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I am expecting the Trump Regime to take this miracle and use it to raise Murder Hornet colonies or something.
Genetically engineered to be attracted to minorities and immigrants
Fun facts: "killer bees" are also known as "africanized bees". In the 1970s there was great alarm in the US about the spread of africanized bee strains because they're so much more aggressive than European bees. There was even a terrible horror movie about it, but this particular catastrophe never materialized. I had a friend in graduate school in the '90s who was part of a team of scientists investigating the problem. It turns out that if you raise an africanized queen in a temperate climate, the bees she produces are no more aggressive than European bees; likewise, a European queen raised in a hot, tropical climate produces bees just as hyper-aggressive as typical africanized bees. So the entire thing was just bee racism all along. Bracism?
Of course global heating is going to make this a bigger problem everywhere, but fortunately we'll be fucked a lot worse by all the other problems this is going to produce.
Really? This is super interesting. I have been stressing out about when the swarms of murder bees reach me here in the north still in 2020s and you are telling me this is one of the few things I didn't need to worry about...
You're thinking of hornets, not bees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
No, I was definitely thinking about bees so...
Yay, new anxiety!
Nope, they’re just reacting to old news
And I also never heard that it was bracism all along. I always wondered why that faded from public consciousness
Which is scariest? Particularly brutal hornets or swarms of aggressive bees? One bad sting or uncountable stings?
No, no there was a lot of clickbait about this event in the media he's referring to:
I can confirm that - because I live in a temperate region rather close to where those bees started spreading, so we got them rather early. And yet the bees here aren't specially aggressive or something like that, they will attack you if you mess with their hive but that's it, odds are that non-hybrid European bees do the same.
I lived in the Southwest when the africanized bees arrived, and there was indeed a sharp increase in attacks, a couple deaths over a a number of years, a lot of pets getting attacked. Then people just moved on and people learned to not fuck around with hives.
I don't know if it was the queens de-agressing in the new environment or public awareness or just media hype dying down, or all of the above, but yeah, it turned out to be the least of our actual worries in the 21st century.
Adricanized honey bee scare came back in the 2000s, didn't it?
Anyway, we know the adricanized honey bees were a myth, but adricanized honey badgers are a real force to be reckoned with
Really? three times?
Oh, Trump will definitely cook up some "emergency" as an excuse to stay in power.
Stop giving him ideas.
Rfj jr will ban the substance for being synthetic and not a natural remedy
And issue an executive order renaming the European Honey Bee to the American Honey Bee.
Shhhh don't tell them about Italian bees. I want to start a hive when I buy a place. If they know about them they'll surely try to kill them off somehow
Bigly bees. The best.