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Hornets have some of the most painful and dangerous stings in the insect world, laced with enough venom to take down small vertebrates, and chase off the big ones. However, a little pong frog out in Japan couldn’t care less. In this video, we look at a very cool experiment aimed at figuring out how pond frogs manage to attack, swallow, and survive stinging hornets, even the massive Asian giant hornet?

Science article covered in this episode:
Sugiura, Shinji. 2025. “ Pond Frog as a Predator of Hornet Workers: High Tolerance to Venomous Stings.” Ecosphere 16(12): e70457. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70457

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