That's in the New York Times, where I would expect a little more care not to randomly give off whiffs of xenophobia. Why are they insisting on calling it the "Asian giant hornet"? They already had "murder hornet" and "giant hornet." Why go big "Asian"?
Dr. Looney said it was immediately clear that the state faced a serious problem, but with only two insects in hand and winter coming on, it was nearly impossible to determine how much the hornet had already made itself at home.Must I worry about 2 insects simply because Dr. Looney — if that really is his name — finds the seriousness "immediately clear"?
That said, I am looking for more exciting articles that are not coronavirus or sex and Joe Biden.
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Vote for Joey D’Fingers and enter the digital age. CNN has run a couple of minor stories about Tara Reid, which puts them about 700 stories shy of their coverage of Blasey-Ford. They also have not found an Avenatti character to spice up their coverage. So audience share is not driving them, and they clearly are not searching for the elusive truth, so what could their motive be?
American Idol will be down to their top 10 tonight. I can't remember you writing about Idol this year...
This wouldn't have happened if Hillary were President!!
Since they both came from Asia I think it's only fair to attribute any murder hornet deaths to coronavirus.
I'm told the female murder hornets tend to use aquarium cleaner...
We must close down Washington state now to prevent the epidemic of killer hornets.
Are these hornets murdering people or just bees? Can we train them to go after the Killer Bees? Or are they no longer a thing?
Does this story have legs? Had anyone considered giving legs to a good news story? Anyone other than John Krasinski, that is.
You could write about Candace Owens being banned from Twitter. She has 2.2 million followers on that platform.
"because Dr. Looney — if that really is his name — finds the seriousness...."
It's his real name I'm sure and he probably heard every possible joke by the time he was seven.
Asian Giant Hornet is the correct colloquial name for Vespa mandarinia.
Of course new colloquial names can be created, but every time that happens it confuses things.
For instance I was stung on the face once by a Dolichovespula maculata, which was memorable because it's like being hit on the head with a baseball.
But Dolichovespula maculata has seven colloquial names: bald-faced hornet, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, blackjacket, and bull wasp.
And that makes it difficult to try to track down what people are actually talking about. Especially since I'll bet many of these colloquial names are shared with other species.
"Joe Biden's sexuality" makes it sound like he was caught hanging out at an airport restroom.
Perhaps that should more accurately read, "Democrats are desperate to concern themselves with something other than ... Joe Biden's sexuality." I suspect Republicans are eating this up the same way Democrats ate up the "Russia collusion hoax" and impeachment.
On the other hand, politics tends to mean less to ordinary Republicans than ordinary Democrats.
WWPaulKlee said:
Watch the video 30 Hornets 30,000 Honey Bees. Looks like SciFi. This is a real thing, French Vinyards hardest hit.
You could write about Jonathan Turley's op-ed published in The Hill where he says that the Dems want the same restrictions on free speech as the Chi-Coms.
"whiffs of xenophobia" - I guess that's where no one is expressing an unreasoning hatred of foreigners, but someone somewhere has vague feeling of discomfort. Some word just isn't "right" - so the PC police are speaking up. People had better watch their step! That sounds like a whiff of censorship, and shall I say it, a whiff of Hitler. See, two can play at the smell game.
I've been waiting 40 years for Mexican Killer bees, and still haven't seen one.
Equipment Maintenance said...
"because Dr. Looney — if that really is his name — finds the seriousness...."
It's his real name I'm sure and he probably heard every possible joke by the time he was seven.
I bet a name like that reduces a fella’s marriage prospects.
I’ve been laid up for 3 months with back problem and covid precautions. I’ve read more fiction than I did in the previous 30 years. Screw the world.
Guess Who Often Topped Ed Sullivan & Steve Allen On Sundays?
I bought the first 3 seasons of Maverick, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, and I guess I'll go back to watching these episodes if Althouse can't find anything more interesting to blog about than insects...
People are desperate to concern themselves with something other than corona virus and Joe Biden's sexuality.
First, the decidedly un PC notion that rape has anything to do with sexuality is telling.
Second. Why wouldn't we talk about the DoJ being completely corrupt? Along with the Intelligence Community spying domestically, on a political campaign. Along with The State dept, all three, involved in a coup attempt.
Sure lets focus and a phony rape complaint from 30 years ago, and a virus, that is presenting like most all viruses have for decades, with only the govt lying about it.
It's from Asia. It's extremely deadly to bees. Extremely dangerous to humans. And, oh yes, it's a problem. How your mind must work to see Xenophobia in this.
PS, I have Asian Lillies in my backyard. I will try to come up with a more acceptable name for them. Unfortunately, they are not originally from Scranton.
The problem with the "corrupt DOJ" story is that evidence is only coming out in dribs and drabs. The real tell will be the Durham report.
The Green Hornet is real. I knew it all along.
I am informed that a current pest problem in metropolitan Manila are invasive squirrels. My cousin has them on her mango trees. Yes, I think they eat mangoes.
