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End times are here: Murder Hornets!

Casey K.

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Is there any information on how they got here and how long they've been here? Importation? Perhaps they hitched a ride on a ship or cargo plane unknown to anyone?
 

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Is there any information on how they got here and how long they've been here? Importation? Perhaps they hitched a ride on a ship or cargo plane unknown to anyone?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/03/us/washington-giant-murder-hornets/index.html

How did they come to the US?
Scientists don't know how these giant hornets native to Asia ended up in Washington state.
They're sometimes transported in international cargo -- in some cases deliberately, said Seth Truscott with WSU's college of agricultural, human and natural resource sciences.
The giant hornet was first spotted in the state in December, and scientists believe it started becoming active again last month, when queens emerge from hibernation to build nests and form colonies.
 

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One Murder Hornet can decapitate 40 honey bees a minute, according to the article I read this weekend, but the bees are not defenseless...

Honey bees can trap a recon hornet in their hive by surrounding it and vibrating at just the right frequency to kill the hornet (think ultrasonic implosion) before it can relay the location of the hive to it's hornet gang

What's next, Tracker Jackers?
 

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One Murder Hornet can decapitate 40 honey bees a minute, according to the article I read this weekend, but the bees are not defenseless...

Honey bees can trap a recon hornet in their hive by surrounding it and vibrating at just the right frequency to kill the hornet (think ultrasonic implosion) before it can relay the location of the hive to it's hornet gang

What's next, Tracker Jackers?
Hi
They actually increase the temperature buy piling on top of each other and vibrating and thats how they kill them.Honey bees can handle slightly higher temperature than the hornet before they die.Not much of a difference tho but just enough.
Regards Konstantin
 

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Why would you want one?
Hornets are not wasps and folks allergic to wasp stings may be completely unaffected by a normal hornet sting.
Some say it is ,but you could say it's from the same family!and you don't have to be allergic to have any affect.maybe be that's with a lot of stings,but that's the same with wasps and anything else with a sting.
 
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