Most People's 'Worst Nightmare' Has Landed in America a murder hornet.

This just popped up on our local news notification. Seems like we are fighting a losing battle this year. Bees and virus.


They are more than 2 inches long and pack a painful sting that can be lethal at times. They also enjoy feasting on honeybees.

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The so-called “murder hornet” has made its way to the United States, and bee harvesters are concerned that the giant Asian hornet, Vespa mandarina, could devastate the country’s bee population.

The insect has a distinctively fierce face with eyes that resemble Spider-Man, the cartoon character, according to The New York Times. The hornet also has tiger-like orange and black stripes that extend the length of its body, and broad wings one might find on a dragonfly, the newspaper reported.

“They’re like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face,” according to Susan Cobey, bee breeder with Washington State University’s Department of Entomology.
 
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I got stung by a regular hornet once... it was the only time I passed out in my life. It hurt so much.. it was summer time, and my friend and I were out walking through the field with the kids and I was wearing a short skirt... and had bare legs... I didn't even see the hornet as it flew up my skirt and stung me at the top pf my leg , so I wouldn't have know what it was that had got me if my friend hadn't seen it .... Jeez that was really painful...and even after coming to, I was dizzy for the whole day . God alone know what getting stung with one of these monsters would be like :oops:
 
We get quite a few wasps and yellow jackets every year, and I spray any nests I see near the house with some good bug spray. If I go out into the forest, I spray my arms, etc., with some Deet insect repellent. Hopefully, our Winter climate will not allow these monster bugs to set up nests here.
 
Just when you thought that you could at least go outside during the pandemic, you now in North America have to worry about...Murder Hornets! :eek:

An invasive species a whopping two inches long, the so-called Murder Hornets kill about 50 people annually in Japan. They can wipe out a honeybee colony in hours, decapitating the bees and mashing up the torsos to take home and feed to their young. Their stingers are long enough to penetrate a typical beekeeper‘s protective suit, and people unfortunate enough to be stung by them liken the sensation to having hot thumbtacks driven into the flesh...

Murder Hornets...because 2020 isn’t done with us yet!

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Ah, the media is at it again. They post the scariest pictures they can find, tell the worst stories they hear (or flat-out make up), and the internet denizens do the rest. And voila! Mass hysteria. Here in Texas you can walk out into a pasture and find six things, at least, that will make your life a misery. Rattlesnakes, cottonmouth, copperheads, fire ants, scorpions, and coral snakes. Red wasps are no fun either.
 
CarolfromTX said:
Ah, the media is at it again. They post the scariest pictures they can find, tell the worst stories they hear (or flat-out make up), and the internet denizens do the rest. And voila! Mass hysteria. Here in Texas you can walk out into a pasture and find six things, at least, that will make your life a misery. Rattlesnakes, cottonmouth, copperheads, fire ants, scorpions, and coral snakes. Red wasps are no fun either.
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Al good reasons NOT to live in Texas........ :(
 

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