re: About those murder hornets

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Despite the media branding them as “murder hornets” (fear porn) they are no more aggressive than other yellowjackets

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frick a yellowjackets and frick a paper wasps and frick a mahogany wasps.

Kill
Them
All
With
Fire

Honey bees, I love. But all the ones that make hanging nests seem to have a natural hostility towards TigerAxe.

I'm not particularly overly worried about the big bastards from Asia though. I've gotten quite proficient at striking even the smallest of wasps out of the air with only my fishing rod, so a bigger target = advantage me.

I’m not sure if anyone here has ever followed Coyote Peterson, but he is a wildlife expert who has a popular YouTube channel and Animal Planet show. His whole thing is that he seeks out the worst stings and bites in the world, and purposefully lets himself get stung/bitten. He has been stung by this hornet (whose non-hysteria name is the Asian Giant Hornet). In an interview with TMZ he pointed out a few things: 1) the Asian Giant Hornet sting is not the worst sting he has experienced, that was the Executioner Wasp; 2) there has only been one Asian Giant Hornet found here, and it’s now dead. So the spread of them across the U.S. is unlikely; 3) he said the people who should be the most worried are beekeepers, because of the threat the Asian Giant Hornet would pose to the bee population if they did spread across the U.S.

In short, most of what we hear about the “murder Hornet” is just hype. Most people are not going to be threatened by the Asian Giant Hornet.

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Yellow jackets on the other hand can barely be seen while they napalm your skin.

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This is oh so true.

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Any reports of people seeing them should be taken with high skepticism.

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I can't look at these types of headlines and not laugh. If your genetics are such that bees and wasps pose an existential threat then I don't think you should be allowed to reproduce. Your seed is compromised