Posted on 10/31/2020 9:44:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The USDA Agricultural Research Service in Wapato, Washington, will receive 18 live Asian giant hornets so scientists there can develop bait superior to the attractants used this year to lure the invasive wasps into traps.
The worker hornets will be the only live specimens sent to researchers from a nest the Washington State Department of Agriculture eradicated Oct. 24 in a dead tree near Blaine in northwest Washington.
USDA research entomologist Jackie Serrano said that the service will try to chemically replicate hornet pheromones in time for next year’s trapping season.
The department had planned to provide frozen hornets to other researchers, spurring offers from collectors to buy specimens. The tree owner, however, wants to retain the specimens...
The department also encouraged residents to bait homemade traps with orange juice and rice wine. The ingredients are readily available and safe to handle, but they also ferment and soon smell.
Serrano worked with the agriculture department to bait traps with what she described as a generic wasp lure developed by longtime ARS entomologist Peter Landolt...
The formula has been one-half acetic acid (diluted vinegar) and one-half isobutanol, a colorless liquid with a sweet odor. “It’s not something you could go buy at a grocery store or drug store,”
A trap baited with the acetic acid-isobutanol mix attracted the hornet that eventually led entomologists to the nest that was eradicated.
…the department trapped eight hornets in the days leading up to the nest’s eradication...Six of the eight were caught in traps baited with the lure provided by Serrano.
An orange juice and rice wine mix smells different than an acetic acid and isobutanol mix. Serrano said she wasn’t ready to declare the acetic acid-isobutanol bait more effective.
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I read the hornets were all killed, removed, and disposed of. Plus the tree owner had given permission to have the tree removed. This is new that some were trapped alive and the tree owner wants to retain the specimens. Sounds like he is trying to cash in. He needs to add Hunter Biden to his business team.
May I suggest politicians?
May I suggest Democrat politicians?
fixed it!
That kid from the My Girl movie seems like good bait.
Too soon?
Happy Halloween...
Wot??? No RINOs?
Only if we run out of Democrats.
Blaine, WA is on the Canadian border. Are these critters coming in from Canada?
Ummmm.. Isn’t this how the Killer Bee problem started?
Are these critters coming in from Canada?
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Don’t know if they are coming in FROM Canada but lots of them seen in BC too.
DNA analysis appears to indicate two separate introductions, one from South Korea that may have been in the US or BC, and one from Japan that was certainly in BC. The two introductions occurred within a few months of each other.
When I lived in Japan, these suzumebachi (sparrow bees), would come around whenever I was BBQing. They were especially attracted to the meat, but they also were interested in my BBQ sauce. I never had any problems with them. They pretty much ignored anything that wasn’t a threat or food.
The biggest problem in Japan was that they would invade and wipe out honeybee hives.
At least we can see these boogers. They probably don’t propagate as fast as the invisible virus either.
Tie antifags to the trees
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