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

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• May 2, 2020Updated 1:30 p.m. ET
   

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.

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

Only later did he come to suspect that the killer was what some researchers simply call the “murder hornet.”

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by Ban Hammer

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Scuse me sir, there's a hornet on your shirt..

 

[yuna628 9,671]

A couple years back we would get a hornet-like insect of a similar looking size and people would talk about seeing it and fearing it was the fabled Asian hornet. Quite aggressive and fond of light at night. They keep telling us it was a European Hornet and that they have traps out for monitoring.

 

Never forget the day down south my husband ran into a Cow Killer. He was like ''what's this weird lookin' bug?" and I'm practically sobbing for him to get the heck away.

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1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

A couple years back we would get a hornet-like insect of a similar looking size and people would talk about seeing it and fearing it was the fabled Asian hornet. Quite aggressive and fond of light at night. They keep telling us it was a European Hornet and that they have traps out for monitoring.

 

Never forget the day down south my husband ran into a Cow Killer. He was like ''what's this weird lookin' bug?" and I'm practically sobbing for him to get the heck away.

you should have told him it's a "Honey don't" bug and then wait for him to pick it up and explain why it's called that.

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11 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

the “murder hornet.”

If it were a Green Hornet, it would be comical.