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2017/09/07 18:00:43
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Drone 'sprayed with venom' by Asian hornets at Jersey nest
4 September 2017
Venom from the hornets' stings was sprayed on the drone
A fire service drone was attacked by Asian hornets as it was sent to scout out a nest.
It happened as crews used infrared and high resolution cameras to take a closer look at it on behalf of Jersey's Department for the Environment.
Drawn by the sound of propellers, the hornets "swarmed out", spraying the drone with venom, operators said.
It was the first larger "secondary nest" found in the Channel Islands, thought to contain about 6,000 hornets.
The drone, operated by crews from Jersey Fire and Rescue Service, soared up into the canopy of trees near La Crete Quarry, St Martin, to do reconnaissance for pest control as they made plans to remove it.
Frank Raimbault, of Pestokill Environmental, said crews might come back and use chainsaws to get through the tree canopy, before putting a net over the nest and spraying it with pesticides.
The drone is normally used for detecting hotspots and in missing person searches.
Bob Hogge, of the Jersey Beekeepers Association, said: "It is vital that we get rid of the nest in the next few weeks before the queens emerge because there are about 200 queens in each nest and once they're out and mated they're lost to us. And if each one of those makes a nest like this one, very soon the island will be overrun."
Mr Hogge said he and colleagues had been using a variety of techniques to track hornets around the island for the past five weeks.
They marked hornets and measured how long it took them to fly between their nest and specialised bait they had put down to find the nest.
When the beekeepers thought they had closed the distance between themselves and a nest, they called the Department for the Environment, which helped them find it.
He said there could be as many as four other secondary nests on the island, formed after a queen creates enough drones in a smaller initial nest.
Tim Du Feu, of the Department for the Environment, said the hornets were an "environmental risk" to all the island's pollinators, including bees, dragonflies and wasps.
He has asked the public to report any sightings of nests, so they can be removed quickly.
Further nest searches are taking place in the St Brelade's area.
Asian Hornets were already pretty good nightmare fuel before I knew they could spray their venom.
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2017/09/07 18:11:24
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Kill it with fire! they have venom cannons!
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 Unit1126PLL wrote: Scott-S6 wrote:And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.
Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!
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2017/09/07 18:13:22
Subject: Re:Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Courageous Grand Master
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If we outlaw the outlaw hornets, only the outlaw hornets will be outlaws. 
But yeah, I suppose you could call this poetic justice. Here in the UK, we're lucky, because our hornets are generally shy and peaceful.
But if global warming should push bandit hornets north, and should they breed with British hornets... 
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"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd |
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2017/09/07 20:10:51
Subject: Re:Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:If we outlaw the outlaw hornets, only the outlaw hornets will be outlaws.
But yeah, I suppose you could call this poetic justice. Here in the UK, we're lucky, because our hornets are generally shy and peaceful.
But if global warming should push bandit hornets north, and should they breed with British hornets...
That's only because our ancestors got on with it and made sure there was only wussy wildlife left :p
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2017/09/07 21:13:53
Subject: Re:Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
But if global warming should push bandit hornets north, and should they breed with British hornets...
So what? The Hornets would wear top hats and break every afternoon for tea 
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2017/09/07 21:41:27
Subject: Re:Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Courageous Grand Master
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I'm slightly ashamed to admit this, but I think I made a mistake with this article  
I only glanced over this article earlier, so when I read Jersey, my brain registered it Jersey as in New Jersey USA, and not Channel Island Jersey near Britain...
Noooooooooooooooo!
I thought they were thousands of miles away across the Atlantic, not on my doorstep!
Because of global warming butterflies have moved north from England into Scotland where I live. Butterflies I can handle, but deadly hornets?
Feth! Automatically Appended Next Post:
Damn your eyes!
It's ok for you, safe in your ivory tower thousands of miles away, but I'm on the front line here! Automatically Appended Next Post:  Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:If we outlaw the outlaw hornets, only the outlaw hornets will be outlaws.
But yeah, I suppose you could call this poetic justice. Here in the UK, we're lucky, because our hornets are generally shy and peaceful.
But if global warming should push bandit hornets north, and should they breed with British hornets...
