The US government is giving out free wasps
The brown marmorated stink bug is an invasive pest. To help deal with its numbers, the Oregon Department of Agriculture is releasing its natural enemy: the tiny samurai wasp. There’s a lot of work that goes into it. ▪ Thanks to all the team at the ODA, and to Chris Hedstrom for the macro footage.
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@TomScottGo
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
I'm focusing on just one project here to make the story clearer, but I should point out there are many different projects like this, working with many different species. (And to preempt the obvious question in the title: the wasps are not available to the general public!)
@heathersterling6165
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Can we get these in Texas?
@oscarpm1962
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
tom is so secretly a wasp
@ThangamaniL-w5w
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
👍
@anthonymanson4855
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
OK the invader wasp attacks the invader stinkbug…OK there…but what other native species does it attack and how do you find this out…
@jfxdillon
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
If you guys can kill my stinkbug problem, you have my vote for president of everything, forever
@B_dev
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
cool
@mrglasecki
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Outstanding 🤗
@thebeattrustee
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
This title reads like a line from arrested development
@KRich408
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
As long as we keep importing from other countries we will bring stow aways! Via Boat, Plane and on people and in there luggage! On day we might bring something back from Mars or another place on space that could cause problems for us!
@TheLucidChiba
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Oh good, we've weaponized nightmare creatures.
@BigT5
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Love when people play with nature and then it backfires.
@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
The Oregon state government is not "the US Government".
@Sorcerer86pt
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Of course he wasn't stung… He was their father 😎
@BurningLance2
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
so tiny wasps at the size or maybe smaller than ants that hunt other bugs to lay their eggs, harmless to people and are nectar eaters (at least the adults are) and pollen spreaders…. wish we had those instead of the normal wasps here in Norway
@thebe_stone
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
2 please
@stringercorrales6627
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Brown marmaraded stink bugs consume pear crops, making everything pear shaped.
@glitchy8429
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Ah that’s why I keep seeing these tiny wasps get stuck in my garage.. we used to get a ton of those stink bugs. We also used to get boxelder bugs that would take over my garage every fall that mysteriously stopped showing up in huge numbers. I do see far less stink bugs now, but wonder if this little wasp also took care of the boxelder bugs.
@stephenbrand5661
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Tachinid flies are also parasitoids of many types of pest insects, so they're also used as bio-controls in agriculture.
I found out about them after seeing an insect on my window and noticing a cluster of tiny white eggs on its head.
@slimybob7613
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Ayo, free wasps
@bdb7568
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Put a W on the box to let you know there are wasps in the box
@alienrobotcommando
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
I want some!
@hcree1776
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Never been to the south huh?
@fetalninja6971
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
No. The US government isn't giving Anyrhing away for free. They can't. They have no income or money of thier own. Everything they have, everything they "give away" is paid for with money stolen from the American people.
@redneek24
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
Cane Toad.
@dregenius
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
He's very adamant that he's never been stung by any of these wasps… but how confident is he that he hasn't been……. o v i p o s i t e d …. by any of them? 😮
@TheLostOne172
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
I'm hungry give me 1000 of em!
@mycoinsyourpurse2244
October 25, 2024 at 12:18 am
I hate how the stink bug population has exploded.