We don't put effort into things sooner because the effort and side-effects seem so terrible, but this is short-sighted thinking for an infestation that will bec

We don't put effort into things sooner because the effort and side-effects seem so terrible, but this is short-sighted thinking for an infestation that will become permanent. Right now, those huge killer wasps from Asia are nesting in Washington State. There is a silly ineffective effort to track down the nest, as if there would be only one nest. That won't work, and the pests will eventually spread all across the Americas. We could solve it, at the cost of a short-term ecological mess. Simply dump pesticide from aircraft, covering a 100-mile diameter region, in quantity sufficient to kill every member of the order Hymenoptera. We won't do it, and so both North America and South America will eternally be infested.