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Murder Hornets
Posted: May 3 20, 2:25 pm
by stlouie_lipp
(CNN)Just when you thought 2020 could not get any worse. Now we have giant hornets with freakish eyes and a venomous sting to add to this year's list of worries.
For the first time, Asian giant hornets have been spotted in the United States, specifically in Washington state, scientists say. Beekeepers have reported piles of dead bees with their heads ripped off, an alarming sight in a country with a rapidly declining bee population.
At more than two inches long, they're the world's largest hornets with a sting that can kill humans if stung multiple times, according to experts at the Washington State University. Researchers have nicknamed them "murder hornets."
"They're like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face," Susan Cobey, a bee breeder at the Washington State University's department of entomology, said recently.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/03/us/washi ... index.html
30 Japanese Giant Hornets kill 30,000 Honey Bees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 4 20, 7:18 am
by heyzeus
We need murder apes to kill the murder hornets.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 4 20, 8:35 am
by Leroy
I long for the good old days when vultures peeing on our windows was our biggest problem.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 4 20, 9:23 am
by Radbird
I hope they’re working on a vaccine.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 5 20, 8:17 am
by heyzeus
In Japan, honeybees developed a defense mechanism when the murder hornet enters their hive. The bees swarm the hornet and start vibrating their wings really fast, which generates lots of heat and C02, and it literally bakes the murderhornet to death.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 7 20, 6:41 pm
by go birds
Release the praying mantii.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 7 20, 7:07 pm
by stlouie_lipp
go birds wrote: ↑May 7 20, 6:41 pm
Release the praying mantii.
[expletive]' nature man, [expletive]'s gnarly.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 7 20, 7:27 pm
by Smith Corks One
Totally off topic, but of all the nonsensical, annoying little sayings that catch on and spread around the Internet ("What the actual [expletive]?" is another one that comes to mind), I think the one I despise the most is this "I was today years old" bull [expletive].
Okay, back on topic. Damn, that praying mantis [expletive] up that murder hornet.
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 8 20, 1:33 pm
by IMADreamer
I saw a comment on reddit that made me laugh "Murder Hornets, not with the right lawyer, they are Manslaughter Bees."
Re: Murder Hornets
Posted: May 9 20, 8:53 am
by thrill
stlouie_lipp wrote: ↑May 7 20, 7:07 pm
go birds wrote: ↑May 7 20, 6:41 pm
Release the praying mantii.
[expletive]' nature man, [expletive]'s gnarly.
A wise man once said, "ya best protect ya neck"