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Elimination of a hornet population in the city
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Imagine being in of those suits and bringing a tennis racket
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The zapper kind. I imagine it would short out pretty fast
S
shorting it out is how those things work. The flies short out the circuit.
M
*taps temple*
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Blow dart gun Jungle2Jungle style Awwooh?!
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“Hello you”
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Just burn it all
T
Like, literally. There’s nothing there worth saving and it’s the best excuse ever to rent a flamethrower
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RFK Jr enters the chat… “HoRneTs CuRE cAnCER iF tAKEn rEctALLy.”
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Can you repeat that but clear your throat between each letter
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Good thing we did. The administration probably already laid off the peolple that do that work.
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I think they eat the larvae.
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“Nuke it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.”
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*from orbit
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This is my question. Why in tf would you just destroy the nest and let those fuckers fly out to create another one? Destroy that damn thing and the hornets in it, ffs.
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because these might be farmed. Japanese farm these fuckers, they relocate wild nests to wood structures so they can harvest them at all stages to be eaten.
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Google says they eat the larvae, in a small handful of regions.
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They eat em?!? How did anyone even think to try that? “Ehh seem them angry scary nasty fuckers? Wanna try and catch a few to eat? A couple stings can’t be that bad”
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lot of societies have eaten insects of many kinds for a very long time. Tons of protein just flying around waiting to be skewered and roasted. easier to catch and prep these big fuckers than trying to mess around with smaller insects too. Just gotta wear the right protection.
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Hakuna matata
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They *eat* them? WTF?
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This is farming of Japanese hornets.
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Why? What do they harvest from them?
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They eat the grubs, the babies. They wait until the nest is big enough, then they come in and break it up and take all the brood. Boil them up then either just eat them as is or mash them up and combine with vegetables and spices. There is a YouTuber who goes and watches them do it and tries the grubs later on. Can’t recall his name
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this is more WTF than the post
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I always find it funny how people are so eww wtf about eating bugs when we so readily eat what are pretty much sea bugs
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A lot of red food dye is crushed bugs
M
And people cried about that when they found out (which they are safe for human consumption), but in the meantime sucked down drinks with dyes like Red 40 when concerns about them were known for decades. The irony.
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Humans have been eating bugs for thousands of years, its no big deal…….
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For anyone curious; it could’ve been Andrew Fraser [in this video](https://youtu.be/ow614rxJXfQ?si=gvXaRxlkSrD34vKG&t=939). They’re a delicacy in these remote villages in Vietnam – comparable to their version of lobster, perhaps.
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Yep 👍
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Aren’t there other grubs that are much easier to farm, or is there something special about hornet larvae?
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My guess is that hornet larvae are fatter and probably not poisonous so they’re prime eatin
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I believe they’re more nummy
U
hornets are very easy to farm tho. Just wear a suit and they cant do anything to you
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No wonder all the hornets are mad!!
B
Damn that’s terrifying. That shit would kill you. I got stung by a giant black hornet once and my god it felt like I got shot 20 times with a BB gun. Motherfucker wouldn’t stop stinging (could have just been the sensation from the venom) and then my calf swelled up to the size of my thigh. I’d be dead within a minute from all of the hornets in this video lmao
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That’s a lot of spicy flies.
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That’s a lot of trust put into those safety suits
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Where can I watch this entire video?
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i know Ukraine needs all the 155mm shells they can get, but we could spare 2-3 for this, right?
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or maybe we can just move all of these hornets to moscow
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Oh my god this is my personal hell
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That’s a super colony, like the title says practically a city. I can’t imagine that’s run by a single queen. There must be constant territory disputes with fledgling queens and the horde either irradiating them or turning on their current queen. I’d love to see how something like that plays out in a colony that size
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jesus christ
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That takes some big balls. I’d feel like I was suffocating.
M
this is what flame throwers are for
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Just when you get in one of those suits…..damn…gotta pee
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I’d rather use napalm to get rid of it.
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