Murder Hornets (Viewer Discretion Advised): because the bees don't have enough problems and 2020 isn't through with us yet.

[Myew]

 

So, as an entomophobe, I'm thinking I might need to add a couple of Bug-A-Salts to my Go Bag... 🙄 Added perk of being more popular with the ladies. 😼
https://www.amazon.com/BUG-A-SALT-3-0-Black-Fly-Edition/dp/B07RJZNY5C/

[Barbllm]

Are we at level 5 of Jumanji yet?

 

 

[Brother_Bliss]

I stopped at 19 seconds into that last 2nd video. I couldn't bare to watch.

 

Stinging insects, particular those that are yellow and black, are a genuine phobia of mine.

[Pjdriver]

This year 2020, is certainly going to be a memorable one....

and we still have most of it left.  

Edited May 6, 2020 by Pjdriver

[Omoyeme]

8 hours ago, Dismal_Bliss said:

Stinging insects, particular those that are yellow and black, are a genuine phobia of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by Omoyeme

[Pjdriver]

Now,  we’ll have to walk around with a mask, gloves, and hornet spray. 

Whats next?  The GT hopefully. 

[Pjdriver]

On 5/5/2020 at 12:23 AM, Myew said:

So, as an entomophobe, I'm thinking I might need to add a couple of Bug-A-Salts to my Go Bag... 🙄 Added perk of being more popular with the ladies. 😼
https://www.amazon.com/BUG-A-SALT-3-0-Black-Fly-Edition/dp/B07RJZNY5C/
 

Hmmmm, now I wonder.....did it evolve or was it designed? 

[normadenardo]

28 minutes ago, Pjdriver said:

Hmmmm, now I wonder.....did it evolve or was it designed? 

Maybe it mutated. 

[Myew]

17 hours ago, Dismal_Bliss said:

I stopped at 19 seconds into that last 2nd video. I couldn't bare to watch.

 

Stinging insects, particular those that are yellow and black, are a genuine phobia of mine.

Watching Coyote Peterson has been my exposure therapy. 🙀 Though I still painfully flinch if anything so much as a fly buzzes near me.
 

42 minutes ago, Pjdriver said:

Hmmmm, now I wonder.....did it evolve or was it designed? 

It seems to have some counterbalance in it's natural ecosystem.

https://newstalkkzrg.com/2020/05/05/asian-honeybees-develop-novel-way-to-destroy-killerhornets/

"Dr. Mary “Katie” Kilmer is an assistant professor of biology and environmental health at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. She’s also the keeper for ten beehives located on a natural prairie area on the MSSU campus.

She says in Asia, bees have adapted to the presence of the seemingly invincible killer hornets – and have even developed a way to get rid of them.

“When a hornet comes up to the honeybee hives, the honeybees will actually all cluster around the hornet,” Kilmer states.

“They’ll physically vibrate their thorax – like we do when we shiver – so it gives off heat and they can cook the hornet alive in a ball of bees.They can get it hot enough so the bees are flying but the hornet dies.”

However, Dr. Kilmer says bees in the United States have not encountered the Asian hornet. They have not developed a similar defensive capacity."

Now I know what I must do.

Spoiler

 

[Pjdriver]

49 minutes ago, normaclutter said:

Maybe it mutated. 

So you think they evolved. 
Maybe a bug from the spirit realm cross bred with a hornet and these are Nephlim hornets.  
 

I have been stung in the neck by a regular hornet. That was no picnic either. I can’t imagine this Japanese giant hornet on my neck. They’re known for decapitating their prey.  

Edited May 6, 2020 by Pjdriver

[EccentricM]

On 5/6/2020 at 1:41 PM, Pjdriver said:

Now,  we’ll have to walk around with a mask, gloves, and hornet spray. 

Whats next?  The GT hopefully. 

Frogs, rivers turning to blood, locusts, darkness.. ummm, what else...

[Jeanie]

3 hours ago, EccentricM said:

Frogs, rivers turning to blood, locusts, darkness.. ummm, what else...

Wasn't there a country experiencing large amounts of locusts already?

[Wren]

5 hours ago, EccentricM said:

Frogs, rivers turning to blood, locusts, darkness.. ummm, what else...

Gnats. We've being suffering a plague of fungus gnats around Sydney, Australia. On a cleaning group on Facebook people from all over are asking what these new pests are. First time I've noticed them.

[Myew]

https://skillet.lifehacker.com/how-to-cook-a-murder-hornet-1843298411
When life gives you venomous torture machines... make popcorn?

[Barbllm]

On 5/8/2020 at 4:44 PM, EccentricM said:

Frogs, rivers turning to blood, locusts, darkness.. ummm, what else...

Flies, death of cattle, and boils.

 

[daydream]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/24/got-em-washington-authorities-nab-murder-hornet-nest

The nest of Asian giant hornets, an invasive species, was the first ever found in the United States.

 

Hunt for the nest

In September, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) said it hoped to find and eradicate the hornets’ nest by mid-month before new queens emerged and mated, which would help it “prevent the spread” of the invasive species.

The hornets are predatory to honey bees and other important insects.

 

The department said it had captured four live hornets in two separate traps on October 21 and October 22 and entomologists were able to attach radio trackers to three of those hornets. One of them led them to the nest.

 

 

An entomologist for the Washington State Department of Agriculture displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest

Edited October 25, 2020 by Mclove

[Nelly Kim]

Sooooo Biiiiiig

[Tia]

Awesome!!!

[Myew]

Nice. The guy in the suit looks like Jamie Hyneman, maybe that's one of his many odd jobs since Mythbusters ended? 

[Lee49]

On 5/6/2020 at 7:41 AM, Pjdriver said:

Now,  we’ll have to walk around with a mask, gloves, and hornet spray. 

Whats next?  The GT hopefully. 

hornet spray - can be use in place of mace also! ouch! so I'm told, never had to try it out! 😖

[Allabord4Jah]

No one mentioned GODZILLA!  He mutated from Japan early 60's movies