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Murder Hornet: They're here !
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All Yellowjacket and Hornets can kill me so I consider them all "Murderers".
Now is the time to set out traps to catch queens leaving to start their own colonies in your area and they over run your yard this summer.
Got this sucker last week.
Pics here>TalkBass Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.
Now is the time to set out traps to catch queens leaving to start their own colonies in your area and they over run your yard this summer.
Got this sucker last week.
Pics here>TalkBass Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.
Damn, I've heard Vancouver Island is a great place to live.Sensationalizing media gonna sensationalize...(by the way, they're calling 'em 'murder hornets' here in British Columbia too, the only province that, to my knowledge, has these things...specifically, Vancouver Island...)
Funny how some people assume it there'd be 9 or 10 months of winter.
Airborne Intruders With Malicious Intent
You may have to clean up 'malicious' - who are we to judge ?
I wonder if these things are any relation or the same as the hornets that eat cicadas. I have what seems to be a pretty sizable nest of these things in my back yard in Md. They are huge (about 2 inches) but they seem to pretty much ignore me when I'm cutting the grass and I go over top of where their nests are all the time. Above ground there is a little mound of dirt about six to eight inches in diameter with about a 1/2" diameter hole in it and I have seen them dragging cicadas down into them.
I have actually lived there twice, 2004 - 2006, and 2010/2011 (less than a year that second time...) - In fact,I lived in the very city (Nanaimo) where they've found these, uh, 'murder hornets'...
It IS a great place to live, if you can handle the winters there, and by 'winters' I mean pretty much non-stop rain, and clouds down to the treetops, from about the beginning of October through the end of March.
I couldn't handle it, and ended up back in the Central Interior of the province in 2011. Yeah, sometimes it gets down to minus 30 (celsius) here, and six feet of snow, but at least the sky is blue most of the time (I became a firm believer in Seasonal Affective Disorder during my last stint on Vancouver Island
...)
'Mourn It Hornets'...the 'It' being your life, since they'll apparently murder you...
I'd guess all those headless and mutilated bees probably find it less than friendly.
Suspicious beecentric agenda.
I don't know. I watched a doc about the introduction of apples as a cash crop to China and for the first several years they had giant workforces of people first collecting pollen then going back and introducing it to blossoms. They even developed a specialized brush to apply the pollen. They eventually built up a big enough population of bees to do the job
Van Williams and Bruce Lee were EEEXXXCCCCCCEEELLLLENT! I really liked that series.
Unfortunately those nasty hornets are showing up in more than one place in Washington and Canada. I understand that one Canadian colony was successfully eradicated. I sure hope they can find the others and nuke them 'till they glow.
Perhaps we should call them "Inter-species socially challenged and behaviorally undesirable vespa mandarinia"?
The acronym would be ISSCBUVM. Pronounced "isk-BOO-vum"
Unfortunately those nasty hornets are showing up in more than one place in Washington and Canada. I understand that one Canadian colony was successfully eradicated. I sure hope they can find the others and nuke them 'till they glow.
Perhaps we should call them "Inter-species socially challenged and behaviorally undesirable vespa mandarinia"?
The acronym would be ISSCBUVM. Pronounced "isk-BOO-vum"
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If a murder hornet got into a fight with a killer bee, which one would win? Would the murder hornet try to behead the killer bee? Or would the killer bee sting the bejabbers out of the murder hornet? I for one would like to know.
In a one on one, the bee would lose pretty fast. Killer bees are "killer" because they aggressively swarm a target, inflicting hundreds of stings.
But even a swarm might not be effective against the hornet: their stings can't peirce the hornet's "armor".
B.
