Washington state officials destroy first 'murder hornet' nest of the season
Source: The Guardian
Nest located in the base of a dead alder tree about one-quarter mile from where a resident reported a live sighting on 11 August
Guardian staff and agencies
Officials in Washington state said they had destroyed the first "murder hornet" nest of the season, which was located near the town of Blaine along the Canadian border.
The Washington state department of agriculture (WSDA) said it eradicated the Asian giant hornet nest on Wednesday.
The nest was located in the base of a dead alder tree in rural Whatcom county, about 2 miles from a nest the agency eradicated last October and about one-quarter mile from where a resident reported a live sighting of an Asian giant hornet on 11 August.
The site is about one-quarter mile from the Canadian border.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/26/murder-hornet-nest-washington-state
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Man, those things are nasty.
modrepub
(3,467 posts)My state's record on the spotted lantern fly is pretty crappy. Basically my county did nothing except ask the state for money. By then it was too late. You have to be aggressive with these things otherwise they multiply to the point it's impossible to erase them.
Unfortunately, if you see one there's probably a lot more.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)Hell most of Northern Washington state is "rural" or relatively sparse as soon as you step out of Seattle (outside of Microsoft and Boeing).
rpannier
(24,304 posts)Gotta stay on top of them because they can cause a lot of damage
Moebym
(989 posts)I hadn't realized until now how gargantuan these things are.
It's like they'd flown straight from the Permian Period.
Auggie
(31,060 posts)gotta love the names we assign these things
Earth-shine
(3,850 posts)Just kidding, of course.
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2020/06/murder-hornets-maybe-not-the-deadly-threat-we-thought.html
The term murder hornets originally was coined by a few Japanese media outlets several years ago, and a recent New York Times story using that description went viral, causing a bit of panic in the United States, Skvarla said. In their native range, they commonly are called great sparrow bee in Japan, tiger head bee in China and general officer hornet in Korea.
He explained that even the common name Asian giant hornet its most frequently used moniker in English could be confusing, because another large species, Vespa velutina, the yellow-legged hornet, is sometimes known as Asian hornet, and Vespa crabro, or European hornet, is sometimes called giant hornet.
CatWoman
(79,283 posts)catchnrelease
(1,941 posts)They gave it some of the covid vaccine--you know, the stuff that's got nano bots in it so the govt can track us!!