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Researchers Try to Head Off “Murder Hornets” Coming into US
The Scientist ^
| May 4, 2020
| Shawna Williams
Posted on 05/05/2020 8:43:51 AM PDT by skimbell
...“This is our window to keep it from establishing,” Chris Looney, an entomologist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture, tells the Times. “If we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communists; wa; washington
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To: Buckeye McFrog
More special presents...
From China!
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:55:10 AM PDT
by
golux
(In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
To: Yogafist
They’re just bees, bro. There's our winner!
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:55:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Mr. Rabbit
My understanding is the problem is what they will do to the bee population.
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:56:28 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: skimbell
They will never be able to stop them. It’s a pipe dream.
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:57:43 AM PDT
by
The Toad
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:58:38 AM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: skimbell
I am more worried about the Suicide Squirrels. They run into the road right in front of your car trying to achieve their evil intent. Then you swerve trying to miss them and...POW right into a bridge embankment! The suicide is not theirs.
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:58:52 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Yogafist
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posted on
05/05/2020 8:59:14 AM PDT
by
Bratch
(“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
I have a friend that is so freaked out by bumble bee’s he shoots the with .22 snake shot LOL
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:01:02 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
This is satire, right? Alas, I fear not.It isn't satire but there has been extremely poor reporting on this. The problem with these hornets isn't that they will kill a substantial number of humans. The destroy bees nests to get the wax and feed their own colonies. 10 or 20 hornets can kill off an entire bee colony in a few hours.
I saw on Fox where they claimed that bees are fighting back by generating heat. That was idiotic. When a hornet finds a bees nest it marks it then goes back for help. Some species of Bees have learned to lure that scout into the nest then smother it with bodies so it can't back out and can't kill them. They keep it smothered until their body heat kills it. Most colonies in America will not have this defense.
Our bee colonies have been distressed for several years now. These hornets just make things worse.
To: skimbell
DDT will become our new best friend until we find a predator for those Murder-Hornets.
Hmmm....Don’t Pythons and Gators like freshly caught Hornets?
Maybe Florida can sell some to us in California.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Our bee colonies have been distressed for several years now. These hornets just make things worse. Obviously the solution is for the bees to lock down for a year, cease producing honey and stop pollinating plants. Only then will they be safe.
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:06:46 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: MtnClimber
Ahhhh.... reminds me of the story about The Squirrel Grenade.
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:07:17 AM PDT
by
A Voice
(As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
To: skimbell
Fox News just reported that Japanese honeybees have learned how to kill murder hornets by surrounding them and "cooking" them to death.
The Beepire fights back!
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:07:36 AM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: skimbell
Another thing to blame Trump for! Possible inclusion in the Articles of Impeachment Part II?
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:07:46 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(I fear my government more than the bug. I hate that which makes me afraid. And the media.)
To: Yogafist
“They’re just bees, bro.”
I was stalked. by one in Asia. Not ‘just a beer!
To: skimbell
To: Buckeye McFrog
Bring on the gene-silencing pesticides.
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:09:43 AM PDT
by
Spirochete
(GOP: Gutless Old Party)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Japanese honey bees have evolved the ability to "ball" around giant hornets and warm them up to about 117 degrees F, which kills the hornet. (Yes, you won't have to worry about these critters in the Southwest.)
Honeybees in the US are almost entirely descended from Italian honeybees, and they will be a smorgasbord for the hornets.
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posted on
05/05/2020 9:10:41 AM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: skimbell
I, for one, can't wait for the movie....
To: Bratch
That looks like a “B” movie.
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