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The voracious Asian hornet – the invertebrate symbol of our dark times (www.theguardian.com)

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We live in dark times. Storm clouds gather over our nations, politics and planet. Let rip the end of days. We’re entering an era of suffering, tyranny and predatory, invasive wasps. So vote baddie. Vote end times. Vote for the Asian or yellow-legged hornet.

Like Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and Lee Anderson, this mortal creature is both terrifying and weird in its implausible lust for power and domination.

Native to south-east Asia, the yellow-legged hornet’s European conquest began in 2004 when a single mated queen stowed away in a container-load of pottery that arrived in the port of Bordeaux from China. Incredibly, it is believed that the entire rapidly spreading European population of yellow-legged hornets is derived from this one individual.

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