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Mysterious, venomous King of Wasps discovered in Indonesia (geek.com)
38 points by ukdm on March 29, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



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.



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


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.


To get an idea of how large a 2.5 inch wasp is - check this.

http://pective.com/pic/garuda-wasp


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.


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


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




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