Dr. Looney is probably an epidemiologist. Based on two insects, we can project exponential growth continuing until ... sometime when it won't continue any more, for reasons that are only known to entomologists, if even to them. The history of contagions suggests that they all stop eventually, God only knows why. The human species has survived some pretty horrifying events that spread exponentially, believe you me. That last Ice Age; by God that was nasty. The hundreds of plagues and famines. Don't get me started. Things are more or less under control in Western countries, where middle-class people have dutifully acquired impressive sounding credentials. But Asia? Be afraid of Asia.
Killer Bees of the new millennium. Every old is new again.
Why are they insisting on calling it the "Asian giant hornet"?
LOL
Asian Giant Hornet is the correct colloquial name for Vespa mandarinia.
Exactly. Like European Honey Bee.
Are these hornets murdering people or just bees?
These hornets kill about 50 people a year in Asia.
Are you not aware that Looney Tunes has always been racist? That's why Whoopi Goldberg gives the introduction on the DVD's. No joke. She absolves them by saying that the Looney Tunes's racial caricatures were wrong then, and are wrong now. (After the intro one can proceed to watching Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez.)
I prefer to call these evil hornets "Oriental," not "Asian."
"Must I worry about 2 insects simply because Dr. Looney — if that really is his name — finds the seriousness "immediately clear"?"
She says as she washes her shoes.
The horticultural world is full of racism:
Dutch elm disease
Gypsy moths
Asian long horned beetle
Japanese beetle....
Tim Maguire said: "I bet a name like that reduces a fella’s marriage prospects."
Not once I tell 'em what it means in Gaelic. wink wink
So there must not be any bees left in Asia.
I think "Yak-killer hornet" is a much catchier name.
"So there must not be any bees left in Asia."
It turns out that Asian honeybees have apparently evolved behavioral mechanisms that allow them to evade and sometimes even kill attacking hornets. Naive European honeybees haven't figured that out, unfortunately.
We already have a giant wasp in Wisconsin. The cicada killer, which I think is about the same size as the murder hornet, is very impressive when you see it flying around.
How about Hornet 19?
They should make a movie, Hornado!
Not sure if would be about killer hornets or Joe Biden.
“...more exciting articles...”. Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn.
Asian Giant Hornet is the correct colloquial name for Vespa mandarinia.
Those Italians do love their motor-scooters ...
I didn't realize that like everything else they are made in Asia nowadays ...
Rimpatriare la catena di approvvigionamento!
Why are they insisting on calling it the "Asian giant hornet"?
Ooooh, I know this one, teacher! [enthusiastically waves hand]
Because it’s a giant hornet that lives in Asia!
"Biden's sexuality" is a stand-in for the political discussion people would have been having if the primaries were still going on.
The price of cancelling the primary season and everybody caving to Joe, who's locked up in his basement, is that the stories attached to him become the focus of discussion.
But would people be talking about Biden at all if it weren't for Tara Reade's story?
I'm old enough to remember when Africanized killer bees with enormous mandingo stingers were coming for your lily-white mother.
The search for the Giant Hornet nests might be a good time for Bayesian statistics. Reminds me of the search for the nuclear bomb lost in the sea in the Palomares incident that is sometimes cited for its use of Bayesian methods.
Funny to hear this described as about Biden’s sexuality as if he were just horny.
If you think about it as an abuse of power by a Senator, and later as VP to show how he can grab and sniff women whether they like it or not, then it tells you more about the man’s character and fitness for office; and it sorts well with his bragging about strong-arming Ukraine into firing Shokin.
Much different, by the way, than a story about a high school junior jumping on a girl at a party that only she remembers.
Even at its most lurid, Joe Biden's sex life is kind of banal. JFK's sex life was the stuff of legends. Bill Clinton's and Donald Trump's scandals were the stuff of tabloids, but they had magnitude and intrinsic interest. Joe Biden does not have Presidential caliber sex scandals. We expect more in our Presidents than hair sniffing and crude passes.
Hail Hornets!
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
It used to be Africanized bees.
Now it is China.
*shrug*
If I see any, I'll squish 'em.
Well. golly! One more reason for me to despise, detest, and distrust the NYT!!!!
Another gift from China, huh? Where on earth is the "return to sender" label when you need it?
Maybe the geniuses at the CDC can figure out how to give the Asian hornets the WuFlu. Or maybe you can't, because they have "swarm immunity".
“The problem with the "corrupt DOJ" story is that evidence is only coming out in dribs and drabs. The real tell will be the Durham report.”
I am not expecting a Durham reports, but rather indictments. My memory is that AG Barr said that a report was not the object of either the Durham or, now, the Jensen, USAs. I think right now that the expectation is that the indictments will be unsealed in June or July. There is some evidence that the principals involved are getting nervous, that there have been some high level people in the DOJ/FBI have flipped, and that whistleblowers in the FBI are leaking, in particular, damaging Wray and Boente.
My theory right now is that they have to start unsealing indictments before the Democrats’ National Convention in August, or wait until after the election (risking that the investigations and prosecutions be shut down by an incoming Dem Administration - which they, always seem to do when regaining control over the Executive Branch). Indictments in September or October would appear overtly political.
