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Murder Hornets in the US
Oct 27th, 2020 at 1:52pm
 
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‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet


Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations.


BLAINE, Wash. — In his decades of beekeeping, Ted McFall had never seen anything like it.

As he pulled his truck up to check on a group of hives near Custer, Wash., in November, he could spot from the window a mess of bee carcasses on the ground. As he looked closer, he saw a pile of dead members of the colony in front of a hive and more carnage inside — thousands and thousands of bees with their heads torn from their bodies and no sign of a culprit.


The “Murder Hornets” up to 2" long have reached Washington State and British Vancouver just over the border. They decapitate bees and take the bee carcases for the hornet young to eat. Threat to bee populations!

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With queens that can grow to two inches long, Asian giant hornets can use mandibles shaped like spiked shark fins to wipe out a honeybee hive in a matter of hours, decapitating the bees and flying away with the thoraxes to feed their young. For larger targets, the hornet’s potent venom and stinger — long enough to puncture a beekeeping suit — make for an excruciating combination that victims have likened to hot metal driving into their skin.

In Japan, the hornets kill up to 50 people a year. Now, for the first time, they have arrived in the United States.


This gives the US and Canada a small window of opportunity to kill all the few hornet colonies now in their respective territories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html/

The article did not state how or why the “murder hornets” arrived in the US—just random flights or were they in food etc brought into the US from Japan or blown to the North American west coast? Hope they don’t make it down here!
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