' Murder hornets' found in Washington state.

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US scientists find country’s first ‘murder hornet’ nest
The Washington State Department of Agriculture plans to try to eradicate the Asian giant hornet nest on Saturday.

Scientists in the northwest United States have located the country’s first nest of Asian giant hornets, otherwise known as “murder hornets”.

In a statement on Friday, the Washington State Department of Agriculture said entomologists discovered the nest inside the cavity of a tree on a property in Blaine, a small town on the state’s northern border with Canada.
The two-inch insects, dubbed “murder hornets” because of their strong sting that can be fatal to some humans, especially after repeated stings, were first spotted in the US in December 2019 when the Washington State Department of Agriculture verified two reported sightings near Blaine.
More sightings were reported in Washington State throughout the year.

Asian giant hornets can sting through most beekeeper suits, deliver nearly seven times the amount of venom as a honey bee, and sting multiple times, AP news agency reported.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/23/us-scientists-find-countrys-first-murder-hornet-nest
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Watch out.
Climate's getting warmer.
 
This has nothing to do with global warming, but the honey bees are in big trouble, and so are we because we so depend upon bees which these creatures attack and bees have long been in trouble. Even more interesting is that the entire global insect population is shrinking fast.

Buckle Up......this is going to be trouble.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
This has nothing to do with global warming, but the honey bees are in big trouble, and so are we because we so depend upon bees which these creatures attack and bees have long been in trouble. Even more interesting is that the entire global insect population is shrinking fast.

Buckle Up......this is going to be trouble.
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You wouldn't say that if you lived here, incredible butterflies, bees, hornets, reptiles etc.
 
moon said:
Watch out.
Climate's getting warmer.
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This has noting to do with the climate and everything to do with world trade and invasive species. Asian hornets are just the latest invasive species to make it to the US. Common earthworms, European honey bees, the quagga mussel, buffel grass, etc., are others that arrived here from elsewhere via trade.
 
But in areas with intensive industrialized agriculture, the drop in insect populations is worrying.
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the problem isn't insect population decline......the problem is intensive industrialized agriculture......
 
T. A. Gardner said:
This has noting to do with the climate and everything to do with world trade and invasive species. Asian hornets are just the latest invasive species to make it to the US. Common earthworms, European honey bees, the quagga mussel, buffel grass, etc., are others that arrived here from elsewhere via trade.
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Hitched a ride into Canada on airplane we are told.....that's why these critters are here.....but

"GLOBAL WARMING!"







barf
 
T. A. Gardner said:
This has noting to do with the climate and everything to do with world trade and invasive species. Asian hornets are just the latest invasive species to make it to the US. Common earthworms, European honey bees, the quagga mussel, buffel grass, etc., are others that arrived here from elsewhere via trade.
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It has everything to do with climate. It doesn't matter how alien animals arrive- it's a matter of whether the climate is hospitable or not when they turn up to breed.

Still, I ain't arguing the point with no self-styled JPP zoologists. It's a warning. Mind your ass in the outhouse.
 
moon said:
It has everything to do with climate. It doesn't matter how alien animals arrive- it's a matter of whether the climate is hospitable or not when they turn up to breed.
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Bullshit. The Asian Giant Hornet's range of habitat in Asia has long been compatible with much of N. America. In Asia it can be found from the southern edge of Siberian Russia to Sri Lanka. It hasn't come here before this because it had no means of transit. Two separate colonies have made it here too. One is from Korea the other Japan based on the DNA samples of captured examples.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Bullshit. The Asian Giant Hornet's range of habitat in Asia has long been compatible with much of N. America. In Asia it can be found from the southern edge of Siberian Russia to Sri Lanka. It hasn't come here before this because it had no means of transit. Two separate colonies have made it here too. One is from Korea the other Japan based on the DNA samples of captured examples.
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You're full of shit

'Murder hornet' nest found in Washington believed to be first in the US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/us/asian-giant-murder-hornet-nest-scn-trnd/index.html
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Bullshit. The Asian Giant Hornet's range of habitat in Asia has long been compatible with much of N. America. In Asia it can be found from the southern edge of Siberian Russia to Sri Lanka. It hasn't come here before this because it had no means of transit. Two separate colonies have made it here too. One is from Korea the other Japan based on the DNA samples of captured examples.
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Obviously you know something....how concerned are you about the honeybees that are responsible for so much of our food?
 
Trumpet said:
You're full of shit

'Murder hornet' nest found in Washington believed to be first in the US

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/us/asian-giant-murder-hornet-nest-scn-trnd/index.html
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So? Previous nests were found in British Columbia. Insects don't know what borders are. It's that they're on the N. American continent, same as fire ants for example or kudzu (both are invasive species from Asia). Oh, I'd suggest you use a source that isn't run by conspiracy theorists in the future too...
 
Since those first specimens were found, scientists in Washington State and British Columbia have set up a network to monitor for more V. mandarinia, and have found a few, but they’ve also done a different type of investigation, using genetics to figure out whether the hornets in BC and Washington were related. Their results were published in September in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

The scientists specifically looked at the DNA found in the hornets’ mitochondria—the “power plants” that turn nutrients into energy in the cells of eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi, and a host of other organisms that aren’t bacteria or archaea). Mitochondria are the remains of a long-ago event: a bacterium found its way into another organism and, through a series of evolutionary changes, became part of that organism. Consequently, mitochondrial DNA differs from that found in the rest of the cell. It is also matrilineal, passed down from mother to offspring without input from the father, and therefore shows much less change from one generation to the next than the DNA in the rest of an organism. This relative constancy makes mitochondrial DNA a useful tool for tracking lineages.

For the Vespa mandarinia study, the scientists sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of the British Columbia and Washington specimens, along with specimens from Japan and South Korea, and found that the North American imports do not have the same mother. While the Washington state specimen shared 99.5 percent of its mitochondrial DNA with the one from South Korea, the Canadian and Japanese specimens shared a bit more than 60 percent of their DNA. Lead author Telissa Wilson, with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, writes in an email, “We were all surprised that the U.S. and Canada samples were from different lineages when the locations were in such close proximity.”
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https://entomologytoday.org/2020/10...lues-giant-hornets-invasion-vespa-mandarinia/
 
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