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I've seen the black and yeller hornets of N. America. Have seen the hornets passing through here in Texas as well. Even seen the hives hanging in trees 50 foot off the ground up north. And have seen hornets about the same size as in that pic. But to have an additional species is not good. Honey bees in N. America are having a hard enough time as it is without something hunting them down and killing a nest out.
Some of the beer joints and bars up north have hives collected during the winter hanging above the bars as conversation pieces. It's easy to collect them during the winter as they are all inside and inactive. All you gotta do is plug the bottom hole.
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Originally posted by jerp View PostI’ve seen videos of those things in Japan - terrifying. I wonder how in the heck they got to Canada and Washington state?
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Originally posted by BTLowry View PostExplain
I thought honey bees were a natural, beneficial species and here you say they are invasive?
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Originally posted by Man View PostThats what i was always told as well. However They are not native to the u.s. and compete with native bees. Google makes it a point to note that white people brought them over.
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Two of the worst wasps on the planet from what I have gotten out of watching documentaries, are some wasp from Australia, naturally, everything over there is bad. Then those murder hornets from Japan. I don't remember which is considered worse, both very bad, very aggressive.
I have also been told by my father in law, who is not always exactly correct. That there is some large wasp that burrows holes in trees up in the north west, that is bad news. It's supposed to be very large, makes holes up in the tops of pine trees or other tall timber and not something you ever want to make mad. He used to be a logger up in Oregon many years ago. He said those wasps were not something you ever wanted to run into when you were way up a tree, cutting the top or even cutting a tree down, then cutting or moving it around.
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Originally posted by BTLowry View PostExplain
I thought honey bees were a natural, beneficial species and here you say they are invasive?
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