It's no little thing, to have an invasive species establish itself, that kills honey bee hives in short order.
We depend on honey bees to pollinate a large percentage of our food crops.
Asian hornets are no big risk to people, directly. But they sure as hell are a risk to our agriculture...
The efforts to find nests has been getting fairly regular coverage in the news hereabouts for several months. The specialists do not think this is the only nest. They will continue to hunt for them.
They even have been putting tiny radio transmitters on any live wasp they can catch, to follow...
Just heard a report on radio NPR this evening about this beastie having been found in British Columbia, and now just a few weeks ago in northern Washington state. Apparently these buggers are hell on honey bees, which puts the shit on a whole raft of agricultural benefits honey bees provide...
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