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2007-02-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Hornets hit France and could reach Britain

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Posted by Fred 2007-02-21 11:05|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SURRENDER NOW...BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!
Hornet's.....why do they hate us????

Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-02-21 11:15|| 2007-02-21 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame world trade in Chinese pottery for these devils!!!

NO BEES FOR POTS!!!

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-02-21 11:37|| 2007-02-21 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Wikipedia sez:

In Japan's mountain villages, the hornets are valued as part of the basic diet. They are eaten deep fried or as a kind of hornet sashimi

Hmm, Ima thinking of a solution that could only work in France...

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2007-02-21 11:47|| 2007-02-21 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Hornets hit France and could reach Britain

And people complain about the F/A-18 having short legs! Maybe these are the new Super Hornets...

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-21 11:49|| 2007-02-21 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 And people complain about the F/A-18 having short legs! Maybe these are the new Super Hornets...

the last pre-production team at Grumman is the ugly team, always somthin ugly added to any Grumman Aircraft.

Posted by RD 2007-02-21 11:58|| 2007-02-21 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Global warmingn idiocy.

Japan's giant hornet has prospered in climates similar to Europe's for millenia.

If hornetrs had expande through Siberia that they previously were unable to croos then you couls have put it on global warming but they came by ship or plane!!!

BTW beehive oweners have problem: european bees are sompletely unable to defend against them. I have seen a video where no more than thirty japanese hornets massacred an entire beehive and just lost four or five of their own.

Japanese bees know how to deal with giant hornets, euroean ones don't.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-21 12:13|| 2007-02-21 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Sooo, can France destroy these things are will fighting them only make more?

I'm starting to see a pattern with Asian insects. Those of us in the States have a bazillion of these silly ass Asian lady bug things that are everywhere all the time.

Bugs, fish, Bird flu, people... It looks like everything Asain spreads like wildfire.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-02-21 12:43|| 2007-02-21 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Japanese bees know how to deal with giant hornets, euroean ones don't.

So, JFM, your insects are like your military or national will to live?

*ducks*

Posted by BA 2007-02-21 13:33|| 2007-02-21 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 If your bowel movement changes - Global Warming!

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-02-21 14:24|| 2007-02-21 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I just put it down to global swarming.

Posted by Fred 2007-02-21 14:44|| 2007-02-21 14:44|| Front Page Top

#11 OK, so # 4 and 5 beat me. Dammit.
And echo what RD sez: If its ugly its Ironworks.
If its double ugly, its a Prowler.....(inside Grumman joke)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-02-21 14:47|| 2007-02-21 14:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Mike N said: #7 Sooo, can France destroy these things are will fighting them only make more?

I'm starting to see a pattern with Asian insects. Those of us in the States have a bazillion of these silly ass Asian lady bug things that are everywhere all the time.

Bugs, fish, Bird flu, people... It looks like everything Asain spreads like wildfire.

It works basically the same way for any invasive species no matter how it gets to wherever it's invading.

The local ecology simply is not adapted to compete against the invader which has no local competitors. Therefore the natives generally lose and are forced out of the ecological niches.

Lady bugs, for example, were introduced to control certain pests. They expanded out of the introduction areas into other areas and out competed the local fauna.

Japanese kudzu was introduced into the US and promoted as a ground cover. It now covers something like 8-10 million hectares of the southeastern USA and is considered a pest plant.

Eucalyptus trees were introduced to provide for cheap hardwoods. They expanded out of their introduction areas and provide neither cheap nor hard woods.

People have purposefully introduced invasive species into California, just as an example, due to sheer malicious mischief or a sense that one species just won;t make a difference.

It can and does.

There are probably less than 15 species which prey on eucalyptus in California and, in California ecalyptus groves the species diversity is markedly decreased over what you would find in non-eucalyptus groves (mainly due to the amount of dross, or leaf litter, that ecalyptus drop, their chemical defenses, and the fact that they require enormous amounts of water).

Invasive species are real and a very real threat to native ecolonies and economies (and the subject of my new book which hit the 40% mark the other day).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-21 15:45|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-21 15:45|| Front Page Top

#13 I for one welcome our insect overlords.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-21 16:28|| 2007-02-21 16:28|| Front Page Top

#14 It had to be said.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-21 16:29|| 2007-02-21 16:29|| Front Page Top

#15 There's an easy solution to this, but I don't think flamethrowers are legal in France.

Posted by Charles 2007-02-21 16:33|| 2007-02-21 16:33|| Front Page Top

#16 BUGZILLAS 'tis Dubya's fault. HONEYBEES are females and all females [e.g. Islamist/Russian/
Iranian women refusing to have kiddies]refuse to do their thing until Hillary becomes POTUS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-21 20:00|| 2007-02-21 20:00|| Front Page Top

#17 Is there no BUG SPRAY in France ?

Posted by J.D. Lux 2007-02-21 20:19|| 2007-02-21 20:19|| Front Page Top

#18 It's the end times---now all we need are locusts and plagues.

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