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.
In the West Coast states, there are ‘meat bees’.
To get rid of them:
Take a 5 gallon pain, fill 1/2 way up with water. Put liquid soap like Dawn on top of water in pail.
Tie a chunk of liver on strong string over the water-—but just off the water level-—tie it from one side of pail to other.
Bees go for the liver-—get so full then they try to fly away. They cannot go UP quickly enough, and make a ‘swoop’ down, then try to go up.
They hit the water with soap film & cannot fly anymore at all. They drown in the water.
Went camping near Likely Calif years go. Had 2 such pails around camp with 7 horses & riders. Were there for 3 1/2 days.
Emptied & refilled 2 pails each day...first day twice.
Cheap & easy.
My dad just put the hose to a vac near the entrance of the (ground) nest and let it run for a few hours, then sprayed insecticide into it. And then (as dad would do with green beans he grew) he counted them. 79 bees.