Japanese giant hornet wasps (including the Japanese hornet). While the sting of the Asian giant hornet is officially rated as only a 2 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, other less official reports have the sting of the Japanese sub species to be rivaling or even exceeding other Hymenopterans such as the Tarantula hawk and even the Bullet Ant, both of which are ranked as a 4 on the respective index. Japanese giant hornet The Japanese giant hornet ("Vespa mandarinia japonica") is a subspecies of the world's largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet ("V. mandarinia"). It is a large insect, with adults frequently
Bare-faced bulbul by quarrying and habitat degradation caused by overgrazing. Bare-faced bulbul The bare-faced bulbul ("Nok hualon") is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It was newly described from central Laos in 2009. It is one of the very few Asian songbirds with a bald (featherless) face and is the first new species of bulbul to be described from Asia in almost a century. The species epithet "hualon" is from the Lao word for "bald-headed". A 2018 molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbuls suggested that the species does not fit in the clade containing the core "Pycnonotus" and stood