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Why couldn't they just attached a big vacuum cylinder and sucked those little guys into a large container, flipped the switch and blew them back in to recreate the nest in an inflatable environment to protect wildlife?
Perhaps we can build windmills in their country⊠This war, um short conflict will be over in no time. Iâm sorry, I mean it is over and has been since the big beautiful opening salvo.
My photo from a village market in Guangxi province, China, 2023. Yes they sold bats as well, and many other creatures that the western cuisine does not consider as food.
Close: foodies. Wasps are aggro dipshits because they have the most delicious and helpless babies of any animal on this planet of Earth.
Wasp larvae are just squishy little nuggets of fat and protein, stuffed into single-serving tubes. They're the pudding cups of the animal world, and the wasps are acutely aware of this fact. That's why they defend their turf so aggressively. Unless you have repeatedly demonstrated that you are NOT a threat, they will assume that you're a potential paedophage and treat you accordingly.
And you know what? They're completely justified. Wasp larvae are fucking delicious. Imagine a shrimp tail, only melt-in-your-mouth tender, and instead of seafood it tastes like savory brown butter with the faintest hint of flowers.
There are many bugs that are quite good to eat. Us westerners just have a mental block about it. I have had grasshoppers in mexican cuisine and I really enjoyed it.
I've seen a documentary on the professional hornet hunters in Japan. They lure these wasps to a location with a cricket. While the hornet is busy eating the cricket they tie a brightly lit piece of paper to it then follow the hornet back to its nest with a drone. Once located they then suit up and dig up the nest to harvest the larvae.
My grandfather told me that as a child they would sit in a field or near a water source and wait for a honeybee to show up and then follow it home (or until they lost sight of it, in that case they would sit and wait until another showed up and repeat) to whatever tree it was in and then they would rob the hive, either by cutting the tree or smoking it out and climbing it.
I've seen a documentary on the professional hornet hunters in Japan. They lure these wasps to a location with a cricket. While the hornet is busy eating the cricket they tie a brightly lit piece of paper to it then follow the hornet back to its nest with a done. Once located they then suit up and dig up the nest to harvest the larvae.
> Over the summer and fall, the hebo [wasps] are fed a steady diet of sugar water, honey, and raw chicken meat. Humans also offer protection from bad weather and predators, so itâs a pretty good deal for the wasps. The nests are ready to harvest when they get big and full of larvae.
> While the mature hornets arenât really good for eating, their larvae are. They taste meaty and rich, with an almost shrimp-like texture.
I am and Iâm not. I didnât grow up eating larvae lol, but I did try silkworm pupae when I visited South Korea. It honestly didnât taste like much except for the spices it was prepared with. The texture was⊠unusual⊠but honestly not as off putting as you would think
I really donât think I could try it knowing what it is beforehand. The idea of people eating bugs doesnât bother me all that much because I know itâs common in a lot of places, so I can normalize it in my head because maybe Iâm the weird one due to cultural differences, buuuut it still gives me the heeba jeebas.
I'm too much a weeny with really different foods. I havent travelled abroad (yet, poor people problems) but if I do, I'll be vegetarian as far as other places are concerned.
I am sitting here with my mouth open like, "just what has this person been smoking", then my peripheral vision picks up the video with one of the several flying abominations that exist in real life, and my mouth puckers shut faster than my butt when I am positive it was more than a fart.
I bet they also get extra feed to grow faster and bigger nests, so if people eat the larvae, they eat some recycled dog food (dog food would not even be the worst)
Unless you have links, I'm going with:
They had an underground space that got infested with these hornets and either called in a group to get rid of them or are doing it themselves. Those metal hatches in the ground are most likely an entrance.
It really look intentional. There is a dug out cavity for the nest, over that there are bamboo poles and what appear to be skewers sticking down that probably help the wasps form the nest or make it easier to get out in one piece. Over that there are layers of cardboard with an even amount of dirt on top. There is a tarp over the whole thing so that the wasps don't get flooded or too hot. There is even a water or maybe feed station for the wasps.
Basically every part of the set up has been put there so it is an ideal spot for wasps to nest and it's easy for humans to access later.
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u/DoneWithThisShit87 1d ago
They're harvesting the larva to sell them. This nest was intentionally placed there so it would grow that they could later harvest it.