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Asian giant hornets have orange heads, but Japanese giant hornets have yellow heads. Am I right? -- Fama Clamosa ( talk) 11:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
-- that is not true. The orange head in the upper left is a queen the yellow heads are workers. -- Mike Trout, Hornethunter.com H0riz0n ( talk) 01:04, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
It is stated that VAAM "is the only sustenance workers imbibe during their adult lives". However, later it is stated that during attacks on bee hives, the "hornets also gorge themselves on the bees' honey." I assume that the worker hornets do not actually gorge themselves on the honey but carry it back to the hive to feed it to the larvae. Or do the workers actually consume the honey as well? As it is now, the article is not completely clear on that point in my eyes. Perhaps someone with sufficient knowledge on the matter could clean it up a bit? -- Ruebezahl ( talk) 17:12, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
This article could benefit from adding information regarding the Japanese giant hornet's natural habitat. It could also discuss the eusocaility and altruism of wasps. -- nef614 ( talk) 21:40, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
The fact that people who are allergic to something can go into anaphylactic shock when exposed to it is not specific to venom, or any other allergen. That is basically the definition of a true allergy, that it can result in anaphylactic shock. 142.161.57.230 ( talk) 18:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Japanese giant hornet/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
== Correction of Japanese usage ==
スズメバチ (suzumebachi) just means "wasp" or "hornet". The Japanese word for giant hornet is オオスズメバチ (oo-suzumebachi), literally meaning "big sparrow bee". Here's a link to the Japanese wikipedia article on suzumebachi. -- 125.172.70.98 ( talk) 14:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC) |
Last edited at 14:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 03:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that in both of the most recent revisions of the genus Vespa, by Carpenter & Kojima in 1997 [1] and by Archer in 2012 [2], they do not recognize japonica as a valid subspecies. Ordinarily, that might not be difficult to accommodate, except in this case, people have created an entirely separate WP article for a former taxon that has essentially not existed for over 20 years. WP is not supposed to promote outdated taxonomy, and given that the world's few actual authorities on hornets do not recognize japonica, there is no justification for continuing to treat it as if it were a subspecies. Accordingly, I am planning a merge of this "Japanese giant hornet" article, and salvageable material therein, to the primary article at Asian giant hornet, which contains the explanation that the former "japonica" subspecies has not been considered valid since 1997. I'm giving a heads-up, essentially, before proceeding with the merge. Dyanega ( talk) 20:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
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My guess is that it depends. Some experts suggested at some point in time they are not subspecies but the same species. But why? Do they have the same external characteristics and same genetic makeup? Why were they disambiguated in the first place? If the source is not clear, I suppose we could be more cautious proceeding with a merger. -- Kaledomo ( talk) 02:02, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
"An individual hornet can kill forty European honey bees per minute"
The source is a youtube video(?) but if one hornet can kill forty bees per minute then it's killing .... 1 every less than two seconds? Is that realistic? Is there a better source?
I'm no expert but that just looks unrealistic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.96.41.21 ( talk) 22:27, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Should we use murder hornets in the lede? It seems like this is becoming a common term for the insect. The lorax ( talk) 22:44, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
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Asian giant hornets have orange heads, but Japanese giant hornets have yellow heads. Am I right? -- Fama Clamosa ( talk) 11:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
-- that is not true. The orange head in the upper left is a queen the yellow heads are workers. -- Mike Trout, Hornethunter.com H0riz0n ( talk) 01:04, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
It is stated that VAAM "is the only sustenance workers imbibe during their adult lives". However, later it is stated that during attacks on bee hives, the "hornets also gorge themselves on the bees' honey." I assume that the worker hornets do not actually gorge themselves on the honey but carry it back to the hive to feed it to the larvae. Or do the workers actually consume the honey as well? As it is now, the article is not completely clear on that point in my eyes. Perhaps someone with sufficient knowledge on the matter could clean it up a bit? -- Ruebezahl ( talk) 17:12, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
This article could benefit from adding information regarding the Japanese giant hornet's natural habitat. It could also discuss the eusocaility and altruism of wasps. -- nef614 ( talk) 21:40, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
The fact that people who are allergic to something can go into anaphylactic shock when exposed to it is not specific to venom, or any other allergen. That is basically the definition of a true allergy, that it can result in anaphylactic shock. 142.161.57.230 ( talk) 18:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Japanese giant hornet/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
== Correction of Japanese usage ==
スズメバチ (suzumebachi) just means "wasp" or "hornet". The Japanese word for giant hornet is オオスズメバチ (oo-suzumebachi), literally meaning "big sparrow bee". Here's a link to the Japanese wikipedia article on suzumebachi. -- 125.172.70.98 ( talk) 14:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC) |
Last edited at 14:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 03:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that in both of the most recent revisions of the genus Vespa, by Carpenter & Kojima in 1997 [1] and by Archer in 2012 [2], they do not recognize japonica as a valid subspecies. Ordinarily, that might not be difficult to accommodate, except in this case, people have created an entirely separate WP article for a former taxon that has essentially not existed for over 20 years. WP is not supposed to promote outdated taxonomy, and given that the world's few actual authorities on hornets do not recognize japonica, there is no justification for continuing to treat it as if it were a subspecies. Accordingly, I am planning a merge of this "Japanese giant hornet" article, and salvageable material therein, to the primary article at Asian giant hornet, which contains the explanation that the former "japonica" subspecies has not been considered valid since 1997. I'm giving a heads-up, essentially, before proceeding with the merge. Dyanega ( talk) 20:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
References
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cite journal}}
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My guess is that it depends. Some experts suggested at some point in time they are not subspecies but the same species. But why? Do they have the same external characteristics and same genetic makeup? Why were they disambiguated in the first place? If the source is not clear, I suppose we could be more cautious proceeding with a merger. -- Kaledomo ( talk) 02:02, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
"An individual hornet can kill forty European honey bees per minute"
The source is a youtube video(?) but if one hornet can kill forty bees per minute then it's killing .... 1 every less than two seconds? Is that realistic? Is there a better source?
I'm no expert but that just looks unrealistic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.96.41.21 ( talk) 22:27, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Should we use murder hornets in the lede? It seems like this is becoming a common term for the insect. The lorax ( talk) 22:44, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
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