You said it. Every spring I check my fences and eaves for new wasp nests and wipe them all out. I think I took down two dozen just in the past month and it feels good to do it. I do make sure I do it early in the morning while it’s still dark to make sure I get every last one of them.  I do leave regular bees alone…

Naw, Cicada Killers are solitary females and have no interest in dealing with anyone. Source - had them drilling into my backyard and never a problem, plus read a bunch from those who study them and they said the same.

Evil you say? Those fuckers have put me in the hospital twice.

Yes, I was coming here to say the same thing.  Fuck yellowjackets, and if the murder hornets agree to only decapitate yellowjackets, then I’m ready to declare them as allies.

The only species on your list that shouldn’t be killed is the bumblebee. Every other one should indeed be killed. Wasps and hornets are among the the most horrible creatures on the planet. Just because they wont murder you doesn’t mean they’re deserving of mercy. I’m sure there’s a couple examples of beneficial ones,…

Sorry but Hornets are assholes. Even the regular ones. I personally am on my third can of spray this year. If they stop building nests on my house and garage, I’ll stop decimating every nest I see. PS: Bees can have the run of the place.

I don’t understand how anybody could mistake a bumblebee for a hornet. At all. In any way, shape or form.

Killing yellow jacket queens is the whole reason I spray canned poison into their nests. Getting one before she sets up camp is a win without much of a fight.

You should definitely kill yellow jackets, those things are evil

That is a fair point, but similarly I don’t think killing single bees hurts much either. I can identify between them, because I like bees and I think wasps are the devil and I want to know which is which, but I suppose many do not.

It would help if you, oh I don’t know, posted an actual picture of the murder hornets in your 2 articles. Only showing the non-murder bees just cements their image into our brains when you say “murder hornet”.

Counterpoint: you can kill as many non-bees as you like, because wasps are assholes and they need to get out of our vacation/home areas. There are so many of them elsewhere that we can’t make a dent in them anyway. Yellowjackets in particular are going to infest more places as climate change moves them north.

Reminds me of a story I read about a programmer who got a vanity plate reading ‘NULL’. Thought it would keep him from getting tickets. Instead he got a lot of tickets sent to him because it assigned his address to every fake or illegible plate number in the system. Here’s an article about it that even mentions the…

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This. I really wish David or Andrew were writing all the content here. They seem to be the only balanced automotive viewpoints of the writing staff. Its like everyone else hates cars or car culture. I have always loved Jalopnik for its irreverence and counter culture attitude, but it seems like most of the writers…

This is a Truck Yeah article right?

That's ok. That page kind of stinks.

There are reasons why one can legally change ones name, the idiocy of ones parents is no reason why one cannot be known as Duncan Jones.

Wonder if it will ever get to the point where someone could buy one of these like they do the old WWII aircraft? As a kid there was no way you could prove to me the F-14 wasnt the shit.