Posted on 05/06/2020 5:11:07 AM PDT by weezel
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/04/marc-siegel-murder-hornets-tucker-carlson/
I think we have had these for years. Big, yellow hornets? I saw one once about 35 years ago. Bunch of us old time coon hunters sitting around one Sunday afternoon under a shade tree talking when suddenly, we all heard and say a hornet hit the ground and had a horsefly in its clutches. As quick as they hit the ground that hornet SCREWED that horseflys head off, and then flew away with the body. We all saw it. I was amazed but the other guys, all older than me told me that was the only thing them hornets were good for, they ate stuff like the horseflies.
These hornets won’t hurt you.
As long as you remain inside, practice SD by staying at least 6 feet from them. Wearing a mask, they won’t be able to sting your face.
Remember, if you are outside in a gathering of 10 or more people, these hornets will attack!
We’ve got tarantula hawks here that are way bigger than those hornets.
The large Asian Hornets eat bugs, but also little birds and mammals. These aren’t your horsefly eating hornets. But, interestingly, their sting is rated about a 2 on a scale of 4.
They will eat your beehive in an afternoon.
We got hornets in the upstate of SC which ain’t too much smaller than the Asian giants. Got stung by one once, felt like someone drove a nail through my hand.
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Maybe the hornets will turn into Penguins some day.
Those hornets are European Hornets (another invasive species) and look similar to the Asian ones.They have been here since the 1960’s or earlier. The new ones are a bit bigger, more aggressive and attack en-mass. They can wipe out a colony of Honey Bees in an afternoon. The bees can handle one or two, but not a full on attack.
“They will eat your beehive in an afternoon.”
I don’t want these hornets, but I wish they would take care of the beehive in the house of my next door neighbor. He has had professional bee removal services involved, but the bees are still there, they go in and out of the corner of the house, and my dogs have been stung by them. If any Freeper has had a successful bee removal, I’d like to know how it happened.
Are they honey bees or wasps?
If they are in wasps, they need to be “bombed” and the opening sealed.
If they are honey bees, they might need to tear the wall apart. There have been cases where the comb fills up the space between walls. Again, someone can come move the bees...but as long as the honey is in the walls you will never be rid of them completely—it would be like leaving the doors open on a fully stocked Walmart in a bad neighborhood.
My Dad was a bee keeper and he kept a hive in the back yard. They would get into my room and settle on my blankets. Nothing like rolling over in the morning and getting stung!
As the years went by, I came to believe it was part of his scheme to get me to move out of the house when I got out of college. It worked. Ha Ha.
My understanding according to the media (?), is that the venom fro a sting is 7 times (7 X) a regular bee sting.
They attack apiaries, most insects and grubs, and feed the insect thorax to their larva.
They are known to take down small birds .
Usually IF they remove the queen bee the workers will go with them.
I spray Permethrin around my property to keep away ticks and mosquitoes here in NH. I am not trying to raise bees here.
This is what the Google states:
Permethrin is extremely toxic to bees. Severe losses may be expected if bees are present at treatment time, or within a day thereafter (7, 12). Permethrin is also toxic to wildlife (9). It should not be applied, or allowed to drift, to crops or weeds in which active foraging takes place (4).
It is also bad for FISH and CATS. I do not own either. I have no close neighbors.
This is what I buy:
https://www.solutionsstores.com/permethrin-sfr-insecticide?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI04vH76qf6QIVweDICh2_fwCcEAQYBSABEgJB3PD_BwE#156=944
I mix it and apply with tank/back pack pump sprayer.
The Queen from any hive has a personally identifiable scent, called a pheromone.
The pheromone is like a perfume/ scent that the entire hive shares; the pheromone also identifies any bee that doesn't belong to that hive and queen.
Invaders who don't have that scent are immediately attacked to protect the hive numbers, honey, and the larva.
Complete hive removal will only occur after the colony has been removed, and the pheromone/scent is totally removed.
Since complete removal of the scent involves wall reconstruction, most homeowners are not willing to incur that expense.
The beekeeper is removing the bees to incorporate into his own apiary; if that area isn't sanitized and the pheromone remains, a new infestation could occur within 3 years.
You also have to sanitize the point of original entry, of re-infestation is just a matter of time (due to the scent).
That was a cicada killer.
Not agressive but don’t get stung by one.
Hurts a he’ll of a lot worse than a murder hornet
Its not the sting that they use to kill. They have mandibles that look like pruning shears.
I got the “2” out of “4” from a video that was posted on Zero Hedge the other day. They were showing an Asian Hornet that was yellow, about three inches long, and looked nasty as hell.
This could be a different variation of a similar species.
Regardless....I wouldn’t want one in my back yard.
I use that on my plants when they get little bugs on them. If we are talking about the same thing, it smells nice.
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