07-04-2019, 07:35 AM
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Fearmongerer
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Wasp/yellowjacket "super nests" popping up in Alabama
Things of nightmares.
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Usually, the state's wasp nests are built on the ground and are about the size of a volleyball, housing 4,000 to 5,000 wasps. But the super nests — or perennial yellow jacket nests — can get big as a Volkswagen Beetle and contain upwards of 15,000 of the stinging creatures.
Usually, wasps either freeze to death in the winter or starve due to a lack of available food. But if the winter doesn't get cold enough, the wasp colonies survive.
"And the other thing that's happening is rather than having a single queen start the spring with maybe a thousand or 4,000 workers that made it through the winter, they all start with 35 to 150 queens and each one of those queens can produce, over her lifetime, 20,000 eggs," he said.
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...bama-1.5197104
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07-04-2019, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
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Burn it with fire!!!
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07-04-2019, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by DoubleK
Burn it with fire!!!
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Alabama? I'm down with that.
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07-04-2019, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Alabama? I'm down with that.
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it's punishment from god for their disgusting abortion laws.
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07-04-2019, 08:13 AM
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Well. Finally a reason to wall off and quarantine Alabama that even the most diehard of Conservatives cant complain about.
Sorry America. Time to go down to 49. No better day to do it than Independence Day...
What happened to Alabama?
"The State's Position is that we Officially no longer recognize the Quarantined Exclusion Zone Wasp Infestation Colony formerly referred to as 'Alabama.' We have attempted to clear the infestation by administering a liberal application of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants to the area but The State's estimates of their likelihood of success is low. Good Day and may God have mercy on their souls. Or not. Whichever."
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07-04-2019, 08:22 AM
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First Line Centre
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Alabama?
ROLL TIDE!!
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07-04-2019, 08:44 AM
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The problem is 9 out of 10 Alabamans believe this is a sign they've not done enough to protect the unborn, punish the promiscuous, freak out gay kids and re elect Roy Moore. Better turn it up a notch.
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07-04-2019, 09:26 AM
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A normal nest the size of a volleyball houses 5,000. But one the size of a Volkswagen only has three times that at 15,000? That doesn't really add up.
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07-04-2019, 09:33 AM
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Had never planned on going to Alabama before...certainly won't be now.
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07-04-2019, 09:50 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Normally, my desk
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How do you sit back and watch wasps completely engulf a chair on your patio?
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07-04-2019, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
How do you sit back and watch wasps completely engulf a chair on your patio?
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Nothing you can do if you've already been murdered by the damn things.
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07-04-2019, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
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...until you reach Mississippi.
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07-04-2019, 09:54 AM
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Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
How do you sit back and watch wasps completely engulf a chair on your patio?
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Yeah, when they say "popping up" how long are we talking here? I would be out there with the spray as soon as I noticed it.
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07-04-2019, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Now what to do with those nasty WASPs.
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07-04-2019, 10:12 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Now what to do with those nasty WASPs.
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Well I think this is an unmissable opportunity for that guy with Skunks under his porch...
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07-04-2019, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Now what to do with those nasty WASPs.
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Relocate these nests to Washington.
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07-04-2019, 10:25 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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All these Alabama jokes.... But funny thing is, it's not even the most backward American state I've visited.
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07-04-2019, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by _Q_
All these Alabama jokes.... But funny thing is, it's not even the most backward American state I've visited.
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They cant all be Florida.
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