Posted on 03/27/2012 4:29:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It looks like Darth Vader.
I doubt they're actually new. Probably been around for millions of years. Gotta love the human vanity and hubris of the reporting, though :-)
I am the King of WASPS.
just in time to take on all these wayward race hustlers!
It looks like the PREDATOR.
kill-em all... lest they come here
RE “all of the wasps caught so far have been dead”.
Piss poor writing from a so-called Nat. Geog. professional.
You can’t “catch” something that is already dead. You can “find” it, “discover its’ body”, etc. but you only can “catch” something that is alive or in motion (i.e. a baseball).
Another example of what is wrong with our educational system.
Yes it does. (Had to look didn’t know what the Predator was)
They have good coffee there. At least, the Indonesian Sulawesi beans at Fairway are awesome. For all I know, they really grow them in Tijuana.
Arrggh!!!!
This is not pisspoor writing, this is pisspoor thinking taught pisspoorly by a pisspoor educational system and supported all through adulthood by pisspoor peers of equally pisspoor rearing/education.
You should have included a link to the article, along with the pic of the wasp’s head.
How are these any different than tarantula wasps that are huge, paralize their victim and drag them into their den?
"Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach."
Collecting a useful metal. Creating new jobs. Killing wasps. What's not to like? :)
We all typos and spell check can result in humorous outcomes, but trust me when I tell you that J school grads have no real ‘education’ to speak of. In my time at newspapers I spent more time rewriting articles from so called journalists than any other task.
And I’m just a regular schmuck, not an English professor..
These people could NOT string a coherent paragraph together. NO BS, I’d come home and correct a far better written essay from my then 12 YO daughter than the verbage put to type by ‘paid professionals’ at work.
Looks like you have never heard of zombies.
Norm, I knew a brilliant NatGeo staff writer/photographer many years ago. He told me he and many other of the magazine's old-timers were being squeezed out by all the new hires from "the Missouri School of Journalism." That's when the magazine made a sharp Left turn and became the "environmentally-correct" (if sometimes illiterate) propaganda organ it is today. To misquote Marshall McCluhan, at NatGeo these days, the message is the medium.
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