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Related: About this forum'Murder Hornets': More Nests Suspected After 1st On US Soil Eradicated
The Guardian, Oct. 27, 2020. Scientists removed 98 invasive insects at Washington state site. We suspect there may be more nests in Whatcom county
Scientists removed 98 so-called murder hornets from a nest discovered near the Canadian border in Washington state over the weekend, including 13 that were captured live in a net, the state agriculture department said.
The other 85 Asian giant hornets were vacuumed into a special container when the first nest discovered on US soil was eradicated on Saturday, the agency said. The eradication went very smoothly, managing entomologist Sven Spichiger said. This is only the start of our work to hopefully prevent the Asian giant hornet from gaining a foothold in the Pacific north-west.
We suspect there may be more nests in Whatcom county. The nest was found after the state agriculture department trapped hornets and used dental floss to attach radio trackers. Saturdays operation began at about 5.30am, the team donning protective suits and setting up scaffolding to reach the opening of the nest, which was about 10ft up. The team stuffed dense foam padding into a crevice above and below the nest entrance and wrapped the tree with cellophane, leaving just a single opening, into which they inserted a vacuum hose to remove the hornets...
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(7,888 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)I had 3 times that number in my chimney last year. They weren't murder hornets, but....I thought the nests would be bigger than that.