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| Murder Hornets meet their match: Shocking moment [ FAST ] praying mantis attacks and eats the head of the giant flying insect which has arrived in the US |
| 2020-05-08 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bug experts dismiss worry about US ‘murder hornets’ as hype [IsraelTimes] The Asian giant hornets found in Washington state that grabbed headlines this week aren’t big killers of humans, although it does happen on rare occasions. But the world’s largest hornets do decapitate entire hives of honeybees, and that crucial food pollinator is already in big trouble. Numerous bug experts told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that what they call hornet "hype" reminds them of the 1970s public scare when Africanized honeybees, nicknamed "killer bees," started moving north from South America. While these more aggressive bees did make it up to Texas and the Southwest, they didn’t live up to the horror-movie moniker. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... they also do kill people in rare situations. This time it’s hornets with the homicidal nickname, which bug experts want to ditch. "They are not ’murder hornets.’ They are just hornets," said Washington Agriculture Department entomologist Chris Looney, who is working on the state’s search for these large hornets. The facts are, experts said, two dead hornets were found in Washington last December, a lone Canadian live nest was found and wiped out last September and no live hornets have yet been seen this year Crap! And I just bought my |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #12 I don't care if he's Mohommad "I'm Hard" Bruce Lee, you can't change fighters. |
| Posted by: Bricktop 2020-05-08 18:17 |
| #11 That hornet was hardly a "murder" hornet. That video the more and more I think about it was a joke. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-08 17:21 |
| #10 looks like the Hornet was paid to throw the fight |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-05-08 11:34 |
| #9 LOL |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-08 10:15 |
| #8 /\ While yet unconfirmed, his name was reported to be Rambler. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-08 09:58 |
| #7 Morning snark-o-thon. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-08 09:52 |
| #6 ^ Possibly it was an AMC Hornet which were shipped to dealer's lot half-dead? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-08 09:46 |
| #5 Hornet appears to be half dead to start with. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-05-08 09:34 |
| #4 Quick draft them into the CBP before some federal judge issues a restraining order. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-08 08:27 |
| #3 not prey to illusions but that doesn't look like prayer from here |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-08 02:41 |
| #2 Cool. I used feed preying mantises grasshoppers when I was a young lad. But this video is hardly shocking with both incects in a box. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-08 00:40 |
| #1 Now THAT'S a cage match. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-05-08 00:09 |