Posted on 05/02/2020 3:55:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
“All your beez are belong to us...”
Most of these 4000 species of native bees are solitary bees. A swarm of these has one bee.
Fire ants are wreaking havoc in Texas. In rural areas, they’re killing baby deer and horned toads.
Tomorrow’s headline:
Trump’s Failure to Stop Murderous Wasps Threatens Food Supply
My dad just put the hose to a vac near the entrance of the (ground) nest and let it run for a few hours, then sprayed insecticide into it. And then (as dad would do with green beans he grew) he counted them. 79 bees.
I wonder if Schiff for brains plans on impeachment hearings over it?
Giant Asian Hornet found near Blaine. Just great.
I work out in the woods quite a bit in Washington state. Stepping on or near a ground wasp nest usually results in a few stings which don’t affect me much. Effects vary among my helpers. I flag the area off and usually if you avoid it by 4 feet you can work the rest of the day without bothering them (and they won’t bother you.)
Last year down in Oregon we came across a huge nest with all sorts of different holes. They chased us for 200 feet before we lost them. Previous ones in Washington state you run 20 feet and that is good enough. We had to put off work in that area after we first stepped in it until the next day. And then had to stay 20+ feet away from it.
The entire area was a tree farm, and the wasps were all over the trees collecting pollen or whatever. You could brush up against them and they paid no attention to you. But get near their nest....
After reading this article, I hope I never stumble into one of these Asian Hornet nests out in the woods. Hornet implies a paper nest up in a tree - so hopefully that is the case. We don’t end up bothering them.
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