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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.

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[–] BreadOven 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Supportive Emu noises

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (19 children)

America and its "wars against...."

America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"

[–] LeroyJenkins 4 points 6 days ago

armed conflicts

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[–] Mystech 8 points 5 days ago

War against Murder CEOs remains unresolved.

[–] ZeffSyde 12 points 6 days ago

Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.

Can't wait for spring!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.

[–] AngryCommieKender 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pretty sure you guys have bought all our good toys, except the F-22. We won't let that thing out of the hanger.

[–] finitebanjo 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry what

[–] finitebanjo 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They used the flags as tracking targets for cameras, usually mounted to drones, and then followed the murder hornets back to their hives. EXAMPLE VIDEO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is WILD

Surly other methods too?

[–] finitebanjo 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, one team tied a phone tag on them with dental floss to track a little easier or over longer distance. Another group used a BlueTooth device. It took about a year for scientists in the USA to track down a single nest in 2020-2021 when it first started. A public awareness campaign was able to provide samples and the government agencies and labs with the FDA and local agriculture were able to develop new baits for them which unfortunately had local species casualties as well. I'm not sure if a pesticide was ever developed specifically for them.

Fun fact, multiple species of giant Asian hornets were discovered around the same time period in the Washington State region and Canada.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is great! I had no idea.

I don't want to be the guy on the internet that says "they should have done x" as though the scientists aren't experts in their field, but I do wonder why they didn't use a bright orange flag or something. The white flag worked well enough, though.

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[–] mlg 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there's just some random CCP agent going Rats! We've been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!

[–] wolfpack86 2 points 5 days ago

George Bush "Mission Accomplished" or...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Too bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

braaaap suspiciously murder hornet shaped stomach

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