I'd just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.
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It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.
Sorry what
They used the flags as tracking targets for cameras, usually mounted to drones, and then followed the murder hornets back to their hives. EXAMPLE VIDEO
That is WILD
Surly other methods too?
Yeah, one team tied a phone tag on them with dental floss to track a little easier or over longer distance. Another group used a BlueTooth device. It took about a year for scientists in the USA to track down a single nest in 2020-2021 when it first started. A public awareness campaign was able to provide samples and the government agencies and labs with the FDA and local agriculture were able to develop new baits for them which unfortunately had local species casualties as well. I'm not sure if a pesticide was ever developed specifically for them.
Fun fact, multiple species of giant Asian hornets were discovered around the same time period in the Washington State region and Canada.
It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there's just some random CCP agent going Rats! We've been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!
America and its "wars against...."
America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"
Russians did most of the winning in WWII too. What with being on the other side of the ocean and all
armed conflicts
I mean there is an argument that though they lost a lot of battles they did eventually win the cold war.
The cold war ended?
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Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.
Can't wait for spring!
Supportive Emu noises
Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.
I hadnt heard "murder gays". Not sure that one is very dangerous sounding. Statistically speaking, dangerous gay people must exist, I just have never met one personally. Odd.
Hey man, I don't disagree with you.
However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, "meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer." You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.
Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy
In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
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Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.
Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.
Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets
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[✓] Small Pox
[✓] Murder Hornets
We're almost there, humanity!
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(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)
"...thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated..."
(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)
"...and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle..."
(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)
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