Apparently Asian and more specifically Japanese bees swarm attacking hornets then suffocate and cook them by raising their body temps to 115+ degrees by beating their wings vigorously until the hornet succumbs.
Murder hornet gets murdered.
I have no idea how these Japanese honey bees stack up with our own in terms of honey production and pollination performance. Could be a huge disruption in our beekeeping industry, our present domestic bees apparently do not respond that way to these things.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Would you look at the size of that dude’s thumb!!!!!!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Bad mofos. Can sting multiple times and each sting carries 7 times the venom of a honey bee sting. Can be deadly especially to those with comorbidities, old folks, boomers, especially. Millenials are exempted.
Time to extend the current shutdown, I’m thinking.
These are not new. I saw one go into its ground nest back in the early 1970's. It was a big scary sumbitch. The nest was on the edge of a horse pasture the neighbor kids used as a baseball diamond.