War Has Been Delcared

[Bailey Guns]

So not just hornets, but illegal hornets?

They're just stinging people normal, ordinary American hornets won't sting.

[Mazin]

Poor lil' Popcorn took one in the rump this morning. She jumped in the air, tried to bite it and ran over to hide between my legs. She has a small bump where it got her.



Now she's laying around like a good girl, just not on her left side.

Usually that's what mine looks like after the benadryl. Stupid assholes with wings!

[Gman]

My problem could be worse, I guess. Huge European hornet nest inside a car in Ohio:

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[rondog]

Poor lil' Popcorn took one in the rump this morning. She jumped in the air, tried to bite it and ran over to hide between my legs. She has a small bump where it got her.



Now she's laying around like a good girl, just not on her left side.

Poor lil' sweetie.....

When our first Beagle was only a few months old she got hit by a hornet. I was getting ready to start grilling, turned around, and she was unconcious on the porch steps. I thought for sure she was dead. Cost me $400 at an emergency vet clinic to find out you can just give 'em Benadryl......

[ChadAmberg]

Growing up, Dad was a lineman for the phone company. Had many bottles of the freon spray that would reach a nest 30 feet up from the ground with a stream of pure liquid cold. Fun stuff! Of course, so completely outlawed now.
However I have not given up... those electrified tennis racquets are so much fun!

[DenverGP]

I suspect my pup got stung last weekend, face was swelled up, some spots/hives visible thru the fur, and very itchy. 2 benadryl and she managed to be able to sleep, swelling was gone by the next day.

[Bailey Guns]

Just when you thought wasps couldn't get any creepier:

It sounds like something out of the "Alien" movie series, but wasps that lived during the age of dinosaurs laid eggs inside fly pupae, with the wasps eating the flies from the inside out.

The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed that four new wasp species were found inside fossil pupae that date back to the Paleogene period, approximately 65 million to 23 million years ago. The female wasps would lay their eggs inside the fly pupae and as the wasps grew, they would harvest the flies' bodies as nourishment.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/...nside-out.html

[thvigil11]

Anyone ever watch the series Fortitude? Ice age wasps scare the hell out of me after that show.

[Gman]

Just when you thought wasps couldn't get any creepier:



http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/...nside-out.html

There are some species of wasps that were introduced to kill invasive species of bugs. They do the same thing today.

[BladesNBarrels]

Well, according to the Post, we are importing wasps to kill the Japanese Beetle:
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/2...tles-colorado/

...shipments of live predatory wasps were mailed this year from North Carolina to Colorado researchers, who released them into the wild with an assassin’s mission: Sniff out Japanese beetle larvae known as white grubs, burrow underground and lay eggs on the grubs that will eventually hatch, eating the infant beetles.

“Yes, it’s that crazy,” said Larry Hurd, supervisor of the horticulture department for Centennial-based South Suburban Parks and Recreation.

The infestation that stuck and spread originated in Arapahoe County’s Cherry Hills Village area.

“The Cherry Hills Country Club is historically where we became aware of them in the Denver/Englewood area,” said Laura Pottorff, who manages the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s quarantine program for Japanese beetles. “There are a lot of rumors about where it got its start. It may have been the golf course that brought in trees with the beetle. It may have been a nursery down the street. It doesn’t matter who brought the nursery stock in. It’s here.”