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Giant Asian Hornets?
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Lmao, well meme'd sir
****ing Washington?! Why the **** do we keep trying to kick off extinction events? Can we deploy our native Turantula Hawks to fight these? I found one in the field behind my apartments running around a pile of brush and I guess you are supposed to report it if they are found anywhere outside of the southwest. But the Asian Hornets are tanks though. Two of them can go in and wipe out an entire Japanese bee hive by decapitating each bee, but those bees have also figured out how to kill them without actually fighting them. They cook them to death at the bottom of their hives by shaking their abdomens which I'm sure someone has mentioned already.
Edit: it hasn't been mentioned so here are the details. The honey bees stage and then spring on the Hornets all at once and they drag them to depths of their hives where they all start to shake and collectively raise their temperatures. They raise the temperature to 117 degrees because the hornets die at 116 degrees while get this... the bees will die at 118!
Edit: it hasn't been mentioned so here are the details. The honey bees stage and then spring on the Hornets all at once and they drag them to depths of their hives where they all start to shake and collectively raise their temperatures. They raise the temperature to 117 degrees because the hornets die at 116 degrees while get this... the bees will die at 118!
Here's the video showing it.
Thanks guys. Pretty sure this thread ruined my day by 10AM.
PS- My wife thanks you for doing her job.
PS- My wife thanks you for doing her job.
I spent over 8 years on Okinawa and I worked out in the jungle (Kadena MSA). Never saw a single giant hornet, never heard of a single death from one. Never even knew they were found on the island. You'd think if it was that serious we would have been briefed on them.
U.M.
I never saw them there either and they never even warned us about them which they give everyone a brief on the dangerous wildlife before you head out into the jungles. Had multiple briefs from different commands actually and these were never mentioned.
I bet you got the brief though about the Habu which is almost as rare a sighting on the island.
Those ****ing big ass banana spiders ain't hard to find over there though.... I did JWTC in 09 there.... **** those things
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I think I remember hearing about that but I never ran across any as they rarely let us out to explore. Did get to drink the Cobra Whiskey though in Thailand and drank the blood. Closest venomous snake contact I had there was the Cobras and then I had a Coral Snake disappear into the bushes right by my foot. I looked down and saw the tail with the markings sticking out about a foot away from me and then it disappeared quickly.
The stingers look to be about the length of a fingernail! That alone is probably the size if a normal bee.
I'm not a spider person, but damn it all to hell if those Asian ****ers invade New England.
I'm not a spider person, but damn it all to hell if those Asian ****ers invade New England.
Hated running into their webs which the tinsel strength on them was mindblowing to be able to feel the tension of it through your kit, but luckily they were never directly in the center of them so you never got them on you. This was the largest one we found.
Nope!!! All sorts of nope!! No, no no, hell no and **** no lol
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Or twisting a damn ankle on the giant land snails all over Oki. I did 4 years in Okinawa and never heard of these hornets. It was unreal to drive down 58 and be able to spot individual spiders 50 yard off the road. They’re HUGE.
Nah, I had a friend who took a hawk to the shoulder and stayed on his bike. I only missed a turkey once because I ducked. Before that day, I didn't know turkeys actually flew. That might have taken me off my bike. Lol
Family member is an Entomologist and has written multiple books on pests. His short answer is:
"It's bad news for honey bees for sure.
Eradication is worth a try but it's tough to achieve and I don't know whether it's worked for this pest anywhere.
I've no reason to think it's here deliberately. Dozens of introduced creatures per year is typical in U S. An inadvertent hitch hiking hazard of international trade and travel. Been happening for centuries. Just more often now."
"It's bad news for honey bees for sure.
Eradication is worth a try but it's tough to achieve and I don't know whether it's worked for this pest anywhere.
I've no reason to think it's here deliberately. Dozens of introduced creatures per year is typical in U S. An inadvertent hitch hiking hazard of international trade and travel. Been happening for centuries. Just more often now."
Our area has an inland port. Shipping containers are railed in, then off loaded for Trucking. The exterminator I have spoke with was convinced that that was the source. I have seen two different hives and 4 different experiences in the past. Both hives were in moist locations with rotting wood, relatively elevated off the ground. I have seen them group feed off maple tree sap and attack a below ground hornet's nest. I can now recognize there flight patterns ( slower then a humming bird ) they will also tag team a cicada and leave everything but the wings still attached to upper exoskeleton. They can eat one in about an hour. I saved one in a ziploc, but can't remember were I put it.
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