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Officials confirm 3 new sightings of Asian giant hornets
www.q13fox.com ^ | 10/01/2020 | Staff

Posted on 10/01/2020 6:06:30 AM PDT by Red Badger

Agricultural officials confirm 3 new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Blaine

Officials confirmed three new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Whatcom County, increasing to 12 the number that have been reported there.

BLAINE, Wash. - Officials confirmed three new sightings of Asian giant hornets in Whatcom County, increasing to 12 the number that have been reported there.

The Bellingham Herald reports the total represents the first sightings of the hornets in Washington state and the U.S. since they were first spotted in Whatcom in 2019.

All three recent sightings were found near Burk Road, southeast of Blaine, in late September, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture.

Traps will be set up in the area. The goal is to catch live Asian giant hornets in those traps, tag them and track them back to their colony to destroy them so the invasive pests don’t become established in Washington state.

Usually about the size of an adult thumb, the Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia, is the world’s largest hornet species. They are identifiable by their large yellow/orange heads.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: chat; japanesehornets; killerhornets; localnews; murderhornets
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1 posted on 10/01/2020 6:06:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
"I say the only good bug is a dead bug!"


2 posted on 10/01/2020 6:12:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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Methinks they are already established....

China. The gift that keeps on giving.


3 posted on 10/01/2020 6:15:57 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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4 posted on 10/01/2020 6:16:24 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: EEGator

Love that movie.

L


5 posted on 10/01/2020 6:17:31 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: PLMerite

Love that movie, too.

L


6 posted on 10/01/2020 6:17:48 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Red Badger

Which side will the be on when they get to Seattle and Portland? Or will they just sting everyone: communist rioters and police?


7 posted on 10/01/2020 6:17:58 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Red Badger

Should ship them to Australia.... They’re used to killer kritters... Lol.


8 posted on 10/01/2020 6:18:50 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: EEGator

who me?
9 posted on 10/01/2020 6:20:25 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
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To: Red Badger

2020, the gift that just keeps on giving.


10 posted on 10/01/2020 6:20:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Samurai_Jack

That’s creepy. :)


11 posted on 10/01/2020 6:22:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

Whatcom here now?


12 posted on 10/01/2020 6:23:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Oh, good. More ammo for my under barrel murder hornet launcher.


13 posted on 10/01/2020 6:23:49 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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And why hasn’t woke Washington State renamed itself by now?

It was always too easily confused with DC anyway...


14 posted on 10/01/2020 6:24:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Samurai_Jack

that episode scared the CRAP out of me when I was a kid!!!

“The Zanti Misfits” it is called.

The Zanti race sends their criminals to earth so we will kill them for them. Because they are too ‘civilized’ to do it themselves.

I guess sending them to a planet to be killed is OK.


15 posted on 10/01/2020 6:25:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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16 posted on 10/01/2020 6:40:10 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.)
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To: dfwgator
...should put together a national 2020 calendar burning event Dec. 31.

"Burn a calendar, not a business"

Either that or massive recycle program to turn 2020 calendars into...toilet paper.

17 posted on 10/01/2020 6:41:10 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: Red Badger

When will be called racist for saying “asian hornets”? Will nancy pelousi call them “Trump hornets”?


18 posted on 10/01/2020 6:45:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Not voting is contributing to the death of the Republic.)
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To: Lurker; EEGator

It was good movie, but it had nothing to do with the title or Heinlein’s book, “Starship Troopers”. The only thing the producers used was the title and his name...............


19 posted on 10/01/2020 6:45:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger; Lurker

I read the book, and enjoyed both.
I took them as distinct entities.
I really enjoyed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers, and Stranger in a Strange Land.


20 posted on 10/01/2020 6:50:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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