Topic: what is happening?
Toodygirl5's photo
Wed 05/06/20 11:24 AM


Murder Hornets that's arrived in the USA.

Bee keeper got stung 7 times by this kind of creature!
:grimacing: Scary

maybwecan's photo
Wed 05/06/20 11:40 AM
Edited by maybwecan on Wed 05/06/20 11:41 AM



Murder Hornets that's arrived in the USA.

Bee keeper got stung 7 times by this kind of creature!
:grimacing: Scary


Insect revolution...the locations of killer bees have grown...roaches that use the insect spray like a body wash now...ants that have gourmet palates and ignore the bait now...incredible but true...

my first experience with hornets convinced me to give them a wide berth...those things were like targeted missiles...


motowndowntown's photo
Wed 05/06/20 11:56 AM
No worries til the covid zombies start climbing out of the graveyards.

Butterfly7's photo
Wed 05/06/20 01:58 PM
motown - it IS a HUGE worry. if these hornets continue to kill our honey bees. as they are now wiping out huge amounts of bee hives...we will have no pollinators. If we have no honey bees, things like broccoli, strawberries, cotton, cabbage, numerous foods will disappear. If you think this is not important, I assure you that you need to re-think it. without our honeybees, we will be product poor. We will never be able to revive the bee population.

Butterfly7's photo
Wed 05/06/20 02:01 PM
mayB - thanks for your input. insect revolution - that says it all. in addition to the Murder Hornets, Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions ... of the locust outbreak, which now affects seven East African countries, they eat every crop in sight, including tree leaves and thatch on huts.

no photo
Wed 05/06/20 04:45 PM
I saw that Toody, about murder hornets. They are killing honey bees, and people.

Butterfly7's photo
Wed 05/06/20 05:39 PM
you folks need to watch this... these hornets have to be stopped.... look what it took to stop ONE.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/honey-bees-kill-cook-murder-hornet-113739412.html

Rock's photo
Wed 05/06/20 07:28 PM
Another strike in China's economic war against
the U.S. .


mysticalview21's photo
Thu 05/07/20 09:44 AM
Edited by mysticalview21 on Thu 05/07/20 09:50 AM
heard this morn about more of this killer bees... I don;t believe they kill you in less you are allergic to bee anyway ... then they might ... need to worry more about them killing the honey bees and those that pollinate our plants...they go after an kill them ... not good ...



facts on killer bees ... below...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=fact+on+killer+bees

TxsGal3333's photo
Thu 05/07/20 10:12 AM
It all depends on what you read for Killer bees have been in the states for many years now...

They attack those that attack their hive not like they are seeking you out like a missile....

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151123-are-killer-africanized-bees-really-that-dangerous


Reputation: Killer bees are huge and are equipped with lethal venom

Reality: Killer bees are actually smaller than regular honeybees. Their venom is also less powerful. They are aggressive, but not in Puerto Rico,

These Africanized honeybees began to spread. By 1985, they had made it as far as Mexico. In 2014, researchers studying the spread of these hybrids across California found they had reached San Francisco.

Early in this invasion, the Africanized honey bees acquired the nickname "killer bees", inspiring plenty of fear and a rash of second-rate bee-related movies along the way.

The truth about killer bees is not quite what these films would have us believe.

The danger comes from the way these bees defend a hive. "Africanized bees respond to colony disturbance more quickly, in greater numbers, and with more stinging," researchers concluded in 1982. This finding has been replicated in several subsequent studies.





Poetrywriter's photo
Thu 05/07/20 02:31 PM
I saw a video of this guy who purposely caught one of these Murder Hornets and let himself be stung on his arm. The guy was definitely in a lot of pain. If someone gets multiple stings from these it can kill a person. Another video showed how these hornets attack the hives of honey bees and kill them by decapitating them. The honey bees got the last say in the matter. When a scout Murder Hornet landed on the honey bees nest the honey bees lured it inside the nest where the honey bees swarmed all over the hornet with multiple honey bees thick all around the hornet. It got so hot that the hornet was burned to death.

Butterfly7's photo
Thu 05/07/20 05:37 PM
the OP was not posting about killer BEES - this is a thread about Murder HORNETS. there is a huge difference. poetry actually stated the facts of my video link accurately.

Toodygirl5's photo
Thu 05/07/20 05:58 PM
This is getting interesting!

Yes, these are Murder "Hornets" new to the USA.