Tracking the 'Murder Hornet': A Deadly Pest Has Reached North America

[mfcorey1]

LAINE, 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.

“I couldn’t wrap my head around what could have done that,” Mr. McFall said.

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

[marybourg]

1. Just what we needed. Not.

[callous taoboy]

2. Dang it. Red wasps are bad enough.

They are super aggressive. Last Spring one tagged me deep inside my nose as I was walking down the steps of my back porch. I felt pain in my sinuses for a couple of weeks.

[LizBeth]

3. I just read this. I am bummed. I had hoped it like hot and humid, like Florida.

Not cold and rainy in the NW.

[samnsara]

4. We have our own version of the cow killer wasp of the South!

..Im arming myself with wasp spray...

[montanacowboy]

5. Jezus H Christ

My sister will have a heart attack if she ever sees one of these things. She is allergic to bee stings and this one looks like the mac daddy of them all. I sure hope that they can run them down and exterminate them. This is all the poor honey bee population needed.

[Delphinus]

6. Yikes!

[maxrandb]

8. They warned us about these when I was with the Navy in Japan

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Said if you disturbed their nest, crouch down, stick your head between your legs and kiss you ass goodbye!

[Celerity]

7. 2013 - Swarms of giant hornets have killed 42 people in Shaanxi Province and injured more than 1,600

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/world/asia/crews-seek-to-destroy-hornets-that-have-killed-dozens-in-china.html


Vespa mandarinia

[Karadeniz]

9. Lord, what next!

[Celerity]

10. water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and

the killing of firstborn children.

If you buy into a certain religion, which I do not.