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No Hemiptera can kill with a single sting, and European Honey Bees aren't worth saving.
No Hemiptera can kill with a single sting, and European Honey Bees aren't worth saving.
Using real data always beats using models which are fed assumed data. We are months into the pandemic and still do not know the mortality rate, the spread rate or the percentage of infection. We do know that NY has more infections than anywhere else in the world, yet there is no travel ban/restriction for NY. That is simply moronic. We shutdown cruise ships for dozens of infections yet keep the NYC subways and airports open for thousands of infections.
Giant Asian hornets that can ‘kill with a single sting’ to invade virus-stricken US – The US Sun
They're 2" long and will kill you with a single sting...and they're coming for you!!
Sounds like a delightful creature. The "kill with a single sting" might be a bit exaggerated:
The same is true of just about any bee or wasp.
But the threat to honeybees needs to be taken seriously. Honeybees are essential to a large part of our agricultural crops, i.e., our food. Unless we can learn to eat Asian wasps, then that could be a problem.
No Hemiptera can kill with a single sting, and European Honey Bees aren't worth saving.
Oh no no no no. They will put your arse in the hospital even if you are not allergic to regular bee stings. A coworker not allergic to bees got stung by one of those monster japanese hornets and was out for a couple weeks. The sting site swelled up like a softball.
Didn't we hear that about swarms of Africanized killer bees? Maybe these giant Asian hornets will be similar. Just to be safe let's permanently shutdown all 'non-essential' businesses, public schools and courts - just keep "stay at home" orders in effect forever.
Africanized Killer Bees: Information About African Bees
Sounds painful. I'll pass on being stung, thanks, and just take your word for it.
No Hemiptera can kill with a single sting, and European Honey Bees aren't worth saving.
You don’t like honey or something?
European Honey Bees aren't the only pollinator, and they're only used because they can be trucked around vast fields of monoculture.
But they are an important pollinator. I understand mosquitoes are pollinators as well. Maybe we could use them.
They're important to the current model of agriculture. A move away from monoculture would eliminate the necessity for European Honey Bees, increase native pollinators, and reduce the need for pesticides.
They're important to the current model of agriculture. A move away from monoculture would eliminate the necessity for European Honey Bees, increase native pollinators, and reduce the need for pesticides.
Or.............we could stop eating fruits and vegetables altogether, and start eating nothing but beef jerky! There may be a few disadvantages to that particular diet, so ill have to mull it over... Lol
Most of the food you eat is either wind pollinated, or could be pollinated by other bee species, wasps, butterflies, flies, beetles, hummingbirds, microbats or other small mammals. Hell, most ddietary staples that need to be pollinated are from the New World anyway, and evolved sans Apis mellifera.