Insect experts downplay concerns about ‘murder hornets’ found in the U.S.

An Asian giant hornet from Japan is held on a pin by Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, in Olympia, Wash., on May 4, 2020.Insect experts say people should calm down about the big bug with the nickname “murder hornet” – unless you are a beekeeper or a honeybee.

“They are not `murder hornets.’ They are just hornets,” said Washington Agriculture Department entomologist Chris Looney, who is working on the state’s search for these large hornets. While its nickname exaggerates the human health threat, experts said this hornet is especially big – two inches long,– so it does carry more and stronger toxin.

Hornet, wasp and bee stings kill on average 62 people a year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “This is 99 per cent media hype and frankly I’m getting tired of it,” said University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy. “Murder hornet? Please.” The new hornets would be different. If they get into a hive, they tear the heads off worker bees and the hive pretty much dies. Asian honeybees have defences – they start buzzing, raising the temperature and cook the invading hornet to death – but honeybees in America don’t.

The concern is that they could wipe out the bee population.

As unbelievable as all the news is this week, this issue has my full attention (and stars in all my nightmares). As someone with a severe allergy to hornet stings I may as well start planning my funeral.

I’m still waiting for the killer bees from the 70’s to kill us all

Like covid was downplayed?

That will not stop the media from peddling constant fearmonging narratives.

Good day. Hope you are well. We are such in a starving situation. If possible, help me with some finance. I cannot bear my current situation. No business no job. Thank you for your cooperation.

And even our sweet little fuzzy-bum honey bees are known to kill people on rare occasions. That said, our bee girls are more important than these bullies, and they must be stamped out ASAP or we could starve.

Our praying mantis population will destroy em.

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