A Murder of Hornets Too + other crimes against poetry sites
Anonymous
It would be wise to browse the recently deceased due to its life support plug being pulled Part 1 @
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/speakeasy/read/11395/
^ This way you will get a sense of which DUP members will provide you with a worthwhile exchange of information and lively debate or are likely to have Head Lice.
Please use this thread to discuss Murder Hornets, Puss Capatillers, and anything else insect related, especially if it is fucking weird.
You are also encouraged to exercise YOUR freedom of speech by shrieking like a little schoolgirl should you encounter a hairy spider. Yes, that was sexist.
Bite me, Asian Lady Beetles.
I promise no one will be bug-bombed and forcefully ushered away while the Webmiss poses in a beekeeper's outfit in front of a church for a photo opp.
However, behavior of an inflammatory nature requiring Epinephrin will not be tolerated, nor stinging retaliations to such.
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Anonymous
The Murder Hornets Are About to Start Murdering
Just like the coronavirus, murder hornets sure haven’t gone away. And they are about to start their “slaughter phase” if their nests aren’t located and destroyed in time.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/murder-hornets-slaughter-phase-washington-state.html
Murder hornets have been spotted six times in Washington state over the past two weeks, bringing the total number of sightings or captures in the U.S. to 12. On Sept. 21, a family in Whatcom County, Washington, found the first hornet in a paper wasp nest in their home, then deployed a citizen trap where they caught a second and third. The fourth hornet was found dead in a streetlamp by a Washington State Department of Agriculture spokesperson. The fifth was photographed by a doorbell camera, and the sixth was found dead on a porch.
Just like the coronavirus, murder hornets sure haven’t gone away. And they are about to start their “slaughter phase” if their nests aren’t located and destroyed in time.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/murder-hornets-slaughter-phase-washington-state.html
Murder hornets have been spotted six times in Washington state over the past two weeks, bringing the total number of sightings or captures in the U.S. to 12. On Sept. 21, a family in Whatcom County, Washington, found the first hornet in a paper wasp nest in their home, then deployed a citizen trap where they caught a second and third. The fourth hornet was found dead in a streetlamp by a Washington State Department of Agriculture spokesperson. The fifth was photographed by a doorbell camera, and the sixth was found dead on a porch.
Anonymous
The Governor of Washington State has just issued a mandate declaring all of its citizens must wear masks to prevent the spread of Rhymes Disease.
Similar to Lymes disease often contracted from Tick bites, this strain causes its victims to break out into poetic fits of narcissistic rage from the perspective of a rapping insect.
Anonymous
Related submission no longer exists.
Honeybee Haiku
summer’s honeybee
nose dusted bright with pollen
a sweet courier
nose dusted bright with pollen
a sweet courier
Written by LunaGreyhawk
(Miss_Jenn_Leigh)
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I’m following the rule to the letter here, but I needed an excuse to write tonight. Honeybees aren’t weird, but their depleting numbers is scary as hell.
Anonymous
LunaGreyhawk said:I’m following the rule to the letter here, but I needed an excuse to write tonight. Honeybees aren’t weird, but their depleting numbers is scary as hell.
Your poetic offering and overall concern for the honeybee's welfare is well appreciated in these uncertain times. Though Murder Hornets are mainly an Internet novelty and fodder for tabloid blogs these days, they are not to be taken too lightly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
The hornets can devastate a colony of honey bees, especially if it is the introduced western honey bee; a single hornet can kill as many as 40 bees per minute due to its large mandibles, which can quickly strike and decapitate prey. The honey bees' stings are ineffective because the hornets are five times their size and heavily armored. Only a few hornets (under 50) can exterminate a colony of tens of thousands of bees in a few hours.
In 2013, stings by Asian giant hornets killed 41 people and injured more than 1,600 people in Shaanxi, China.
Fatalities from envenomation are primarily related to anaphylactic shock or cardiac arrest. Deaths have occurred as a result of multiple organ failure, typically after a large number of stings.
Your poetic offering and overall concern for the honeybee's welfare is well appreciated in these uncertain times. Though Murder Hornets are mainly an Internet novelty and fodder for tabloid blogs these days, they are not to be taken too lightly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
The hornets can devastate a colony of honey bees, especially if it is the introduced western honey bee; a single hornet can kill as many as 40 bees per minute due to its large mandibles, which can quickly strike and decapitate prey. The honey bees' stings are ineffective because the hornets are five times their size and heavily armored. Only a few hornets (under 50) can exterminate a colony of tens of thousands of bees in a few hours.
In 2013, stings by Asian giant hornets killed 41 people and injured more than 1,600 people in Shaanxi, China.
Fatalities from envenomation are primarily related to anaphylactic shock or cardiac arrest. Deaths have occurred as a result of multiple organ failure, typically after a large number of stings.
Anonymous
Oopsie!
Scientists Lose Giant Asian 'Murder Hornet' After It Escapes From Captivity
Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a Giant Asian Hornet they were following, after its tracker stopped responding.
The hornet was one of several captured by researchers at Washington State Department of Agriculture, who were hoping to track the invasive and ornery bug back to its nest and destroy it. The largest known species of hornet in the world packs a painful sting, though humans deaths from attacks are rare. Scientists are more concerned about the Pacific Northwest’s honeybee population, which could be wiped out quickly by a large enough population of hornets and wreak havoc on the agricultural industry.
