good grief

[lo n slo]

and now, the murder hornet 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcP8hwplqrM

 

[Boomstick]

Funny that you should post this. I'm sitting on my porch and something that looked about the same size just flew into my porch window and flew off. I doubt it was actually a murder hornet, but it did look like a huge bee.

[Smells like fish]

3 hours ago, Boomstick said:

Funny that you should post this. I'm sitting on my porch and something that looked about the same size just flew into my porch window and flew off. I doubt it was actually a murder hornet, but it did look like a huge bee.

Perhaps the lesser sentenced yet deadly Manslaughter Hornet!!!

[Hammer 4]

I sure hope they can get rid of those things before they get a foot hold here..

[TnRiver46]

7 hours ago, Boomstick said:

Funny that you should post this. I'm sitting on my porch and something that looked about the same size just flew into my porch window and flew off. I doubt it was actually a murder hornet, but it did look like a huge bee.

I thought we have always had them, we referred to them as cicada killers because they always seemed to be carrying around a cicada

[slonezp]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I thought we have always had them, we referred to them as cicada killers because they always seemed to be carrying around a cicada

Did you actually see them kill the cicadas? Maybe they were just the clean up crew for the preying mantis gang.

[Bluebasser86]

Cicada Killers are different from these things. Cicada killers are native and have been here for a long time and as the name says, hunt mostly cicadas. The big issue with the Asian Giant Hornets is they hunt honey bees and would have no natural predators here. The European honey bees (what we have in North America) also don't know how to fight back against them like Asian honey bees do.

[jbsoonerfan]

Great, another toilet paper shortage coming to a store near you.

[TnRiver46]

8 hours ago, slonezp said:

Did you actually see them kill the cicadas? Maybe they were just the clean up crew for the preying mantis gang.

I’ve heard cicadas panicking in a cloud of dust but I never knew what was attacking them. I’m in the epipen crew so I don’t get too close! Haha. I’ve also seen the cicada killers digging holes in the ground about the size of a dime, literally throwing dirt out of them. Some folks also call them “miner bees” for that reason 

[Oregon Native]

We got a bee around here called a Velvet ant....walks like it's on steroids and I guess packs quit a punch....kinda cool.  TnRiver may know more about em.

[Boomstick]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I thought we have always had them, we referred to them as cicada killers because they always seemed to be carrying around a cicada

Those are their relatives

[TnRiver46]

45 minutes ago, Oregon Native said:

We got a bee around here called a Velvet ant....walks like it's on steroids and I guess packs quit a punch....kinda cool.  TnRiver may know more about em.

The black and red Things that can’t be stomped to death? 

[lo n slo]

4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

The black and red Things that can’t be stomped to death? 

we call them cow killers

[CountryboyinDC]

I wonder if anyone else thinks that the bugs we have around here are the worst things ever?  I was stationed in Georgia, and those fire ants lit into me it seemed like everytime we had to crawl to set in an assault at night.  The mosquitos in Minnesota seem to be of the nuclear powered kamikaze variety.  Now there's a crazy hornet from Asia gonna kill every honey bee and right many people in North America.  I'm glad I don't have worry about such things in Virginia so much (yet).  Worst we have is gnats.  All you have to do is not shower for a couple of weeks and build up a good crust and they'll leave you alone.

[schplurg]

I'm still waiting for the Killer Bees from the 1970s to invade North America. 

[slonezp]

 

[VolFan]

Those ones carrying the cicadas are ground wasps - they are native and helpful, and also pretty docile. They don't form big hives or nests like many bees and wasps. They can sting, and it packs a wallop, but you have to be really, really dumb and aggressive like holding onto them and not letting go to get stung. Trust me.

[N Florida Mike]

On 5/9/2020 at 9:47 AM, slonezp said:

 

I haven’t laughed that much in a while!!!

 

 

We deal with Cicada killers here. They are scary looking but not very aggressive. Sometimes people want us to treat for them anyway. I’ve stood in a yard full of their nests and them flying around, and they don’t seem to care that your there...

[islandbass]

Hot dog. I think I saw one last week when I was working in my yard and I thought it was definitely odd. 
 

I knew it wasn’t a bee because it was huge comparatively speaking AND it was that color. 
 

Fortunately, my matrix style reflexes were sufficient to evade it as it buzzed around my head and I didn’t make moves to aggravate it but yowza. 
 

And if you need to know, I live in the Pac NW. ?

[lo n slo]

yikes

[Bird]

I have video of those cicada killers......killing cicada.

 

They also fly around the house at night, apparently drawn to light and moths.

 

My brother calls them European Hornets, don't know but they certainly don't act aggressively towards humans. 

[TnRiver46]

14 hours ago, Bird said:

I have video of those cicada killers......killing cicada.

 

They also fly around the house at night, apparently drawn to light and moths.

 

My brother calls them European Hornets, don't know but they certainly don't act aggressively towards humans. 

They attack the lantern all night when camping. Hilarious reactions to the inbound hornets typically end up in minor “alcohol related incidents”

[flatcreek]

Time for a bigger fly swatter 

[Sam]

lo, what ever happened to those man-eating ants from Mexico that invaded Texas many years ago?

 

Those ants were supposed to take over the US.

 

Let me know.