Vespa mandarinia
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Owner:
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DungeonRice
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Released:
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
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Origin:
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Iowa, United States
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Unknown Location
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My mission is to travel to the GC62 multi-cache, a historic 1st placed state cache in Texas near Dallas.
If you can move me toward my destination from my current location please take me and log me at geocaching.com
Also we would love to see pictures of Vespa's journey to the GC!
Goal destination N 32° 43.622' W 097° 06.961'
Difficulity 2.5
Terrain 3
Once placed in the cache it can be kept by the next person who finds it.
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), including the subspecies Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica), colloquially known as the yak-killer hornet, is the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia. They prefer to live in low mountains and forests while almost completely avoiding plains and high altitude climates. V. mandarinia creates nests by digging, co-opting pre-existing tunnels dug by rodents, or occupying spaces near rotted pine roots. It feeds primarily on larger insects and honey from honey bee colonies. Some dimensions of this hornet are a body length of 45 mm (1.8 in), a wingspan of about 75 mm (3.0 in), and stinger of 6 mm (0.24 in) which injects a large amount of potent venom.
The venom contains a neurotoxin called mandaratoxin, each year in Japan, the human death toll caused by Asian giant hornet stings is around 30 to 40.
Those who died, on average, were stung 59 times (with a standard deviation of 12) while those who survived suffered 28 stings (with a standard deviation of 4).
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