Dragonfly eats giant asian hornet

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Dragonfly eats giant asian hornet
Tweet Topic Started: Nov 5 2015, 01:40 PM (1,220 Views)
Mirounga leonina	Nov 5 2015, 01:40 PM Post #1
Herbivore Posts: 600 Group: Members Member #3,632 Joined: Oct 6, 2015	Description: (pulled from Video) This Dragonfly eats a giant Asian hornet after catching it the air. no joke the Dragonfly was enjoying the meal as you can see on the video.



Grimace	Nov 5 2015, 02:58 PM Post #2
Kleptoparasite Posts: 2,288 Group: Members Member #2,170 Joined: Feb 11, 2014	Is that actually a giant asian hornet? Just questioning it because it looks to be way too small in comparison to the dragonfly to be one.



Creeper	Nov 5 2015, 04:06 PM Post #3
Carboniferous Arthropod Posts: 1,585 Group: Global Moderators Member #154 Joined: Jan 29, 2012	Grimace Nov 5 2015, 02:58 PM Is that actually a giant asian hornet? Just questioning it because it looks to be way too small in comparison to the dragonfly to be one. It's too blurry, shadowy, and shaky for me to tell much about the hornet. There are some massive dragonfly species though.



Grimace	Nov 5 2015, 04:13 PM Post #4
Kleptoparasite Posts: 2,288 Group: Members Member #2,170 Joined: Feb 11, 2014	That is Anotogaster sieboldii which stays under 4 inches. Couldn't be a japanese giant or it would be way way bigger proportionally.



Creeper	Nov 5 2015, 04:25 PM Post #5
Carboniferous Arthropod Posts: 1,585 Group: Global Moderators Member #154 Joined: Jan 29, 2012	Considering that A. sieboldii is a Japanese native, I agree that if it is V. mandarinia that the dragonfly is killing it's probably japonica. The hornet doesn't look half the length of the dragonfly though.



Mirounga leonina	Nov 5 2015, 09:09 PM Post #6
Herbivore Posts: 600 Group: Members Member #3,632 Joined: Oct 6, 2015	The hornet in the video does appear to be a remnant though (just a head and thorax)



Mesopredator	Nov 6 2015, 04:32 AM Post #7
Disaster taxa Posts: 1,902 Group: Members Member #499 Joined: Aug 6, 2012	All I can say on this is that I know that the Asian predatory wasp is often confused as Asian giant hornets. But it doesn't look to be this species of hornet either. The Asian predatory wasp can be found in Japan.



Mirounga leonina	Nov 6 2015, 06:22 AM Post #8
Herbivore Posts: 600 Group: Members Member #3,632 Joined: Oct 6, 2015	Hmmm I'm going to try to get the best quality zoomed in snapshot from the video for better identification. Edited by Mirounga leonina, Nov 6 2015, 02:19 PM.



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