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Deadly Predator Hornets Make Their Way to Europe
Animal Planet ^ | 5/27/2016 | Animal Planet

Posted on 05/28/2016 8:13:41 AM PDT by Smittie

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Reference; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: animalplanet; europe; hornets; iinvasion; killers; monsterweek; wildlife
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1 posted on 05/28/2016 8:13:41 AM PDT by Smittie
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To: Smittie

Jihadi hornets!

Quick, grab the Raid!


2 posted on 05/28/2016 8:14:59 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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I saw that show. Really nasty. There was a previous show with video of hornets attacking a bee nest; utter destruction.


3 posted on 05/28/2016 8:16:19 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Smittie

These make Killer Bees look like Ladybugs! This is scary stuff.


4 posted on 05/28/2016 8:16:43 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: headsonpikes
Jihadi hornets!

Yes, the scream "Halal Snackbar" right before they sting you.

5 posted on 05/28/2016 8:17:12 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: C19fan

Bees can adapt. For example, the bees in Japan have adapted with a defensive technique where they surround the predatory Japanese hornets and toast them to death. Of course it’s a kamikaze maneuver but it’s effective to defend the hive. The European honeybees better learn fast!


6 posted on 05/28/2016 8:20:25 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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It's not just the bees that need to worry but people too, since they can kill us too, and we lose the bees pollinating our food plants.
7 posted on 05/28/2016 8:27:03 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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Totally. It’d be an economic and ecological disaster to have the bees eradicated. As an invasive species, the hornets should be aggressively hunted down and destroyed.


8 posted on 05/28/2016 8:35:07 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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9 posted on 05/28/2016 9:05:36 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: Smittie

Its Monster Week on Animal Planet.


10 posted on 05/28/2016 9:13:01 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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As if Europe has enough problems, I can handle bees but Hornets are nasty and sting but then again my Alma Mater High School in Chesapeake, Va mascot is a hornet so I cannot hate them.


11 posted on 05/28/2016 9:17:02 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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The Japanese Hornets we have here are huge and I hear that their sting is like getting hit with a nail gun, but they’re fortunately not known to be all that aggressive toward humans. Wasps, they eat them.


12 posted on 05/28/2016 9:23:16 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Two years ago I had two nests under the eaves of my house just above the back deck: one was hornets and the other was of bees. Neither bothered me except that the “guard” bees at the nest entrance always came forward to check me out. They seemed to say, “Oh, it’s you.” Then went back to their posts.

Occasionally I would witness one of the bees going over to the hornet’s nest (about 12’ away) and literally being thrown off the “property”. Neither side was hostile, and it was amusing to see.


13 posted on 05/28/2016 9:24:26 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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They might compete with the two domestic hornets which are bigger but pergaps not as organized.

The domestic ones, I have seen them attack ciccadas twice their own size and hover over wasp nests, decapitating one by one each wasp flying away from the nest, resulting in a pile of cadavers below the wasp nest. They are the smartest insect I know.


14 posted on 05/28/2016 9:38:53 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Indeed, bees do not compete for meat with hornets and they probably help keep intruders out. I have seen hornets attack wasp nests.


15 posted on 05/28/2016 9:41:20 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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We live in the middle of a forest. These hornets seem to eat wood, as I have witnessed them stripping wood off of fences. Or perhaps I have the two species, hornets and wasps, confused.


16 posted on 05/28/2016 9:50:21 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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They’re not eating the wood, they’re chewing it up to make their nests. The wood’s still damaged just the same, but they don’t eat it.


17 posted on 05/28/2016 9:51:45 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Thanks for the info.


18 posted on 05/28/2016 9:52:43 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: Smittie

One of those things somehow got into my basement a few years ago. Terrifying.


19 posted on 05/28/2016 9:59:58 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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The sting of an Asian hornet is powerful enough to kill a full-grown man.

One Japanese male victim survived an attack only by injecting himself with an adrenaline antidote.

I wouldn’t want to be near one.


20 posted on 05/28/2016 10:25:28 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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