Illegal Asian Emigrant
First it was Africanized “Killer” bees coming up from South America, where the local honey bees were cross bred with the African Lowland honey bee, in order to increase honey production. Not a good idea. This highly aggressive cross will react to disturbances faster than local honey bees. They have chased people a quarter of a mile, and they have killed humans, with victims receiving ten times more stings than from local honey bees. Now what?
“Asian Murder Hornets”
Asia’s ‘murder hornet’ lands in US for first time
By Robert Gearty
Beekeepers are fretting about a deadly threat from Asia.
Deadly hornets from Asia that measure up to 2 inches long have been found for the first time in the U.S., with researchers worried that the insects are colonizing, the New York Post reported Saturday.
The “murder hornets,” as the aggressive insects are known, can wipe out bee colonies within hours and have stingers long and powerful enough to puncture beekeeping suits, according to the paper.
In Japan, the hornets kill up to 50 people a year, according to The New York Times.
In the state of Washington, beekeepers have already seen the hornets devastate their hives, according to the paper.
The hornet has a distinctive look, with a cartoonishly fierce face featuring teardrop eyes like Spider-Man, orange and black stripes that extend down its body like a tiger and broad, wispy wings like a small dragonfly, The Times reported.
“This is our window to keep it from establishing,” Washington state entomologist Chris Looney told The Times. “If we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.”
Anything else Asia wants to throw at us? Coronavirus, now this. Can’t wait to see what comes next. Read the rest of the article here: Fox News
Category: Illegal Immigrants
Kill it with fire.
Genetically engineered by a lab in Wuhan PRC with American NIH funding rammed through by Anthony Fauci…(Sarc?)
Developed and funded by Harvard? Perhaps that professor brought them back from one of his visits to Wuhan?
You can definitely find these little winged bastards in Japan which is just great because I’m allergic to stings. Many people in the comments are betting it came from China, but they easily could have come from anywhere in Asia. You can find them throughout much of the continent, even as far north as Russia.
“Can’t wait to see what comes next.”
How about giant, drooling ants with projecting jaws? Facehuggers, maybe? The hunting guys with the dreadlocks and crab faces that collect skull trophies?
Nah, the giant ants were due to nuclear testing – remember? (smile)
I was nine years old when Them came out and I saw it at the movies and it scared the shit out of me. My Uncle owned a Hudson and I think it was the Bee or Hornet. I know there was a bee but cannot get anything on it but years ago I saw one at a body shops yard.
I saw it at a movie theater when I was about ten.
I saw it on tv when I was 6 or 7, scared the sheeit outta me.
I was just reading an article about the
Hornet and the Bee in a magazine at my
mechanics shop. I gotta go back there
this week so I will see if I can find it.
Written by a guy that restored one just
like his uncles, sold it and then found
it years later and restored it again.
My Aunt had a Hornet. It was cool.
Earth V. The Spider
Day of the Triffids
Teenagers From Outer Space
War of the Worlds (the original)
The Thing (original)
The Blob (original w/Steve McQueen)
2001: A Space Odyssey
I could go on but you get the drift….
When my Cousin was up from DC visiting us, she took myself and my kid sister to see Earth VS The Flying Saucers. Had to take the Q 5 bus and then the Jamaica ave El train to the movie theater. I was eleven at the time.
https://youtu.be/6jisNh8jP_g
Now, that is REAL dancin’!
Hoo-yah! Wow.
Some of those moves reminds me of my early Hakkoryu-based jujutsu training!
At least they are big enough to take with a shotgun.
A new American sport.
Always love the “killer African bees” line. Beekeepers have been crossbreeding with African strains since the turn of the century….the one 120 years ago.
Asia? Oh why yes, super group Asia’s first album from ’82 is pretty pretty good. 🙂
After seeing the articles about this hornet, I’m thinkin’ we don’t just need a wall on the southern border, we need one down the International Date Line. Only one opening, each item being traded from Asia to the Americas gets inspected/dismantled/fumigated/baked/soaked in naptha/frozen in liquid nitrogen….
Another reason we have to be really thankful that our intellectual betters decided to bring China and other Asian nations into close trading relationships.
Next we could end up with THESE Killer Bees!
Back when SNL was funny.
And watching it was the highlight of a sleepover at a friend’s house!
“It’s a Bug hunt”
– Corporal Hicks
Racist.
I assume that was humor. See my opinion of the term in the comments of my “First Amendment Protesters “Racist” Update” Lars.
*grin*
Yeah. It was humor Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. 😊
Oh, lookee, look here, everyone! Commissar Commissar used a bad word!!!
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!
When proggies have nothing funny to say, out comes ” racist”.
You are reaching.
Well, 11B Mailclerk it’s because Lars the Comissar doesn’t know that insects don’t have races. They have only SPECIES.
And the SPECIES known as Asian Hornets are on their way down to Berserkley. They like warm weather.
Nuke ’em from orbit. It’s the only way.