"Murder hornets"

international news
'Murder hornets' in Washington state threaten bees and whip up media swarm

National news
‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet

Local reporting (with photos of these bad boys)
Invasive giant 'murder hornets' buzzing to life in Wash. as spring arrives

yeah, I know - fire ants - right?

A new invasive species thanks to our friends in 'asia'

Asian giant hornets nest in the ground. They are typically dormant over the winter, and are most often seen from July through October.

Like Killer Bees, too many stings can be fatal.

 

and they love to honey bees

 

I don't usually subscribe to conspiracy theories, (here comes the but) Emerald ash borer, Asian long horn beetle, now murder hornets. Not to mention Covid 19. Does this look deliberate? First thought is Chinese, would Islamic planners use these tactics?

 

Maybe not deliberate, but certainly a side-effect of so much trade with China

 

Right up there with another invasive species, the Asain Carp! Looks like China is trying to hit us from all angles.

 

They’ve been serving Human Beef in their restaurants for years. Nobody noticed but me.

 

Once is statistics, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action.
How may more times before it's not an accident?

 

Yea, I remember how killer bees were going to be the end of us all.

 

Stay Inside!

 

Well, We already have these Killer bees here, both the Asian giant, and the African killer honey bee. we also have the Asian earth worms here which I found to be most excellent fishing worms! We call them our Racing Worms, they are damn hard to catch, and are especially nasty when you cut one into smaller pieces to bait a hook, they really fight good!

 

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I'd like to order some murder hornets for my next door neighbors. Their kids are outside screaming all day long anyway. Might as well give them a legit reason for it.

 

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I had these here in East Tennessee in the spring of 2017. I had set up a top bar hive I had built a few days before and was just checking a day before I added my bees to it. There was one of these Asian hornets in there and in the process of building a wasp nest. There was a lot of flaying and screaming as it flew up and dive bombed me twice as I frantically tried to drive it away. It was huge and later I looked online until I found out what it was. It came back the next day, but I was armored up and had a swatter and ran it off again. A few days later I was digging holes for tomatoes and found some similar sized and marked hornets in the ground. Of course nobody believes my story, and I don't have a diploma hanging on my wall, so...

 

I'm allergic to insect bites and if these things ever get to Alabama I'm gonna start carrying a shotgun loaded with #9 birdshot everywhere I go!!

 

Pfft,I'll figure out a way to cook em'
May throw em' in some crab boil with potatoes,sausage,and shroons!!!

 

Not just China. Call it globalization. South America has some wonderfully uncontrollable species.