That's only because our ancestors got on with it and made sure there was only wussy wildlife left :p
I know somebody who used to be a pest controller for the local council, so at least I've got a plan B 
But on a serious note, Asian hornets in Britain? I never bothered that much about global warming, but recent events in Texas, and now this, makes me think I should start taking it seriously.
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"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd |
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2017/09/07 22:07:12
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Team Wienie is afraid, very afraid.
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2017/09/07 22:49:15
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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Nuke it. The entire island. It is the only way to be sure.
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2017/09/07 23:13:58
Subject: Re:Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Even Godzilla won't mess with those things.
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"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
"You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman." - Twin Peaks |
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2017/09/07 23:20:06
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Man even a normal hornet or bee is a nope for me
Nope nope nope nope nope.
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Unit1126PLL wrote: Scott-S6 wrote:And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.
Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!
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2017/09/08 00:28:54
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Confessor Of Sins
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Just import some Asian Honey Buzzards, they eat those poor hornets for breakfast (and lunch, and dinner) without flinching. Feathers too stiff and thick to sting through, eyes protected by secondary eyelids and adding insult to injury they're immune to the venom anyway. Basically flying hornet-eating tanks.
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2017/09/08 04:47:41
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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But then what will eat the asian honey buzzards!?
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2017/09/08 09:09:47
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Screaming Shining Spear
NeoGliwice III
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Good things are good,.. so it's good
Keep our city clean.
Report your death to the Department of Expiration
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2017/09/08 12:47:43
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Longtime Dakkanaut
On a surly Warboar, leading the Waaagh!
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Spetulhu wrote:Just import some Asian Honey Buzzards, they eat those poor hornets for breakfast (and lunch, and dinner) without flinching. Feathers too stiff and thick to sting through, eyes protected by secondary eyelids and adding insult to injury they're immune to the venom anyway. Basically flying hornet-eating tanks.
Asian Honey Buzzard? Sounds an awful lot like Honey Badger, and frankly, Honey Badger don't care.
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2017/09/08 12:55:37
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Courageous Grand Master
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The Cold War is over, Iron Captain. Let it go. Britain is not Russia's enemy any more
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deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd |
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2017/09/10 15:44:42
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
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It's game over man, game over.
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2017/09/10 16:19:09
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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No, but evil venom-spraying hornets are! If we don't stop them here, then they'll spread and we'll get a domino effect. Can't have that now, can we?
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2017/09/10 23:15:15
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Lord of the Fleet
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 Iron_Captain wrote:
No, but evil venom-spraying hornets are!
If we don't stop them here, then they'll spread and we'll get a domino effect. Can't have that now, can we?
You're just worried they'll spread to Europe and one day a giant larva will burst out of your chest.
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
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2017/09/11 03:13:05
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Confessor Of Sins
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They're still just small buzzards that eat insects. We already have those, as in not-Asian Honey Buzzards. If there's any effect at all it's breeding with the local stock might make the new stock keep a wider range of food. The only reason our local honey buzzards don't eat these invader hornets straight up is they don't recognize them as food. And maybe they are endangered as is, so nature preservation is a good thing if you don't want to fight giant wasps ans spiders all alone.
But I guess it might be easier to teach local honey bees to kill the buggers. In Japan they swamp the hornets in numbers and cook them. Insects actually adapt and learn. Which, on second thought, is quite scary...
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2017/09/11 04:08:03
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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I'm really happy that this got referenced.
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lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote:The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
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2017/09/12 23:08:55
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.
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Ranged biomorphs on hornets, should we be worried now, or when they evolve deathspitters.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
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2017/09/14 03:30:42
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Wonder if they can rig some sort of mini nuke to the drone and create a fleet and wage a war for the skies?
Stomp those bugs!
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2017/09/14 10:00:41
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Peregrine - If you like the army buy it, and don't worry about what one random person on the internet thinks.
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2017/09/14 15:00:06
Subject: Drone attacked by weaponized drones
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
avoiding the lorax on Crion
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 Verviedi wrote:http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/amp25282/flame-throwing-drones/
Have no fear, the Chinese have solved this problem.
Flamer throwers!
Napalm the hornets!
May not be best plan in a tree though
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Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
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