Ha. I've been watching videos for a few years on these flying monsters. They are legit terrifying. And they kill 50 people a year in Japan.
Killer bees? Sphhhfft.
(By the way, for those of you who grew up with the killer bee threat--remember Spock's "In Search Of" show?, that was awesome--it seems the initial predictions that killer bees would not move very far north into the US were sort of correct. The current theory is that, while they have moved north into the US, when they move north into colder climates, the composition of their colonies changes dramatically. They end up with far higher percentages of more docile worker bees, who are required to spend their energy searching for food in the colder climate, and far lower percentages of aggressive scouts, just sitting around well fed waiting to attack shit. The colonies end up being no more aggressive or dangerous than a normal European bee colony. Just read about this the other day and found it fascinating, having been scared by Spock as a child about them.)
Just another mass-panic inducing media story. I had to explain to people all day today that all hornets are pretty deadly predators besides a very small amount of species. These ones are bigger but they aren't anything new. Killer bees got the same reaction when they peaked a few years ago, and mother nature equalized them just like she will these.
Heh. You wouldn't say that if you were a honey bee.
They're monsters. The queens get up to two inches long, and they've got scary jaws that normal hornets don't have, as seen in that picture. They use the jaws to chop the heads of bees off. I believe this why the Japanese call them "murder hornets". Once a single hornet finds a bee colony, it returns with bodies of bees, and the entire hornet colony, usually about 20 to 30, then raids the bee colony and decapitates the entire colony.
An interesting idea that's floated in that NYT article is that some Japanese studying them think they tend to prefer damper, cooler forests. So, they might not spread all over the US.
We've had years of shooting bloatflies in Fallout we'll be fine.
Ha. I've been watching videos for a few years on these flying monsters. They are legit terrifying. And they kill 50 people a year in Japan.
Killer bees? Sphhhfft.
(By the way, for those of you who grew up with the killer bee threat--remember Spock's "In Search Of" show?, that was awesome--it seems the initial predictions that killer bees would not move very far north into the US were sort of correct. The current theory is that, while they have moved north into the US, when they move north into colder climates, the composition of their colonies changes dramatically. They end up with far higher percentages of more docile worker bees, who are required to spend their energy searching for food in the colder climate, and far lower percentages of aggressive scouts, just sitting around well fed waiting to attack shit. The colonies end up being no more aggressive or dangerous than a normal European bee colony. Just read about this the other day and found it fascinating, having been scared by Spock as a child about them.)
Just another mass-panic inducing media story. I had to explain to people all day today that all hornets are pretty deadly predators besides a very small amount of species. These ones are bigger but they aren't anything new. Killer bees got the same reaction when they peaked a few years ago, and mother nature equalized them just like she will these.
Heh. You wouldn't say that if you were a honey bee.
They're monsters. The queens get up to two inches long, and they've got scary jaws that normal hornets don't have, as seen in that picture. They use the jaws to chop the heads of bees off. I believe this why the Japanese call them "murder hornets". Once a single hornet finds a bee colony, it returns with bodies of bees, and the entire hornet colony, usually about 20 to 30, then raids the bee colony and decapitates the entire colony.
An interesting idea that's floated in that NYT article is that some Japanese studying them think they tend to prefer damper, cooler forests. So, they might not spread all over the US.
Fun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc
Bees kill about 62 people in the US every year
So only slightly more lethal than Coronavirus
A 2in long hornet? Benjamin . . . get my shotgun.
KILLER BEES!!!!