A New Asian Hornet Problem

[JamezF]

Seriously does no one proof read anymore

I don't believe so. Even the BBC News website is quite poor these days.

James

 

[Erichalfbee]

You got to catch one of the buggers first!!!!!!

We need a nationwide strategy

 

[JamezF]

We need a nationwide strategy

Charge chinless upper-class tweed-wearers £1000 per insect to shoot them. If it works, all that extra food will help eliminate a significant problem for society. And given that the hornets can fight back, if it doesn't work, it will help eliminate a significant problem for society

James

 

[The Poot]

I don't believe so. Even the BBC News website is quite poor these days.

James

EVEN the BBC? It’s been poor for news for a long time, so it might just as well be grammatically incorrect into the bargain.

 

[Dekzion]

at least there wouldn't be many arguments about who gets a leg

Jamsz'll be okay he's on a joint!

 

[TomP-]

From the article "They grow on average to a two cm in length and are known for sending out hunting teams to search for prey colonies" https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/invasive...europe-as-researchers-scramble-to-track-down/

 

[JamezF]

From the article "They grow on average to a two cm in length and are known for sending out hunting teams to search for prey colonies" https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/invasive...europe-as-researchers-scramble-to-track-down/

Honestly, I think we did all realise that

James

 

[Erichalfbee]

From the article "They grow on average to a two cm in length

Now you’ve spoiled it all.

 

[JamezF]

Now you’ve spoiled it all.

He has. I was saving myself for that steak

James

 

[Sutty]

So LBC have corrected it finally
Maybe one of their staff is on here!

 

[Penninetrader]

Roast till crispy, break off the head and wings and chomp on the the thorax ... if they are anything like grasshoppers, locusts or cockroaches they are a bit nutty in flavour - you need a drink with them as they are a bit dry - personal experience - don't ask !

Pargyle the jungle boy

 

[pargyle]

Pargyle the jungle boy

It would need a high tensile vine to see me swinging through the trees !

 

[Karol]

It would need a high tensile vine to see me swinging through the trees !

It's the vision of the loin cloth that made me heave.

 

[Ely]

Roast till crispy, break off the head and wings and chomp on the the thorax ... if they are anything like grasshoppers, locusts or cockroaches they are a bit nutty in flavour - you need a drink with them as they are a bit dry - personal experience - don't ask !

I ate loads of bugs while living in Thailand. It was a bit like having a bowl of nuts with a beer

 

[Penninetrader]

It's the vision of the loin cloth that made me heave.

There are some thoughts you should keep to yourself,

 

[0bee-1]

its a new entrant ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_soror

 

[Erichalfbee]

its a new entrant ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_soror

Does it taste like chicken?

 

[Macbear]

its a new entrant ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_soror

I note that a defensive technique is for predated bees to apply animal excrement around the entrance to their residences. This causes me to wonder: 1. will apiaries rush to make wattle-and-daub hives using traditional ingredients or 2. does this imply that that someone is talking a load of bull? Either way, I'm unconvinced that careless muck spreading around/onto hives is going to prove popular.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

sounds like a load of bullsh!t to me.
Quite literally

 

[0bee-1]

Does it taste like chicken?

Don't know but make your tongue tingle I'd imagine