The hornet in question was the second to give researchers the slip. Their first attempt at tracking a hornet back to its hive ended after the glued-on tracker came loose. They tried again with dental floss on this most recent attempt, but the receiver went dead after the hornet flew into a thicket. They reported some progress from the failed attempt, however.
“We did get an initial direction of the flight," WSDA Managing Entomologist Sven Spichiger told The Independent. "[But] this one was a lot feistier".
[ . . . ]
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-lose-giant-asian-murder-185929838.html
Scientists Lose Giant Asian 'Murder Hornet' After It Escapes From Captivity
Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a Giant Asian Hornet they were following, after its tracker stopped responding.
The hornet was one of several captured by researchers at Washington State Department of Agriculture, who were hoping to track the invasive and ornery bug back to its nest and destroy it. The largest known species of hornet in the world packs a painful sting, though humans deaths from attacks are rare. Scientists are more concerned about the Pacific Northwest’s honeybee population, which could be wiped out quickly by a large enough population of hornets and wreak havoc on the agricultural industry.
The hornet in question was the second to give researchers the slip. Their first attempt at tracking a hornet back to its hive ended after the glued-on tracker came loose. They tried again with dental floss on this most recent attempt, but the receiver went dead after the hornet flew into a thicket. They reported some progress from the failed attempt, however.
“We did get an initial direction of the flight," WSDA Managing Entomologist Sven Spichiger told The Independent. "[But] this one was a lot feistier".
[ . . . ]
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-lose-giant-asian-murder-185929838.html
Anonymous
Ahavati said:Oopsie!
Scientists Lose Giant Asian 'Murder Hornet' After It Escapes From Captivity
Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a Giant Asian Hornet they were following, after its tracker stopped responding.
The hornet was one of several captured by researchers at Washington State Department of Agriculture, who were hoping to track the invasive and ornery bug back to its nest and destroy it. The largest known species of hornet in the world packs a painful sting, though humans deaths from attacks are rare. Scientists are more concerned about the Pacific Northwest’s honeybee population, which could be wiped out quickly by a large enough population of hornets and wreak havoc on the agricultural industry.
The hornet in question was the second to give researchers the slip. Their first attempt at tracking a hornet back to its hive ended after the glued-on tracker came loose. They tried again with dental floss on this most recent attempt, but the receiver went dead after the hornet flew into a thicket. They reported some progress from the failed attempt, however.
“We did get an initial direction of the flight," WSDA Managing Entomologist Sven Spichiger told The Independent. "[But] this one was a lot feistier".
[ . . . ]
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-lose-giant-asian-murder-185929838.html
That just blows my mind for 3 reasons.
A, with video cameras and other survelliance tech so miniaturized these days, we can't build a miniature harness?
B, destroying them instead of shipping them back overseas seems wrong, especially when as reported in the previous thread insect venom could be used for other purposes such as curing breast cancer, while some cultures would probably eat them as a delicacy or a rich protien source.
C, somebody would be crazy enough to keep them as pets. Until of course they get flushed into the sewer and crawl out of other peoples' toilets.
Scientists Lose Giant Asian 'Murder Hornet' After It Escapes From Captivity
Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a Giant Asian Hornet they were following, after its tracker stopped responding.
The hornet was one of several captured by researchers at Washington State Department of Agriculture, who were hoping to track the invasive and ornery bug back to its nest and destroy it. The largest known species of hornet in the world packs a painful sting, though humans deaths from attacks are rare. Scientists are more concerned about the Pacific Northwest’s honeybee population, which could be wiped out quickly by a large enough population of hornets and wreak havoc on the agricultural industry.
The hornet in question was the second to give researchers the slip. Their first attempt at tracking a hornet back to its hive ended after the glued-on tracker came loose. They tried again with dental floss on this most recent attempt, but the receiver went dead after the hornet flew into a thicket. They reported some progress from the failed attempt, however.
“We did get an initial direction of the flight," WSDA Managing Entomologist Sven Spichiger told The Independent. "[But] this one was a lot feistier".
[ . . . ]
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-lose-giant-asian-murder-185929838.html
That just blows my mind for 3 reasons.
A, with video cameras and other survelliance tech so miniaturized these days, we can't build a miniature harness?
B, destroying them instead of shipping them back overseas seems wrong, especially when as reported in the previous thread insect venom could be used for other purposes such as curing breast cancer, while some cultures would probably eat them as a delicacy or a rich protien source.
C, somebody would be crazy enough to keep them as pets. Until of course they get flushed into the sewer and crawl out of other peoples' toilets.
JohnnyBlaze said:
That just blows my mind for 3 reasons.
A, with video cameras and other survelliance tech so miniaturized these days, we can't build a miniature harness?
B, destroying them instead of shipping them back overseas seems wrong, especially when as reported in the previous thread insect venom could be used for other purposes such as curing breast cancer, while some cultures would probably eat them as a delicacy or a rich protien source.
C, somebody would be crazy enough to keep them as pets. Until of course they get flushed into the sewer and crawl out of other peoples' toilets.
It's a movie waiting to happen! Title it!
That just blows my mind for 3 reasons.
A, with video cameras and other survelliance tech so miniaturized these days, we can't build a miniature harness?
B, destroying them instead of shipping them back overseas seems wrong, especially when as reported in the previous thread insect venom could be used for other purposes such as curing breast cancer, while some cultures would probably eat them as a delicacy or a rich protien source.
C, somebody would be crazy enough to keep them as pets. Until of course they get flushed into the sewer and crawl out of other peoples' toilets.
It's a movie waiting to happen! Title it!
