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<\/figure>\n\nBehavior<\/h3>\n\n
A wasp the size of a big dog is gruesome enough, but that\u2019s nothing compared to their life cycle. I imagine at some point a male hornet will hum a female hornet. You got that? I used \u2018hum\u2019 as a sinom\u2026 symon\u2026 mysonym\u2026 byword for \u2018fuck\u2019. If you didn\u2019t get the joke, you can go hum yourselves. The thing is I couldn\u2019t make apart males from females, all of them have a sting and they all seem capable of releasing larvae, so, what the fuck should I know. Maybe they are hermaflorists, which for those of you who don\u2019t know, means that they don\u2019t need a second person to breed or they just wank it off. Or maybe males just spend the day sitting in a dark hole, just like all my brothers in law.<\/p>\n\n
The thing is that for these creatures to breed, they have to sting a suitable victim and introduce a quite big egg into its body for the larva to hatch when it is already warm inside the new body. This host can be an animal, creature, person\u2026 but always at least the size of the parent hornet. The puppeteering bitch grasp its victim from behind, with its maw around the host\u2019s neck and holding it down with their spiky legs.<\/p>\n\n
Then two things happen: first the host starts to lose control of its body, which is from now on controlled by the larva as if it was a puppet (oh, yeah, you bright bastard, that\u2019s where the name \u2018puppeteering hornet\u2019 comes from) and then, the new guest starts to feed from the insides of its host. If you end up in this revolting situation, congratulations, you are now a member of the addlernet community.<\/p>\n\n
What I found very intriguing is that the addlernets are not completely random in their acts. They don\u2019t usually get far from the main colony, but they can even eat extrange things they can find, from roots to small dead animals. They can even engage in some kind of clumsy close combat. I don\u2019t really know if the larva inside them has some kind of inteligence to control the host, or if this later has some type of \u2018memories\u2019 allowing it to repear very simple tasks.<\/p>\n\n
The larva keeps feeding from the addlernet, stealing its lifeforce, but even so the doomed host retains certain hability to perform basic jobs. It depends on the host\u2019s size and strength how long this phase is, but for what I saw it ranges from two to four weeks. When the body can simply go no further and the larva has grown almost to full size, it rips off the body and wanders free to go humming around the world.<\/p>\n\n
The few times I managed to capture an addlernet to study, I wasn\u2019t able to get the larva out of it without killing the host.<\/p>\n\n
Uses<\/h3>\n\n
This is a creature you don\u2019t want to use for anything, but it seems to be a tribe near the Great Rift that hunts, captures and extracts the eggs of these beasts (not their nuts, you know, the eggs of the larvae I mean) for some stuff. Stories say that they are capable of keeping the eggs \u201calive\u201d for some time, and then implant them in new hosts without affecting the life cycle of the hornet. They might use them for many crazy things, such as torturing prisioners or maybe an insane rite of passage. I can\u2019t tell for sure if this is true, because I never met this tribe of savage and fuck me if I wanted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everyone knows wasps are mean animals, you run just to get away from them and they chase you down and they really don\u2019t need many reasons to sting your ass. But they are tiny, you can smash them quite easily and\u2026 I don\u2019t know, their colors are pretty. But fuck those puppeteering hornets, they are ugly motherfuckers alright! They are not only big-sized and all that, but if they sting ya, you don\u2019t only get a welt, but one of the nastiest deaths you can even imagine (although you can laugh you ass out if you are just a witness).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beasts-of-the-wasteland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n