A roughly 2-inch long insect known as the "murder hornet" has made its way to the U.S. for the first time ever, researchers said. The Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, has been known to kill up to 50 people a year in Japan, according to The New York Times, and has the potential to devastate U.S. bee populations, which have already been declining.
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That dog loves to chase and catch anything that flies - bumblebees, honeybees, wasps - he don't give a fuck. It's nothing to let him in the house and see his lips are all swollen.
I'm tellin' you, that dog ain't real bright.
Apparently, you don't have porcupines in your woods. A real asshole dog won't leave those alone either.
ReplyDeleteAn Article at Redstate claims that Japanese honeybees have developed the strategy of 'balling and vibrating' the hornet, generating a killing temperature of 115 degrees F (the bees can tolerate temps of up to 118 degrees), 'cooking' the hornet. If the hornets attack enmasse it won't work.
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lil jack
Interestingly they only rate a 2 on the Schmidt pain scale.
ReplyDeleteThe aggressive 10mm long Jackjumper ant out my way rates a 3.
I'd take chances against a hornet anyday. SWAT!! Dead.
Stomp a jackjumper 50 times and it just gets stroppy.
We had a big nest of these guys on our little combat outpost in Afganistan. They didn't do much as long as you didn't screw with them. Big and scary, yeah, but mostly passive buggers.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, we had a German Shepard that took to eating bees after one stung him for being curious. He started chasing birds thinking they were big bees. Then the helicopter flew over the house.
ReplyDeleteI knew a dog that loved mouthing toads. We us to torment the neighbor who owned the dog by pointing out a toad to the dog. Then we would show the new kid on the block the dog foaming at the mouth. The kid would run screaming home. One of the kid's parents would step out on the porch to observe the foaming dog. Then a phone call would be made to the local PD. The local Chief would have to come out and explain that there was nothing wrong with his dog it just liked toads.
ReplyDeleteWhen our golden pup was about a year old, she came in one day with her whole face so swollen she could hardly see. I took her to the vet in a panic, but they were pretty nonchalant about it; called it her "Shar Pei" look and told me to give her Benadryl. It was gone in a day. She's been a bit shy of those "jalapeno sky raisins" since then.
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