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Problem is not the simpletons. It's the kiddies who unwittingly drink the stuff not knowing otherwise.

I remember a paraquat poisoning case on one of my ward rounds. Poor chap did precisely that. Took it into his mouth mistaking it for cola (hadn't even removed the cola label) and spat it out without swallowing and rinsed his mouth out immediately but we still could not save him. From memory, and...

See, I said Roundup doesn't contain glyphosphate and it doesn't! 😁 My bad - too many long hours and too many hours working with phosphate salts and working on autopilot in free time.

Assuming it was glyphosphate and not the new Roundup formula.

Trophallaxis.

Tongues poking out is also a sign of chemically tetanized muscle.

Au contraire. I think the physics of biology and the biology of physics escape you.

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I think you are still missing the point about ecology. Velutina needs high insect numbers to survive. Think wet warm marsh lands and wet warm woodlands typical of its native origins. The cultivation window you speak of might work for Velutina if the native ecology compensated for the shorter...

Weather and climate are related but are two different things. Galicia may have had unseasonal weather which impeded Velutina. The UK has a general climate that impedes Velutina. So for example, we have no polistes wasps in the UK because our climate does not support them. I think the NBU have...

Avoiding destruction of native queens especially spring trapping, avoiding use of systemic pesticides and judicial nest destruction restricted to where there is a direct threat to people.

Weather does have an effect on vespines. As a company we did extensive research at monitoring field stations for vespine behaviour and activity in the development of integrated wasp management as a formal discipline which we were first to introduce to the pest control industry in the UK and then...

Hmmm! Nature generally doesn't leave niches unfilled. If our climate and ecology could support Velutina then our native species would have already filled that space. They haven't. And there's very good reason why not and that comes down to biological constraints. Velutina has long been...

Praise where praise is due. I think the NBU have done a sterling job controlling Velutina. It's also reassuring seeing primary nests as late as October because that affirms that Velutina struggles in our climate and ecology. Not a single sign of secondaries in June which gives comfort.

Therein lies the concern. It is mission critical that what precious resource the UK has is deployed effectively. Thankfully the incursion was relatively light. Had it been heavier the NBU might have been overwhelmed.

It may be more descriptive but it's less distinguishing as too many other hymenotperans also have yellow legs some of them more so than velutina. A black thorax is far more descriptive and distinguishing. Black thorax hornet would cause far less confusion.

What a sad world we live in? Any ideas how we should rename the European hornet, the Norwegian wasp, the Saxon wasp, the German wasp etc? And I guess whilst we're reconsidering all these common names perhaps we should consider renaming the Wood wasp as well to make sure we don't miss gender the...

There's a reason AH is called nigrithorax. Black thorax hornet is a much better differentiator IMHO as it excludes more collateral species. Yellow sock black thorax hornet would be too much of a mouth full I guess.

😁 Might be the difference in frame weights not evenly distributed?

Got three legs.