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Mysterious, venomous King of Wasps discovered in Indonesia

38 points by ukdm 15y ago

stcredzero 15y ago
Whatever geek.com and extremetech are doing to "adapt" their site for the iPad is just awful! This one cut off the last paragraph and a half and my attempts to swipe to the rest of the content dumped me into an advertisement, then another article. In contrast, the "desktop" article works just fine for me on the iPad, thanks. I thought setting fake browser info went out in the 90's. On Opera Mini, the whole site is just a blank page, BTW.
checker 15y ago
I think it's amazing that we continue to find new species here on land without going anywhere "extreme". It's rather humbling, actually.
- jodrellblank 15y ago
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5726yg7-5js http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5726yg7-5js - BBC QI on "the best place to find an entirely new species".
pragmatic 15y ago
Non blog-spam version: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120327-new-species-wasps-king-bugs-indonesia-animals-science/?source=link_tw20120328news-wasps http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120327-new-s...
Lost_BiomedE 15y ago
In Texas, Cicada Killers used to freak me out as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus
- CWuestefeld 15y ago
  I ran into these when camping a couple of years ago, and they freaked me out as well: a wasp as big as your pinky, with wings beating hard enough that they'd blow around the sand when close to the ground.. And they lived in burrows that happened to be under the campsite's firepit, where I was cooking! But a ranger explained to me what they were, and over the rest of the weekend they never actually bothered us.
ptm 15y ago
To get an idea of how large a 2.5 inch wasp is - check this. http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp
- sciurus 15y ago
  Note that pective.com will show you an incorrectly sized image until you tell it your monitor size. I'm surprised they don't require you to enter that before showing the image.

38 points by ukdm 15y ago

Whatever geek.com and extremetech are doing to "adapt" their site for the iPad is just awful! This one cut off the last paragraph and a half and my attempts to swipe to the rest of the content dumped me into an advertisement, then another article. In contrast, the "desktop" article works just fine for me on the iPad, thanks. I thought setting fake browser info went out in the 90's. On Opera Mini, the whole site is just a blank page, BTW.

checker 15y ago

I think it's amazing that we continue to find new species here on land without going anywhere "extreme". It's rather humbling, actually.

jodrellblank 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5726yg7-5js http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5726yg7-5js - BBC QI on "the best place to find an entirely new species".

pragmatic 15y ago

Non blog-spam version: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120327-new-species-wasps-king-bugs-indonesia-animals-science/?source=link_tw20120328news-wasps http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120327-new-s...

Lost_BiomedE 15y ago

In Texas, Cicada Killers used to freak me out as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

CWuestefeld 15y ago
I ran into these when camping a couple of years ago, and they freaked me out as well: a wasp as big as your pinky, with wings beating hard enough that they'd blow around the sand when close to the ground.. And they lived in burrows that happened to be under the campsite's firepit, where I was cooking! But a ranger explained to me what they were, and over the rest of the weekend they never actually bothered us.

ptm 15y ago

To get an idea of how large a 2.5 inch wasp is - check this. http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp

sciurus 15y ago
Note that pective.com will show you an incorrectly sized image until you tell it your monitor size. I'm surprised they don't require you to enter that before showing the image.