[nickcarraway]

[madison10]

It looks like Darth Vader.

[Joe 6-pack]

"A new species of giant, venomous wasp has been found..."

I doubt they're actually new. Probably been around for millions of years. Gotta love the human vanity and hubris of the reporting, though :-)

[nerdwithagun]

Read this earlyer off Yahoo, very interesting. I really hope they ask the locals if they mind killing it off or preserving it. I can see enviro wackos wanting to protect it at all costs and on the flip side, there might be some reason to keep them alive to counter crop eaters. Hoping for level heads, clear minds, and LOTS of bullshit repellent

[GSWarrior]

I am the King of WASPS.

[the invisib1e hand]

king of WASPs

just in time to take on all these wayward race hustlers!

[Chode]

kill-em all... lest they come here

[dead]

A new species of giant, venomous wasp has been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

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.

[KoRn]

Arrggh!!!!

[KoRn]

You should have included a link to the article, along with the pic of the wasp’s head.

[WestwardHo]

How are these any different than tarantula wasps that are huge, paralize their victim and drag them into their den?

[Mr. Jeeves]

"The place where we collected wasps is slated to be an open-pit nickel mine," Kimsey said.

"Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach."

Collecting a useful metal. Creating new jobs. Killing wasps. What's not to like? :)

[rmlew]

I still raise you the Japanese giant hornet Vespa mandarinia japonica. They kill about 40 people a year in Japan. Pure nightmare fuel.

[This I Wonder32460]

I wish I never read this and I put my hands over my eyes to scroll down and post so I saw very little. This is not a good thing to read about or an image to see before bedtime.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"The place where we collected wasps is slated to be an open-pit nickel mine," Kimsey said. "Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach...[she said as she spoke on her cell phone while she worked on her lap top while flying home in the jet aircraft]. No sense of irony with that one I'll bet.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Larrine wasps typically dig nests for their eggs and larvae in open, sandy areas. The adults grow no longer than an inch (2.5 centimeters)—making the newly discovered Megalara garuda the "king of wasps," according to the study authors.

Great, take a species known to reproduce by paralyzing other animals and then laying it's eggs in them so it's larvae can eat them alive and then we find out there's a previously undiscovered jumbo version. Ugh.

[going hot]

That thing is so big it looks like it has bugs splattered on it’s forehead!

[CurlyDave]

"The place where we collected wasps is slated to be an open-pit nickel mine," Kimsey said.

"Just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach."

If just one nickel mine can wipe out a significant fraction of the total population of these wasps, then they are not very significant to the ecology of the region and will not be missed.

[SueRae]

oh goody...bees are my one phobia. Wasps and hornets. another good reason not to visit Indonesia (not that visiting Islamic countries is on my list anyway)

[ZULU]

“venomous wasp”

Uhh, all wasps are venomous.