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.
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
mlg@lemmy.world 3 hours 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!.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 day ago
[✓] Small Pox [✓] Murder Hornets [ ] Twitter
We’re almost there, humanity!
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 day ago
Can’t you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
[❌]
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Yes, the only three problems!
NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Oh wait someone has started unchecking all the previously checked boxes
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 day ago
Small pox won’t be checked for long.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Declared extinct in the wild by the WHO in 1980.
ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
I’d just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.
voldage@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah sure “murder hornets”. Like “murder japs”, “murder communists”, “murder vietnamese”, “murder gays”, “murder blacks” or “murder arabs” before. I think I’ll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.
Prethoryn@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Hey man, I don’t disagree with you.
However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, “meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer.” You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.
Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy
In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.
voldage@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
why so mad bro? did a murder hornet kill your family and now you’re pissed because the farmers of America didn’t kill them faster?
BreadOven@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Supportive Emu noises
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 9 hours 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!
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
– Ladies and gentlemen, we got’em.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
*breakcore starts blasting*
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 day ago
“Yeah, yeah, we’re totally eradicated. All is now fine, there’s nothing to worry about. Sleep well!” - Sneaky Murder Hornet.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”
Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 21 hours ago
How about every fucking World Series there bucko? Nice try!
Comment105@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
I’m guessing you mean the mislabeled North American Championship?
yeather@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Smallpox?
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
(cough desert storm)
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)
“…thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated”
(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)
“…many communities in the northwest united states can breathe a little easier knowing that the dreaded murder hornet is no longer on our shores. Reporting from Seattle…”
(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard and a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)
superkret@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Coming Soon…
MURDER H4NET
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Snakes On A Plane 4: This Time It’s Hornets- A film by Chat GPT
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Murd3r Horn3t: The Buzzening
Slovene@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.
uis@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Article written by Dr. M. Horneté
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 23 hours ago
Brilliant thanks for the chuckle mate.
dellish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey hey, the US actually won a war! Been a long time coming…
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
finally some good fucking food…
Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Pretty uncommon but it has happened. Especially with agricultural pests where there is a large industry that can push for a proper response. I’m guessing beekeepers were the industry in question this time.
superkret@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Never. Cause the definition of “Invasive species” includes it being a problem. Otherwise they’re called “Introduced species”.
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn’t get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Until the next ones arrive on another ship
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
a space ship
EDF! EDF!
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Quatermass disapproves
telllos@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Same kind of win as with the war in Afghanistan ?
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They really didn’t go with homicidal hornets? We actin’ like fun alliterations just come around all the time now?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
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”
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Russians did most of the winning in WWII too. What with being on the other side of the ocean and all
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I mean there is an argument that though they lost a lot of battles they did eventually win the cold war.
FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The cold war ended?
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
armed conflicts
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
sucks that Canadians can’t win wars either, eh?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
We don’t start or lose them either.