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A heads up to our PNW members on a new pest from China. These evil buggers have the potential to wreak some havoc on our crops and other agricultural products that depend on pollination.  https://news.wsu.edu/2020/04/0...-bee-killing-hornet/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...Asia-invaded-US.html | ||
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Those little beasties kill 30-40 people a year in Japan. | |||
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| Freethinker |
Swell. Another present from Asia.  ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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The world's going full Biblical. | |||
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I read about this yesterday. Holy shit. I wonder if these little bastards are ADSB compliant? | |||
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| Min-Chin-Chu-Ru... Speed with Glare |
I saw those suckers in Japan. They are no joke. | |||
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With fire, fellas, with FIRE!!! ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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Dude, murder these things... when I visit the PNW I’ll be slinging a can of starting fluid and an aim ‘n flame. This is the last thing WA state needs. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Yeah, it'd just be my luck to survive COVID and our commie governors extended shutdown only to be killed by a bunch of these monsters.  Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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These bastages carry their own version of a 10mm that can penetrate ordinary bee-suits...  | |||
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Are these only suppose to be in the PNW? I saw a big mofo that looked sorta like that, seemingly making its way behind my cedar shakes this afternoon. ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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All I've heard is that the only verified sightings are in western Wa. so far. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Brother had talked about a huge bee in upstate NY which bit the heads off loads of honey bees swarmed in the old timbers of his old garage. | |||
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That's their typical MO, yes. | |||
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Damn thing looks like a “Tracker Jacker” from the Hunger Games movies. --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
We had something that looked like that in NC when I was growing up...parents even called it a "Japanese Hornet". Huge, mean looking thing. And not a Cicada killer. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Probably a European hornet; they’ve been around for decades. 2-3X larger than a Bald Faced hornet (The black and white ones)  “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon |
Probably a European hornet; they’ve been around for decades. That makes sense, because the only VERIFIED sightings have been in western Wa. and WSDA has been all over it. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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When I was in Southeast Asia working with some SF guys we learned the Meo (Hmong) tribesmen had a dirty trick for their enemies where they would take a nest of these damn things at night and plant it in their enemy's camp. There was hell to pay when the sun came up. CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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