A deadly 'murder hornet' was filmed locked in a vicious battle with a mouse twice its size. And the Asian giant hornet showed just how lethal it is when it killed the rodent with its venom.
Footage, thought to have been captured by a mobile phone, shows a mouse desperately trying to shake off a hornet latched to its side.
The hornet crawls onto the mouse's back and continues to strike with its stinger. At one point, the mouse manages to jerk away in a last feeble attempt at freedom.
But in less than a minute, the mouse finally conceded and lays dead on the sidewalk. The Asian giant hornet flies away. The large insects are normally native to the climates of East Asia where they kill roughly 50 people a year.
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