GBST -a work in progress

The Giant Sparrow Bee is threatening our northern border. Actually, our border and Canada's border, as it is  apparently heading in both directions, north and south. It's invaded us right where we connect.

No one knows how it got here, or how many there are. But it's for sure here. Whether it can survive here and prosper is the unknown. Hard to imagine that it can't, if it can get a foothold. It is native to forests and mountainous areas, and lives in the ground. We have much of both here, and it's the right temperature- and always warming- so it's not hard to imagine.

But there is a chance it can be at least temporarily stopped, and so many people, government entomologists and beekeeper volunteers, having been putting in hours to stop it.  In my small way ( I live 100 miles south),  I've been trying to get a trap design put together for the use of other hobbyists- but really, anyone that is interested. Not my design, just trying to figure out how to make it.

All of this  is overshadowed by  world wide race riots and a pandemic, but is all part of the same fabric I think. So many people, so much anger, so few resources, so many changes happening beyond our control, and nature, as nature does, takes advantage of every opportunity, and marches forward.

Like the virus, it shares an Asian heritage. Like the virus, it spreads quickly as the world is smaller, and climate is changing. Like the virus, it's not a minor threat, but neither is it the Black Plague.  It's just a creature trying to get ahead of the world. Like the virus, is is very good at what it does.

But it's not unusual- animal habitats are shifting radically, and no one born today will recognize tomorrow. All things are shifting. This one however, is truly terrifying- because there is no insect more terrifying than a hornet and its a law that anything terrifying is exponentially more terrifying as it's size increases.  These ones look like evil Pokemon characters,  God help us.

Developing a Giant Sparrow Bee trap:









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