Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest

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Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the US.

The nest found in the city of Blaine near the Canadian border is about the size of a basketball and contained an estimated 100 to 200 hornets, according to scientists who announced the find Friday.

Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologist Chris Looney fills a tree cavity with carbon dioxide after vacuuming a nest of Asian giant hornets from inside it on Oct, 24, 2020, in Blaine.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.

Washington State Department of Agriculture managing entomologist Sven Spichiger displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him on Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine.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.

 

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They are cross between a stormtrooper and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Get those bad hornets!

The election must be almost over.......Murder Hornets are back

They should work as hard to get the rats nest out of the white house

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Whatever happened to the killer bees?

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This news is very 2020.

You mean you vacuumed up the Trump campaign oh my God

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Take that vacuum down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would ya?

Only in 2020.

Is PETA mad about unfair to murder hornets ?

Aren't these guys from the Walking Dead? WalkingDead

Nice cgi

Teletubbies... only in washington

Enough, 2020!

My gosh, do they really believe this is the only nest? A publicity stunt only

Are these Chinese Hornets?

That’s a bunch in the West Wing too

Would not surprise me if these hornets are really aliens. It is 2020.

Now that they’ve had some practice dealing with dangerous pests, have those crews on standby to clear out the White House on January 20.

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But there's only 15 cases so far...

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Damn looks like if E.T. Came back, just saying

Stupid people. Use a giant blowtorch and vaporize them. Stupid people using vacuum and letting many escape and spread. They prefer to save the tree and spread the murder

Wa State always over the top...Drama

2020...😖

winter would have done them in anyway!

Thank you!!

My God, what a year . . . .

Trump will be blaming China for this.

Nothing good comes out of Washington state, including Seattle.

Holy fucking shit, at first glance I thought we were being invaded by Stormtroopers.

So they sent the Sta-Puft marshmallow men into kill the murder hornets?

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About what ?

I live in NJ and I have 100% seen these here...who do I call?

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Was this located in the CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle?

they murdered these hornets? with a vacuum? in a vacuum?

Did any of the crew complain that wearing PPE was against their rights?

I like the way they cleaned house by 'vacuuming'.

I love to get one (dead) to put in resin for keeps!

FAKE HYSTERICAL NEWS!

What if we just called them something else, like Happy Hornets? Maybe safer then?

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