Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest:
The state Agriculture Department had spent weeks searching, trapping and using dental floss to tie tracking devices to Asian giant hornets, which can deliver painful stings to people and spit venom but are the biggest threat to honeybees that farmers depend on to pollinate crops.
The nest found in the city of Blaine near the Canadian border is about the size of a basketball and contained an estimated 100 to 200 hornets, according to scientists who announced the find Friday.
Crews wearing thick protective suits vacuumed the invasive insects from the cavity of a tree into large canisters Saturday. The suits prevent the hornets' 6-millimeter-long stingers from hurting workers, who also wore face shields because the trapped hornets can spit a painful venom into their eyes.
[...] The nest was found after the state Agriculture Department trapped some hornets this week and used dental floss to attach radio trackers to some of them.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PiMuNu on Monday October 26 2020, @11:07AM (3 children)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/giant-wasp [dndbeyond.com]
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Monday October 26 2020, @11:53AM (2 children)
https://youtu.be/z1rhvFW3Lbo?t=427 [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday October 26 2020, @12:04PM (1 child)
How many views? 1? 2? No, it's 154,000!
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday October 27 2020, @04:25AM
Its over 9000!!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by bart on Monday October 26 2020, @12:13PM (7 children)
You have to be an American, obsessed with violence, to call an animal "murder-something".
It doesn't "murder", it attacks when feeling threatened, or hungry. I've had these fly close by me with no aggression whatsoever. Impressive and somewhat scary :-)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @12:52PM
Seven-time lottery winner eliminates murder hornets with this one weird trick
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @02:15PM (2 children)
> It doesn't "murder",
Read somewhere else that these big hornets kill normal honey bees, biting their heads off. So they do "murder", just not people (unless the human has a severe allergy to venom?)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Immerman on Monday October 26 2020, @04:12PM
Indeed. In fact, I seem to recall hearing that they will sit there and wipe out an entire hive, apparently just for giggles (perhaps eliminating a competitor?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @01:57PM
They kill up to 50 people a year in Japan.
(Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Monday October 26 2020, @04:01PM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 26 2020, @05:20PM
The Murder HornetsTM are not happy. They will be writing a strongly worded letter to the editor.
(trying to decide if I should hold my breath until a copy of this letter appears as a front page article on SN.)
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @08:35PM
Seems like a First World Problem, Hornet's Lives Matter Too (HRL) ...
(Score: 5, Funny) by VLM on Monday October 26 2020, @12:14PM (3 children)
Seems like an anti-immigration story. No hornets are illegal. Did Orange Man Bad order these parental hornets to be separated from their child larvae?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 26 2020, @08:03PM (2 children)
That's fucking deranged. This, right here? THIS is the real "Trump derangement syndrome," when someone like you has to twist everyfuckingthing they touch into some sort of bitter, resentful, bile-dripping political swipe at their foes. Fuck off.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @10:07PM
Whooooosh
Hook.. Line... Sinker..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 27 2020, @03:51AM
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @12:24PM (7 children)
We have had a few ground bee (yellow jacket?) nests in the yard over the years. Rather than spray near a vegetable garden, I set up the shop vac with the end of the extension tube near the opening. Might take a few days of running the vac when the bugs are active, usually the warmest part of the day (a couple of hours at a time). I think they are killed when they hit the metal can at high speed, but I always wait several days before opening! Watching on YouTube, others have put some soapy water in the vac to make sure.
(Score: 3, Funny) by canopic jug on Monday October 26 2020, @03:10PM (2 children)
Using a shop vac sounds like a good method. Beats stepping through the roof of the nests and collecting them inside your pant leg.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @08:39PM
Speaking of first hand experience?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:59AM
r/suspiciouslyspecific
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday October 26 2020, @06:50PM (3 children)
The real fun way to deal with the ground nests is to dump molten aluminum into them. Then dig them up for some neat looking casts.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @07:01PM (2 children)
> molten aluminum
Cool...but, "pics or it didn't happen, eh?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @09:05PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aluminium+ants+nest [youtube.com]
knock yourself out.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 27 2020, @03:54AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @02:58PM
Glad that is all taken care of
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @03:51PM
Those 'Murder Hornets' are referred to as 'White-Chauvinist-Racist-Bigoted Hornets'.