VA Tech Experiment: Polar Vortex May Decimate D.C. Stinkbugs In 2014 112
barlevg writes "Each fall, a team led by Virginia Tech Professor of Entomology Thomas Kuhar gathers brown marmorated stink bugs from around campus and plops them into ventilated and insulated five-gallon buckets designed to simulate the habitats in which the bugs naturally wait out the winter. While previous lab tests have shown the insects capable of surviving chills of -20 C, last month's polar vortex proved too much for the little guys, with only 5% surviving the sustained cold conditions. This suggests that the DC area's population of stink bugs and other overwintering insects should be much lower come spring than in previous years."
Hurray? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hurray? (Score:2, Funny)
Politicians eat stinkbugs
I KNEW they were cannibals!
Re:Hurray? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:decimate means to reduce by 1/10 (Score:5, Funny)
[disclaimer: I'm not the OP you responded to.]
While I agree with what you said, I think it's important to note that the guy you responded to might have been advocating the S.I. units of slaughter:
micromate = kill 1/1000000
millimate = kill 1/1000
centimate = kill 1/100
decimate = kill 1/10
dekamate = overkill by 10x
hectomate = overkill by 100x
kilomate = overkill by 1000x
megamate = overkill by 1000000x
oh, and don't forget the binary versions:
kibimate = overkill by 1024x :^D
mebimate = overkill by 1048576x
gibimate = overkill by 1073741824x (aka instagib)
p.s. I hope they at least dekamated those stink fuckers.