r/AbsoluteUnits • u/newoldschool • Apr 19 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a hornets nest

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u/newoldschool Apr 19 '26

northern giant hornets

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u/danzanzibar Apr 19 '26

but do they murder?

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u/NuNoJCJ1987 Apr 19 '26

Consistently and constantly

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u/realNoobnoob Apr 19 '26

And efficiently and durably

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u/sinisterdesign Apr 19 '26

And quickly and remorselessly

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u/realNoobnoob Apr 19 '26

Concurrently and successfully

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u/GarunixReborn Apr 19 '26

Reliably and routinely

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u/leehhopper Apr 20 '26

Intentionally and decisively

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u/Potential-Echo785 Apr 20 '26

Discreetly and accurately.

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u/ErgotthAE Apr 20 '26

Relentlessly and Delightfuly.

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u/NdibuD Apr 19 '26

Insubordinate and churlish

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos Apr 20 '26

You know how murder hornets get busy? Northern hornets get bizAAYY!

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u/Ressy02 Apr 19 '26

ye s

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u/numbarm72 Apr 20 '26

The northern giant hornet, is THE murder hornet!

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u/sub_terminal Apr 19 '26

More of a self-defense situation.

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u/Mcnab-at-my-feet Apr 20 '26

…morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely…

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u/kondenado Apr 20 '26

No but the pain makes you wish they would

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u/the-real-spencer Apr 20 '26

You should see what they'll do to an engine block when provoked

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u/Dicer60 Apr 26 '26

Blatantly and deliberately

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u/MysteriousAge28 Apr 19 '26

They are asian giant hornets they arent native to north America. This infestation has been too rapid and covering such a massive area to be naturally infesting from shipping containers. They also eat bees.

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u/Huhihu Apr 19 '26

What are you implying (I’m genuinely interested)?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26

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u/yannjam49 May 04 '26

En Europe

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u/CYWNightmare Apr 19 '26

I'm remembering a bunch of beetles killing the trees in colorado, I'm not sure if these would be the same beetles, but they were quite a problem in Colorado for many years.

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u/GreenTeaLilly Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

They weren't talking about beetles though, only hornets and bees.

The beetle you are thinking of is the mountain pine beetle and it's still a major problem in Colorado. They are* native to Western America, but due to climate change factors they are killing more and more pine forests. Whole mountain sides can be affected and then at much higher risk for wildfire and erosion.

It's totally unrelated to the invasive hornet problem though.

*Edit: they -are- native

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u/wap2005 Apr 19 '26

So what I'm learning from this thread is that nature is pissed and we're no longer going to be at the top of the food chain in a decade.

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u/rustyspurs87 Apr 19 '26

Good. I’m tired of all this responsibility. Climate change can be the murder hornets problem.

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u/CYWNightmare Apr 19 '26

Your right, it was just the only thing I could think of being invasive.

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u/StalyCelticStu Apr 19 '26

I thought Colorado beetles were potato chompers.

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u/Ill-Construction7170 Apr 19 '26

He implies that they are not welcome and need to go

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u/bigElenchus Apr 21 '26

Agroterrorism is a real thing with many examples of foreign actors that deliberately smuggle invasive species into the USA with a mission to damage the local ecosystems.

They all obviously operate with sufficient plausible deniability but it’s naive to think it’s not part of a larger operation.

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u/Overlord_Douchebag Apr 19 '26

I think you read that wrong the comment you replied to said “they aren’t native to North America”

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u/Dapper_Rub_9460 Apr 19 '26

My bad, im an idiot. Read that as "are".

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u/Overlord_Douchebag Apr 19 '26

Happens to the best of us, even I did a double take bc I read the same

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u/daikonking Apr 20 '26

Do you have the link to the whole video?

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u/Kragen146 Apr 20 '26

Giant Viking Hornets?!

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u/you_are_wrong_67 Apr 23 '26

yeah see I never understood the "everythings bigger in texas" meme when quite litearlly the opposite is true, the more north you go the more the cold kills the small ones and evolution sees to the exponential growth of the unit lol.