re: Asia’s ‘murder hornet’ found in US for first time

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I 'member.
Seems like I was in elem/middle school. Late 80s/90

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I remember driving across Texas in the early 90's and their were blue, mailbox sized 'houses' on on the power poles going down the road. When we stopped at a gas station, I asked the attendant about them and he said they were placed there to intercept the killer bees migrating up from Mexico. I guess they would check them every so often and eliminate the swarm if they found them.

We never really heard much about killer bees after that so maybe the strategy worked or more probable, was all hype to begin with.

I'm going to put 'murder bees' pretty far down my list of concerns for now.

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Now, deadly hornets from Asia that measure up to 2 inches long

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I bet these are considered food in China.

I've seen those in two different occasions. It's been several years though.

Correction, one was a cicada killer.

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I remember as a kid back in the late 70s being told repeatedly that Africanized Killer Bees were going to destroy the US. Im still waiting

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That was still a thing in the early 90s. I remember doing a speech about it in a class at LSU.

I got some pyrethiod that’ll frick their shite up

Wuh-wasps

If you're going to use the Three Stooges School of hand to hand comment, do you poke the big eyes or three in the top of its head?

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Japan attributes 50 human deaths a year to the nasty buzzers

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Oh no.

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I remember as a kid back in the late 70s being told repeatedly that Africanized Killer Bees were going to destroy the US. Im still waiting.

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Aren’t fire ants from Asia?