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Their stings can cause a deadly anaphylactic reaction where a human's airway are blocked or can even cause a cardiac arrest. The Vespa Mandarina also known as the "Tiger Head"is the largest hornet species in the world, which is roughly the size of a human thumb, and can carry a venom so powerful that it will destroy the red blood cells of a human being. These hornets are directly responsible for the deaths of 42 people and injuring another1,675 Chinese victims since July of 2016 and that is not including other related deaths in the neighboring Asian countries of Korea, Japan, India and Nepal.
A Chinese woman named, Mu Conghui, was attending to her crops when she was suddenly swarmed by these giant hornets, and stung her in the head and in the legs, which paralyzed her whole body. Two months later after 13 dialysis treatments and 200 stitches later, she still cannot move from her hospital bed. They tend to be more aggressive during the months of September and October and do NOT hibernate until December. They also tend to be extra sensitive and aggressive when humans and animals run and attracted to human sweat, alcohol. sweet flowers and certain smells or odors.
These flying killers, also described as a wasp analog of a pit bull, feast on other wasps and bees by biting their heads off during coordinated attacks on their hives. Their nests are usually located in secluded places like a hollow tree, log or even underground and described as basketball shape made out of grey paper. These deadly insects are very unlikely to travel to the United States because they would not be able to cross the nasty deserts of Western Europe, which they are not adapted to.
There are drinks served in the Asian countries that employ the body parts of the giant hornet, for instance, in Japan there is a sports energy drink called VAAM, which incorporates the amino acids of the hornet and in Taiwan where the insect is served as a alcoholic drink. Now that's what I call a "buzz".
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