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State entomologists find Asian giant hornet nest, plan to eradicate it next week
Komonews ^ | Thursday, August 19th 2021 | KOMO News Staff

Posted on 08/20/2021 8:56:29 AM PDT by patriot torch

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To: dsrtsage

ha!


21 posted on 08/20/2021 9:17:32 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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To: logi_cal869

I find it amazing that this can be done. I saw the video, but muted. I’m guessing they find a way to anesthetize the
‘Murders’, knocking them out long enough to wrap some transistor device around their evil little legs.
Apparently, the other hornets in that hive are not repelled by scent of a human. They don’t attack the now ‘wired’ hornet.


22 posted on 08/20/2021 9:26:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: patriot torch

Isn’t it refreshing to see scientists doing their work and expressing their opinions free of Big Government political agendas and Big Pharma profiteering?

These scientists are very likely telling the truth, because they have absolutely no reason to lie. No bureaucrat is threatening to withdraw grant money or tenure. No Big Pharma corporation is threatening to withdraw sponsorship.

I wonder what the world would look like right now if doctors and scientists had been able to handle Covid19 as they saw fit.


23 posted on 08/20/2021 9:27:23 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Drew68

next week is a long time in a bugs life... go get it NOW!!


24 posted on 08/20/2021 9:48:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: DannyTN

Killer Hornet released for lack of evidence.
Accomplices fitted with tracking bracelets.
Queen hornet files protest over #hornet lives matter
repression.


25 posted on 08/20/2021 9:53:41 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: logi_cal869

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5916841/Scientists-counter-Asian-hornet-threat-using-insect-size-radio-trackers.html


26 posted on 08/20/2021 9:56:37 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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27 posted on 08/20/2021 10:02:29 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: patriot torch

OK. So why does it take a week for a government agent to spray a hornet’s nest?


28 posted on 08/20/2021 10:13:57 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: logi_cal869
Unbelievably, no one has yet commented about the “tracking devices” affixed to a insect…

I find it incredible.....I wish they were affordable and available to the public. I'd buy a couple and wire up a couple of bald faced hornets and yellow jackets that are inhabiting my jam filled oriole feeder and track them back to their nests then kill them all!

29 posted on 08/20/2021 10:20:59 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Why so long? They had to make and apply little masks for/to the hornies so the hornies would not get COVID!


30 posted on 08/20/2021 10:24:10 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: mewzilla

—”Perkins wasn’t stupid.”

OK?
But clearly marching to a different drummer...

Inside a shark cage WITH a shark!!!

Wild Kingdom | Dangerous Moments in the Wild Kingdom
https://youtu.be/zGMf4QQdI9c


31 posted on 08/20/2021 10:40:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

“OK. So why does it take a week for a government agent to spray a hornet’s nest?”

They have to form a committee to nominate people to serve on the Murder Hornet Nest Eradication Committee.


32 posted on 08/20/2021 10:43:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Drew68

Napalm would be better.


33 posted on 08/20/2021 11:08:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

They need to get a SWAT team together.

They are MURDER HORNETS after all.


34 posted on 08/20/2021 11:10:53 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

They don’t “spray” it. They go in as a team with special suits that protect against that 1/4” stinger (”like a hot iron nail driven into your leg” according to someone that has experienced it) that Asian giant hornets have, and they vacuum up all of the hornets that leave the nest to defend it, then they cut the nest out of the tree (continuing to vacuum up hornets) and take it back to a lab to dissect and study. It’s a pretty involved process.


35 posted on 08/20/2021 11:32:32 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: patriot torch

The leader of the hornet’s nest was heard to say “It was Barzini all along”


36 posted on 08/20/2021 11:37:01 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Drew68

“ What’s wrong with today?”
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They’re government employees and are taking the standard “we’re taking our sweet time” government approach.


37 posted on 08/20/2021 11:40:14 AM PDT by House Atreides
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38 posted on 08/20/2021 11:47:01 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Handling that wasp with no Gloves?


39 posted on 08/20/2021 11:54:46 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: P.O.E.

Nah, turned out to be Fredo. Lol


40 posted on 08/20/2021 1:24:35 PM PDT by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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