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Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 03 2020, @03:48PM   
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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

Tracking the 'Murder Hornet': A Deadly Pest Has Reached North America:

In his decades of beekeeping, Ted McFall had never seen anything like it.

As he pulled his truck up to check on a group of hives near Custer, Wash., in November, he could spot from the window a mess of bee carcasses on the ground. As he looked closer, he saw a pile of dead members of the colony in front of a hive and more carnage inside — thousands and thousands of bees with their heads torn from their bodies and no sign of a culprit.

"I couldn't wrap my head around what could have done that," Mr. McFall said.

Only later did he come to suspect that the killer was what some researchers simply call the "murder hornet."

With queens that can grow to two inches long, Asian giant hornets can use mandibles shaped like spiked shark fins to wipe out a honeybee hive in a matter of hours, decapitating the bees and flying away with the thoraxes to feed their young. For larger targets, the hornet's potent venom and stinger — long enough to puncture a beekeeping suit — make for an excruciating combination that victims have likened to hot metal driving into their skin.

In Japan, the hornets kill up to 50 people a year. Now, for the first time, they have arrived in the United States.

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• Hornets are nasty, but not as nasty as vaginas Hornets are nasty, but not as nasty as vaginas (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @07:48PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @07:48PM (#989878)

  They are nasty they smell like all kinda of wrong.

  How women can carry these purses of vile stench around every day and feel that they're precious is sickening.

  Just go and smell one today. It doesn't count if you have sex, you need to smell it up close and taste it.

  Vaginas - never again!

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• Re:Hornets are nasty, but not as nasty as vaginas (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:22PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:22PM (#989888) Homepage

  [ That episode of The Simpsons where the kids acidentally turn to the porn channel on TV ]

  Milhouse: "Eww, gross!"
  Martin: "...Yet strangely compelling!"

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• This will not stand This will not stand (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:25PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:25PM (#989889)

  That's no reason to fuck a girl in the ass. Do you know what happens? Do you know what happens when you fuck a girl in the ass?!

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  • Re:This will not stand Re:This will not stand (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @11:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @11:35PM (#989971)

    Yup, the kid grows up to be a lawyer.

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    • Re:This will not stand (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @04:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @04:40AM (#990061)

      Rectal demons. [missionamerica.com]

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