The bees have learned to dog pile on top of the hornet thus heating the hornet up and killing it.
Go bees!
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Not true. They are not called Murder Hornets. They are called Asian Giant Hornets, also Japanese Hornets. They have been in America for over 50 years already. Just the media trying to scare people again just like they did with the stories of killer bees chasing kids home from school and following people into their homes and waiting outside all night and then attacking them when they went outside the next morning. Used to hear stories like that on the news.
Every entomological source I’ve seen to this point states they were first verified in North American during 2019.
It’s true that dangers to humans were hyperbolized and are confined primarily to allergic reactions, the species represents a very significant threat to honey bee populations and products, as well as to products derived from bee-pollinated crops.
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Pesticides are killing the bees. Asian Giant Hornets have done nothing to the population at all.
They eat bees but only when the bees come to them. They do not compete for the same food as the media will lie to you and tell you that the hornets are stealing the bees food.
Bees eat nectar. Hornets do not eat nectar. Not ever. They only eat meat.
Killer Bee and Murder Hornets…yea the media sure loves to scare people with these scary names.
No person has EVER come forward to declare that there is such a thing as a “murder hornet”. And talk of Killer Bees. That was huge and everywhere in the media in the early 90s.
They are actually called Africanized Honey Bees. They began to naturally breed with regular honey bees and have all but disappeared. Same exact thing is happening with the hornets. There is no mention of them ever being called a murder hornet ever until the media began to call them that to scare people. There is no such thing as a murder hornet. That made up species name does not exist.
A killer bee is actually a honey bee. Sound scary? No it does not. Cant push your agenda of irrational fear if you dont scare people.