[Olog-hai]

How reliable are entomologists from California universities when it comes to this kind of stuff . . . ?

[Grizzled Bear]

New Wasp Species Discovered in Indonesia Shocks Scientists

That's great. As if we really needed a electricity spewing "Taser-Wasp."

[Texas Fossil]

The team of scientists working from the funding have discovered a bat, two frogs, two lizards, two fish, a land crab and many insects since 2008.

Not much of a find for 12 people and 3 years. Wonder if Dawn detergent and water will kill the wasp like it does with the common ones?

[RetiredTexasVet]

More very expensive trivia paid for with tax dollars. In summary, who cares?

[null and void]

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Yes of course. Shocked.

Professionally shocked liberal university mooches promoting for more funding.

I for one, am not shocked. I’d be shocked if they got a real job.

[MarkL]

“Its jaws are so large that they wrap up either side of the head when closed. When the jaws are open they are actually longer than the male’s front legs. I don’t know how it can walk,” Kimsey said in a news release.

"I'm a dork-wasp!"

Mark

[GeronL]

bump

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I wonder how long it will be before we have them here in America.

[SunkenCiv]

This is a stinging rebuke to those who thought knowledge of wasps was complete.

[Condor51]

We were told that Sulawesi has a dry and rainy season.
But the only difference we could see between the dry and rainy season is that during the dry season, it rains only in the afternoon.”

Lady, you crack me up.

($4 Million spent, and all we get is a Big Scary Wasp and a lousy joke. I want a refund)

[ZinGirl]

new WASP? does he look like this

[1010RD]

“There’s talk of forming a biosphere reserve to preserve this,” she said. “There are so many rare and endangered species on Sulawesi that the world may never see.”

AKA Let’s keep Sulawesi backwards forever. They aren’t luck like Americans and Europeans to have developed their countries before the onset of Environmentalism, emphasis mental.

[Oztrich Boy]

“Stings” not “shocks”

[bert]

Hmmm..... And all this time I thought a Garuda Bird was a Thai symbol

[Battle Axe]

I studied entomology under Dr. Bohart and graduated with a BS in 1968. He was a kindly man with a sweet wife. They had twins boys born dead and never had any other children.

He was a wasp guy then and would make us draw the genitalia of some of his favorite yellow jackets hoping one of us could draw it good enough so he could use it in a paper. That is how you tell wasps apart....by their genitalia. If it looks like it fits then this is a male and that is a female.

It was a crazy time from 1964-1968. There was a rush of people across the quad and they were running to see Bobby Kennedy as he rode in the back of a convertible around the place. About a week later, I was identifying bugs in the lab when Bobby Kennedy was shot, I was walking across the student union when a girl rushed up to me and said that Martin Luther King had been killed.

There is hope. Even though I graduated from UCD, I am a devout member of the TEA PARTY. How’d I manage that?