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@FBM,

I'd run a mile if I saw one anywhere near me! Rolling Eyes

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@vonny,

Gaah! How does anyone get up the nerve to do that?

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@FBM,

If you don't move a muscle, or bat an eyelid, you're safe as houses.

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@Builder,

Yeah, I can understand that intellectually, but I imagine it takes some kind of nerve to hold still while that thing is crawling on you. I can handle snakes fine, even venomous ones, but a hornet that size is a different story.

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@FBM,

Perhaps the sting was removed first?

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Australian Blue Tongued Lizard

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Seagull walking the line

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Caiman and Turtles, Guatemala

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@vonny,

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Perhaps the sting was removed first?

It's my understanding, Vonny, that wasps and hornets can sting repeatedly, unlike the bee, which drops a stinging barb into your skin.

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@Builder,

Ouch! I think I'd go out shrouded in a beekeeper's net if the giant hornets were in England - I'm already scared of wasps - like bees though!

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If I were dead-set on getting a photo of one of those monsters crawling on me, I know how I'd do it, more or less. I'd catch one and put it in the refrigerator for a while until it's too cold to do anything, but still alive. Then I'd carefully coat its stinger with something that it couldn't penetrate, like a hard epoxy. It wouldn't hurt the hornet, either.

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Jackdaws get padding for their nests from the back of a Kulan, a sub-species of endangered Asian wild donkey, at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland. Photograph: Markku Ojala/EPA/via Guardian

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A man leads his horse out of the Arabian sea in Mumbai, India, after bathing it. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/reuters/via Gd'n

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A man carries his dog on his bicycle on Hong Kong's Cheung Chau island. Motor vehicles are banned from the island, except for emergency use. Photograph: Bobby Yip/reuters/Gd'n

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Snowy owl

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@vonny,

I was bitten by a hornet in an airport. (Not one that big.) I had to fly all the way home in terrible pain. When I got home, I called the poison control center in NYC. They told me to put meat tenderizer on the sting. Huh? I got the tenderizer. It worked in seconds. A miracle.

Who knew.

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@Roberta,

And my mother had a big hornut fly into the back seat of the car and sting her and she went into anaphylactic shock; fast ride to a hospital when my dad figured it out - we were driving from Ohio to Chicago at the time. I've taught myself not to be afraid of bees flying around flowers but never having been bitten, I dunno if I'm allergic. I've friends who are.

A hornet in an airport?? Did you holler?

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Hornuts (sic) would probably hurt too.

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The 8 Benefits Of Dining Alone
http://www.buzzfeed.com/samimain/the-benefits-of-dining-alone?sub=3206585_2865120

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Mantis shrimp (with the fastest punch in the world):

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@FBM,

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If I were dead-set on getting a photo of one of those monsters crawling on me, I know how I'd do it, more or less. I'd catch one and put it in the refrigerator for a while until it's too cold to do anything, but still alive.

I belted this nasty little arthropod with a size ten boot, and thought it was cactus. It started walking up my arm just after taking this photo.

http://maps.bonzle.com/h/q/6/8/p8f4q.jpg

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@Builder,

That looks painful already.

I did something similar with a 5'8" rattlesnake. Good thing I habitually picked it up just behind the head. It started rattling and wrapped itself around my arm. That was fun.

Edit: Exquisite image, by the way!

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