For those who haven’t read the latest by Andrew McCarthy: The FBI Set Flynn Up to Preserve the Trump–Russia Probe.
Cyberfrog will save us. He's been dealing with the VYZPZZ since the 1990s.
Remember the south-of-the-border kiler bestsellers on SNL, euphemistically called "South American Killer Bees"?
but with only two insects in hand and winter coming on
I know I've lost track of time during the 'rona-tine, but I was getting ready for summer and now I read that winter is coming.
That's in the New York Times, where I would expect a little more care not to randomly give off whiffs of xenophobia. Why are they insisting on calling it the "Asian giant hornet"? They already had "murder hornet" and "giant hornet." Why go big "Asian"?
Your racism antenna pops up at the oddest times.
It's a hornet, from Asia.
Giant hornets are just following the Asian Brown Marmolated Stinkbugs here in search of opportunity. I used to find something like them in the wooden pallets at one of my jobs. Now I find them in the house. I don't care where they come from, but I would like to get rid of them.
And of course, the Asian Giant Hornets are just killing the bees that American hornets won't kill ...
Conrad Black foresees some changes to come. Maybe we will have Manchurian Mosquitoes too.
I don't worry about Murder Hornets. Killer Bees already wiped out the human race.
Those hornets are creepy, and particularly after we have spent the last 30 years trying revive honeybee colonies.
Northeast Washington is nowhere near SeaTac, and we don't import Asian-grown plants there, AFAIK. There is also a second outbreak on Vancouver Island, same bug but different family. We need to take this at least as seriously as Joe Biden's campaign platform.
If I see any, I'll squish 'em.
@Jupiter, they’re as big as your thump, their stinger is nasty, their venom is worse, and between those two features one hornet can sting a grown man to death pretty quickly.
Bob Boyd said...
They should make a movie, Hornado!
Not sure if would be about killer hornets or Joe Biden.
+1
Jupiter said...
If I see any, I'll squish 'em.
These things are twice as big as the Bald Faced Hornets mandrewa referenced above and twice as mean.
They actually kill people.
If I started seeing them I would make efforts to poison them all. If they actually have nests and a population I would support spending federal money to wipe them out.
Try finding out what's going on in the world other than coronavirus. Or even related to coronavirus.
What's up with the refugee camps full of millions of Syrians in Jordan and Turkey?
How's that proxy was between Saudis and Iranians going in Yemen?
Do Kurds even exist any more?
Has Lybia remained broken, or has it developed up to feudal warlords these days?
Is Cuba's vaunted health care system handling patients with the virus as well as in North Korea, where the joke goes that the patient count goes 1,0,1,0,1,0 as every confired case gets shot?
A local species, pine bark beetles, have devastated evergreen forests across the country since the 1980s. You want wildfires? Dead pine trees burn quite well.
Killer bees used to be a thing. Where are they now?
Elm trees and chestnut trees and oak trees all suffer fungal blights.
You want stories other than coronavirus, nature will provide plenty.
How about reviews of all the new shows on Amazon so I don't have to watch to find the good ones? - if any.
And I wonder what virtual museum shows online are any good?
And I wonder what the favorite board game has been? Settlers of Catan?
And I especially wonder whether lots of people are more interested in home schooling.
And I wonder whether the rich are snatching up all the meat into giant freezers. Maybe behind a thin screen of ice cream, Pelosi has seven wagyu cows.
And I wonder what the best e-bike is.
And I wonder whether it is true that you can drive a long way even in Karenistan if you stay on Federal highways so that I could drive back home all the way from New Hampshire to Wisconsin without being harassed.
And I wonder how people are doing parties for online graduation.
And I wonder what a restaurant would have to look like to lure me in. I have a picture of a table with a white tablecloth on a green meadow with other tables some distance away and the waiters must appear well-treated, not dripping with sweat and anxiety which would make me wonder about the kitchen. And it must have wi-fi. And a chill current of air must not blow on me which might suggest passage through dirty air ducts filled with covid. And the food has to be something I can't cook myself, though that is wide field, very wide. But I think it's above all an absence of crowding and hurrying which would overcome my hesitations.
here's one possible answer,
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/syria-kurdish-talks-united-states-reconciliation-dispute.html
the answer is no:
https://babalublog.com/2020/05/03/cuba-reports-total-of-2744-coronavirus-cases-67-deaths-as-tightly-packed-food-lines-and-crowds-increase/
The Wuhan virus (formally known as SARS-CoV-2) and Biden's trans-social orientation.
Reading the details on these hornets, I learned that they kill people who are allergic to their venom. Ordinary bees and wasps do the same. They are deadly to honey bees, not most people. Media sensationalism.
@ken in texas, here’s a different view:
“ Kyoto Sangyo University researcher Jun-ichi Takahashi said the hornet species earned its "murder hornet" nickname due to its toxic venom, which is equivalent to that of a venomous snake, according to a New York Times piece on Saturday that got social media talking about the horrifying pest. Multiple stings from this large hornet can be fatal. So much so that hornets kill up to 50 people a year in Japan alone.
And now they're in the United States.”
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Reade is a Democrat so she is extra special believable!
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