They could buy up all the slaves do it for them.

Think of the sugarcane and cotton fields.

then how do we get rid of the wasps?

It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether

/I win again

time for more hurricanes i guess...

oh and looting goodness*!


*or 'finding' depending on how you feel like profiling folks..

Nothing, that's the beauty of it. They could release Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the wasps.

So that's what happend to those guys...

FTA: "The wasps are the most effective and natural way to combat mealybugs, and because they don't sting, they pose no threat to humans, Odom said. "

So to answer your question, Submitter, the only thing that could possibly go wrong is another lame fark cliche being spewed on the front page.

What could possibly go wrong? Well they can't sting so....

submitter needs to read article.

worldbeater: Nothing, that's the beauty of it. They could release Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the wasps.


yeah, but what then? Badgers?

/Badgers? We doan need no stinkin' badgers!!

TFA says the wasps are small and nonstinging, but do a number on mealybugs, which are a pest affecting crops throughout Louisiana. Hey, wasps are better than expensive, harmful pesticide any day of the week.

o how i wish they could release something that will kill all roaches on earth.


Third Day Mark...

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/lovebugs.htm

they'll end up with elephants, and then they'll have to use mice to get rid of the elephants, and then bugs to get rid of the mice, and then wasps to get rid of the bugs....

they call that the circle of life

Use Spiderwasps. They'll eat anything.

H31N0US then how do we get rid of the wasps?

Easy. Just have a young black family move in down the street.

Woah. That's pretty cool. Especially as they're non-stinging wasps. Not like those nasty wasps that build mud nests. One built a nest outside our door. I made sure the wasp wasn't nearby before getting my bike outside and zipped out of their. I was half a block away, thinking I had gotten away, when the damn thing flew out of nowhere and tried to sting me. What the hell? I wasn't even close to the nest and it still came after me! Needless to say, I sprayed that nest good. I live in Michigan and didn't even know we had wasps like that.

Submitter needs to RTFA

White Anglo Saxon Protestants in a state with so many Blacks and Catholics? Sounds like a recipe for trouble, to me.

/Is it my slow dial-up, or does fark have so many ads now that it takes ten times as long to load a page? Just askin'.

Fart_Machine, here's to you!

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die....

Snake eating gorilla

/winter?

A wasp will puncture the bug and lay eggs in it. Once deposited, the larvae feed on the bug internally, causing it to die.

*fap, fap, fap*

oldebayer: Is it my slow dial-up, or does fark have so many ads now...

Firefox + Adblock. That is all.

crypt0z0ic hahaha

subby astute +1

i hope these wasps grow giant nests that fill up entire volkswagon cars that are broken down in these peoples lawns.

"You'll release the dogs? or the bees? or the dogs w/ bees in their mouths, so when they bark they shoot bees at you?"

I invite and encourage all kinds of natural predators in my gardens, including wasps, hornets, birds, bats, etc.

Me to Monsanto: Suckit!

I used these for fly control cuz my dog has big dumps :p
Really, these work. Flys were eating at the dogs ears bad, buncha dog owning neighbors = lotsa flys. After about a month of the wasps out there all, I mean all the flys were gone.
They have these at Texas A&M that kill Fire Ants.
They are the only natural enemy of those suckers and are afraid to come out of the ground when the wasps are around.

After the flys were gone, I never noticed one of the little wasps. Never saw them ever. Too tiny and move on.

I have to say it, ghogman:

You must be getting a kick out of these replies. :P

ACOZ206

Those wasps sure look ready to kill some bugs.

I love those "What can possibly go wrong?" witticisms.
I love the "trifecta" stuff, too.
Seriously, how many descendants of Mark Twain are here?

worldbeater: Nothing, that's the beauty of it. They could release Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the wasps.

But what will wipe out the chinese needle snakes?

I am always enthusiastically amused by the wit of the Fark posters and headline submissions!

H31N0US
But what will wipe out the chinese needle snakes?

We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat...

so cold for the gorrillas.

emtlawstudent: so cold for the gorrillas.

What are you talking about? I was serious. Who is in that picture?

worldeater - but then we're stuck with the gorillas.... what then?

That's pricipal Seymour Skinner from the Simpsons, dude.

lazymojo

Those wasps sure look ready to kill some bugs.

Its all in the wrist.

ACOZ206
Exactly what I thought.

This is no different than unleashing a swarm of ladybugs onto an aphid-infested field.

Paper wasps are fast, smart, and mean. A friend of mine had them in the hayloft of his barn. He got some of that spray that's supposed to shoot a stream 15 feet or something like that. So he stood 15 feet back and sprayed ... the next thing we saw (from outside the barn) was him coming down from the hayloft without benefit of ladder, hitting the ground running, and leaving the area at a high rate of speed. I guess he was more motivated than the wasps, becuase he outran them. Nobody dared go in the barn for the rest of the day. I don't know what he finally did about the wasps -- probably called a pro.

Thankfully, the kind that parasitize mealy bugs are tiny, stingless, and only interested in mealy bugs. But the story of the guy in the hayloft is too funny not to post.

ACOZ206

Best comment ever. Way to be on top of things.

...gnat-sized wasps... ...the non-stinging wasps...

They're teeny, stingless wasps. I give up, smitty, what could go wrong?

/ME shrugs

DoorFrame: but then we're stuck with the gorillas.... what then?

Well, we figure they'll die off in the winter when the weather gets cold.

Funckmaster Frank

Yup.

argh... emtlawstudent beat me to it...