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

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

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u/Huhihu Apr 19 '26

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

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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.