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Murder Hornets


Brake clean kills all insects, and anything else that breathes through it's skin, on contact.

Add in a Bic lighter and the death is somewhat slower, but more entertaining to watch.

Just sayin'.
 
They’re big enough that target practice with a shotgun might be fun... Nah, I’ll stick with aerosols or get one of those flame thrower things.

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Honeybees and earthworms are invasive species in North America. My woods are full of so many non-native plants it seems another new one shows up every year. In fact this has been going on for 500 years.

 
I'm not certain if there were honey bees in North America prior to Europeans or not, but the majority of the current honey bee population here are of European descent. I wonder how the Africanized bees will get along with the Murder Hornets. They're not very friendly either.
 
They’re big enough that target practice with a shotgun might be fun... Nah, I’ll stick with aerosols or get one of those flame thrower things.

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I find flames to be more efficient for large numbers. The flames won't kill them all, or even most of them, directly, but their wings burn off VERY quickly. The scariest part of flying stinging insects is 100% the flying part. Once they can't fly at you they get a lot less scary.
 
I'm not certain if there were honey bees in North America prior to Europeans or not, but the majority of the current honey bee population here are of European descent. I wonder how the Africanized bees will get along with the Murder Hornets. They're not very friendly either.

Japanese Bees fight dirty:

Beekeepers in Japan attempted to introduce western honey bees (Apis mellifera) for the sake of their high productivity. European honey bees have no innate defense against the hornets, which can rapidly destroy their colonies.[2] Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the uncoordinated defenses of a European honey bee colony, the Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica) has an effective strategy. When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honey bee hive, she emits specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the Japanese honey bees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so gather near the entrance of the nest and set up a trap, keeping the entrance open. This permits the hornet to enter the hive. As the hornet enters, a mob of hundreds of bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and preventing it from reacting effectively. The bees violently vibrate their flight muscles in much the same way as they do to heat the hive in cold conditions. This raises the temperature in the ball to the critical temperature of 46 °C (115 °F). In addition, the exertions of the honeybees raise the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ball. At that concentration of CO2, they can tolerate up to 50 °C (122 °F), but the hornet cannot survive the combination of high temperature and high carbon dioxide level.[31][32] Some bees do die along with the intruder, much as happens when they attack other intruders with their stings, but by killing the hornet scout, they prevent it from summoning reinforcements that would wipe out the entire colony.[33]

Detailed research suggests this account of the behavior of the bees and a few species of hornets is incomplete and the bees and the predators are developing strategies to avoid expensive and mutually unprofitable conflict. Instead, when bees detect scouting hornets, they transmit an "I see you" signal that commonly warns off the predator.[34] Another defence utilized by Apis cerana is speeding up dramatically when returning to the colony, in order to avoid midair attacks.


African bees might not be very friendly but it sounds like the wasps have too much armor for a bee to sting.
 
Japanese Bees fight dirty:




African bees might not be very friendly but it sounds like the wasps have too much armor for a bee to sting.

But what is their fire resistance attribute? And do they have any enchanted armor that may provide a boost to said resistance?
 
But what is their fire resistance attribute? And do they have any enchanted armor that may provide a boost to said resistance?
I hear that their wings are made of Nomex.*











* I did not hear or read this “fact”... I completely made it up.
 
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It’s time to build the worlds largest bug zapper.
 
It’s time to build the worlds largest bug zapper.
quick and helpful fact:

if you lick a bug zapper it will cure you of the coronavirus.

AJ
 
I hear that their wings are made of Nomex.*











* I did not hear or read this “fact”... I completely made it up.
Well I have Bumbleflex.
 
My property is full of these... bring on your silly "murder hornet"... :rolleyes:

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