[BunnySlippers]

[Note: of special interest: the photographs are site are very interesting.

[Ken Regis]

Washington State, huh?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I really wanted to be there to see them getting sucked into the containment system.

[JCL3]

Are those the suits we have to wear during the Hornet Lockdown?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Dang! They DO look like GhostBusters StayPuft...

[Professional]

I thought the death penalty in wa state was “unconstitutional”??

[SkyDancer]

Where are the protestors?

[a real Sheila]

Um, wouldn’t a flame thrower have been just as effective?

[a real Sheila]

Plot twist- the venom from murder hornets kills covid.

[Songcraft]

"Murder hornets from the first nest discovered on US soil have been successfully sucked out of a tree cavity..."

Imagine the follow-up interview...

       Interviewer:   "What do you do for a living?"

       Interviewee:   "I'm a professional bee sucker."

[dainbramaged]

From a 2013 article:
Other than their sheer massive size, what’s most fascinating and horrifying about the giant hornets is their sting. Not only is their stinger quite large (about 6 mm, or 0.25 inches in length), but the venom they inject with it contains several chemicals that work in different ways to damage the recipient. Some of these chemicals basically dissolve tissue. For example, one is a phospholipase, which means that it breaks down and destroys cell membranes. And without a cell membrane, a cell cannot do much – it falls apart and dissolves. (Another chemical in the venom, specifically called mastoparan, works by stimulating phospholipase activity, so it pretty much does the same thing but indirectly.) So when someone is stung by an Asian giant hornet, the excruciatingly painful sting leaves behind a small hole of dissolved skin.

[Rio]

Great photos. I was quite curious to see a hornet with affixed tracking device. They have the photo. Reminds me of a scene from Red Dawn.

[a real Sheila]

“Workers also wore face shields to prevent the trapped hornets spitting a painful venom into their eyes.”

YIKES!

[ETCM]

I read the sting hurts pretty bad, but unless you are allergic or stung many times (like guys destroying a nest), not deadly. Here in SoCal we have “tarantula hawks” that are supposed to have the 2nd or 3rd most painful sting of any insect. Fortunately, they prefer to sting tarantulas rather than humans, so I leave them alone. If I had to destroy a hornet nest, I would definitely suit up like these guys.

[xp38]

Was Kamala used as a consultant?

[CapnJack]

They got all of them ... but the Queen!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Great comment at the DM site:

“Joe doesn’t want to separate them from their parents. So they are going to put them in host nests. Then he going to give them amnesty and set them free on us.”

[Rebelbase]

“vacuumed out of the tree into a long plastic tube before being killed,”

MURDER HORNETS MURDERED.

[slouper]

I hate Washington Murder Hornets, state and DC.

[mewzilla]

Scary update....

aaaaa

😱😱😱😱😱

[mewzilla]

Scary update....

Washington state captures two murder hornet queens alive, days after destroying first known nest

2020 sucks.