as my witness.

[uzo]

NOPE.

[Kingshango]

The second I see a hornet that big I'll be running like a Kenyan at the Olympics.

[Intersection]

Not at that size they don't. And I stand by my argument with God as my witness.

And yet you'd think he created them...

[X]

And yet you'd think he created them...

I think they evolved due to our interference with industrial waste pollution. Kinda like how nuclear radiation created Godzilla.