Sven Spichiger, Washington State Department of Agriculture managing entomologist, displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. Scientists in Washington state discovered the first nest earlier in the week of so-called murder hornets in the United States and worked to wipe it out Saturday morning to protect native honeybees.
The state Agriculture Department had spent weeks searching, trapping and using dental floss to tie tracking devices to Asian giant hornets, which can deliver painful stings to people and spit venom but are the biggest threat to honeybees that farmers depend on to pollinate crops. The tree will be cut down to extract newborn hornets and learn if any queens have left the hive already, scientists said. Officials suspect more nests may be in the area and will keep searching. A news briefing was planned Monday on the status of the nest.
The real threat from Asian giant hornets — which are 2 inches long — is their devastating attacks on honeybees, which are already under siege from problems like mites, diseases, pesticides and loss of food.
Please stop calling Asian giant hornets MurderHornet They're not even called that in Japan. Their name is the Asian giant hornet or Vespa mandarinia. As an institution that is noted for publishing the AP Stylebook, please use the correct name. journalism
Hope it never ends like this. MurderHornets
Hoping that Dyson makes a murder hornet attachment
It baffles me that people think we call them murder hornets because we think they kill humans, no it’s because they murder bees, they do pose a threat to humans tho as an annoyance but pose a threat to bees existence
wow tersseract :D
Thought it was a myth that they spit venom? Isnt that only the larvae that spit up acid which the adults feed off of?
IDK, that guy doesnt look like he’s in regular hornet/ bee keeping attire. He looks like hes about to go to mars! the stings must be pretty fierce! 😬
That tube is rated to hold only two things, hornets and the tesseract. mcu marvel
Giant Flying Murder Hornets. Not good.
DysonVacuumSuck
I’m going to take this as a sign that 2020 is turning the tide. Don’t take this away from me.
I would guess our relentless spraying of pesticides is a bigger threat to bee populations than murder hornets.
Thank God there are people brave enough to vacuum murder hornets.
Whew!
Just gonna go suck some murder hornets babe, be back later.
Chances that they were escapees from a secret USDA test group. It's like no one every watched the X-files. 🤣🤣🤣 This is probably a misdirect for something else.
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none of them knew Department of Agriculture really meant Space Troopers
But there good to eat, they'll give you a good buzz is my understanding from the Japanese.
MurderHornets 😂😂😂😂😂
shaunwhitcher
White looks kinda sus...
Did they call in an air strike? 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'.....
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You're supposed to be raking the forests, not vacuuming the trees.
This looks like the canister Venom was retrieved in.
They should leave the dead murder hornet carcasses out there just to show the other murder hornets what we'll do to them
Trump did so well with Covid we forgot all about these little f’ers.
That would make a great drone payload.
RoundUp also weakens and kills bees - but the USDA and EPA refuse to ban neonics.
Now send them back to space.🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘 moon phases.
I think one of those hornets must have gotten a SOS call out before it got sucked into that vacuum thing, because look 👀
They look a lot like the European Hornets that we have in Western Carolina. The only true Hornet in the U.S.
It’s just 1 nest and is under control, will be gone by Easter
communist china sneaked them in and released it in the US
This is 2020 in one photo grab.
Well done WA-AG. Now we're counting on you to come up with a ROOMBA-DRONE.
honeybees are pretty important tho
That thing work on Antifa?
Get your Hoovers ready
Oh, my. I don’t need them near my first hive. 😱
terpiecat Maybe WA Ag can eradicate covid.
'The nest was found after the state Agriculture Department trapped some hornets this week and used dental floss to attach radio trackers to some of them.' Wow!
Don't drop it ;-/
First rule of murder hornets is not to murder murder hornets 🐝
I did not have “vacuuming murder hornets” on my 2020 BINGO card. 🐝
Call it what its actual name is that is Asian Giant Hornets...there are actual people out there who think these can kill humans with that name you lot use
Losing battle. Don’t waste the time or money. Come down south and see the kudzu and you’ll know why.
I’m sorry but they can spit venom?..
that guy dressed up like those Hornets have covid
Oh my god
Good,put the god damn FLAMES right to them..!!
ChinaVirus
Stop calling them murder hornets for clicks. They are Asian Giant Hornets, and they pose no threat to humans.
Have we tried this at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
YEA!!!! CLAPPING!!! Good work!
The threat to honey bees is its threat to humans.
Thank goodness! Washington State's Ag department workers + leadership deserve our sincerest gratitude. 💛🧡❤
Are they sending them back to Asia?
Billyhottakes 👀 hot seat murder hornets
Now they'll be taken to a lab where they will create nuclear hornets.
BarstoolBigCat PFTCommenter
I had a big welt on my arm from one of those things
Thank you President Trump!
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