Congratulations Washington—First Murder Hornet Trapped
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It’s one of those good news/bad news situations out of Washington state. the Evergreen State has officially trapped its first Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the murder hornet. The state has had five sightings since last year, but the specimen found July 14 in Birch Bay is the first-ever trapped.
“This is encouraging because it means we know that the traps work,” says Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for Washington’s Department of Agriculture. “But it also means we have work to do.” The Ag Department plans to set more traps so it can capture live specimens, tag them, and track them back to their hives to destroy them.
There’s a sort of race to destroy the species, which is considered dangerously invasive:
Any colonies will likely start producing new reproducing queens and drones around mid-September. The hornets run more than 2 inches long, find honeybees tasty, are fond of attacking, and can be deadly to humans.
Edited via Newser
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What has Washington State done to earn the wrath of the Gods? Covid started there, now the murder hornets. What’s next, plague?
COVID, aka the #trumpvirus, has cursed the world, but you’re right it did start there, at least in America, and I remember people saying we don’t need to worry about it because it’s so far away. When it comes to the hornet, I’m almost without words. Florida is a good example. With the #Trumpvirus racing through the state a hurricane, of all things, slams into them.