anything that threatens our bees is a national security issue, seriously
We’ve got around 4,000 species of native bee’s here in the US, the Honey Bee isn’t one of them.
I agree with you on that. Asian hornets are no joke. Just a few can destroy a bee colony in an afternoon. And those things have stingers that are almost a quarter-inch long. I’ve seen some great videos on youtube of people taking out pesky hornet nets, but not many for taking the Asian variety down.
The best video I saw had a guy in a hazmat suit put a tub of water under a nest hanging under the eaves of a house. Then he took a powerful water hose and first made the nest wet so that it sealed itself up. That trapped just about the entire hornet swarm. Then he upped the pressure and the whole thing fell into the tub. Then he swatted any that were in the locale with a tennis racket into the tub of water.
There are some ingenious folks out there who devise diverse and effective ways of taking out hornet and yellowjacket nests.
I counted 6 bees flying pollinating my Horminum Sage Flowers this afternoon.
Look into colony collapse disorder