Great news...the Japanese Giant Hornet has recently established itself in Washington state.

Giant hornets are bee predators. They can decimate a hive in hours. Japanese honey bees have a defense against them...they can vibrate their bodies generating enough heat to kill the hornets but not enough to kill themselves. Italian and other European bee species don't have that defense. If giant hornets spread, they could be a death nail in the already struggling American bee/honey industries.
Also worth noting, they kill up to 50 people a year in Japan, but far more in China. They could be worse than killer bees in multiple ways. For instance, they can sting through a bee suit, each one can sting multiple times, and they can thrive in cold that killer bees can't survive.

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Well don't worry, I heard the are should banning travel from Asia now that it's here.

Everyone is saying it's a Democrat hoax, CNN is probably reporting it wrong anyway. Obama probably didn't prepare us for the hornet that got here two days ago. It should be gone for the summer. It disappears its like a miracle. They have it under control.

6 months later, hornets in all 50 states
"I think we did a great job!"
"Hillary would have done worse."
"It's the reason we need a tax cut for people making $1,000,000 a year or more. Cut funding from the railroads."

*science

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Can't this guy just eat Tide Pods like all the other YouTube kids?

This is a bizarre genre of porn

They're in BC too. I really hope they are successful in exterminating them before they get a foothold.

This is like Jackass crossed with The Crodcodile Hunter.

Need more Praying Mantis

Isn't that always true in any situation (like cowbell)? ;-)

You can buy mantis egg clusters for your garden from most nurseries, they hatch out by the hundreds. I buy a few every year, but rarely see full sized mantises (mantes) in my garden, and never new egg clusters. I did catch one a few Octobers back before it got cold and kept it alive until spring in my window plants, but I think they normally die before it freezes outside...hornet queens hibernate underground if I remember correctly. :-(