Nearly 200 queens found in Asian giant hornet nest removed in Whatcom County
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2020
- Entomologists with the Department if Agriculture said the first nest found in the United states is small, about a fourth the size of some found in the Asian Giant Hornet's native, Japan.
The nest was over eight feet tall and had 776 cells, in Japan they can be up to 4000 cells.
But there is one concerning factor, nearly 200 queens were found inside. www.king5.com/article/tech/sc...
This is why we need to keep these scientists funded. These people are doing wonderful work!
You mean like the global warming scientists?
@@mmabagain You mean... Bees are responsible for global warming??? I knew it!!! I've been telling people that for years. They asked, "What's your proof?"
I'd say, "I have no proof, but I can feel it in my bones and kidneys.
@@mmabagainglobal warming oh please
isnt this mutant be the result of scientist work?
@@JimmyfromPhilly215 💀
At this point, these nests shouldn’t even be researched. They should immediately be destroyed on sight.
researrch the weak points
You caught that, too.... The researchers waited _FOUR WEEKS_ before they "came back just in time to eradicate" the nest
This is just another example of just how stupid "educated" people can be. Anyone else would have destroyed the nest immediately, upon discovery, but not these slow-moving bureaucrats:
1. Send report to entomologist
2. Send specimen to lab for chemical analysis (biopsy), presence of disease & parasites (dissection)
3. Approach university board or game & wildlife commission for further instructions
4. Take no further action until instructed
You caught that, too.... The researchers waited _FOUR WEEKS_ before they "came back just in time to eradicate" the nest. Some of the developing wasps had hatched as adults & were on the loose 4 weeks later, but they were "just in time" according to this researcher
This is another example of just how stupid "educated" people can be. Anyone else would have destroyed the nest immediately, upon discovery, but not these slow-moving bureaucrats:
1. Send report to entomologist
2. Send specimen to lab for chemical analysis (biopsy), presence of disease & parasites (dissection)
3. Once lab results are completed, approach university board or game & wildlife commission for further instructions
4. Wait for permission before taking any further action
@@magnificentmuttley154 you know nothing about these hornets tho. Maybe start reading something before you feel entilted to a opinion on that matter. Reading up information on a subject is not elitist and its good for you, common sense dosent mean never read anything and have opinions on everything. Cheers
@kefkahkefhah Oh joy, someone who thinks they know exactly how much or how little I know about a subject, with absolutely zero information to draw that conclusion. And yet you want to give _ME_ advice? 🧠🚫
Just because I said nothing about the asian giant in my first comment doesnt mean I know zero about them. Besides, all thats really necessary to know about asian giants is they are an invasive species, & they would destroy our bee population if they spread throughout the States. Plus up to 70 Japanese people die every year from getting stung by them, because they swarm people & sting repeatedly
I have lived in close contact with hornets, red wasps, yellow jackets, & flightless black wasps all of my life. My grandfather & great grandfather were bee tamers/ bee keepers. Enough said
This how the ant arc in Hunter X Hunter started.
Don't be cheesy bro
Yeah I was thinking xenomorph from Alien
You can’t tell right now, but the inside of me is screaming like hell.
Don't think you're the only one here
Because you’re being lied to by your government?
We can tell, because you told us
@@jigginwithryan5334 . Ok Trumpet. Keep blowing your horn. He’ll be out of office shortly.
Those giant hornets are coming for you and your pets.
I find it highly unlikely that the nest they destroyed was the only one. So there are two potential solutions...let bee keepers start breeding japanese honey bees and if you are a bee keeper put wasp gates( guards) on your hives. If they keep a yellow jacket out they will keep a giant hornet out.
that area of Whatcom County is loaded with bush, forest, hard to inspect land. I owned acreage in Custer for years. the only surprise is that they hadn't shown up earlier. Blaine is a big Alaska fisheries boat base, and the wasps love protein. Wouldn't be surprised if that's how they got to Canada's mainland and the continental USA.
It's not a question of "letting." Industrial bee keepers especially are instructed to breed Western Honeybees instead of Asian or Japanese Honeybees, for the simple reason that they yield more honey.
Ironically, Africanized Honeybees, which yield about the same honey, are also more successful at defending their colonies. So although there are no prior observations of the same ambush tactics as the Japanese, it's possible that Africanized bees could be more successful defending against Asian Hornets.
@@davewolf6256 that's a very good point. It makes me wonder if there will be an effort to cross breed japanese bees with higher yielding breeds to select for the specific behavior that allows japanese bees to defend their hives?
@@Letthat you seem to be deeply confused about a lot of things.
For starters, the term "murder hornet" is a recent invention of the media. The species they're talking about is the Asian giant hornet, known scientifically as Vespa Mandarinia. This species has existed all across Asia for literally millions of years, since before human beings existed. Until fairly recently, it wasn't uncommon for people to fry them up and eat them. Nobody made them in a lab. The Japanese call them "suzumebachi," which means "sparrow bee."
The media did a similar thing with the "killer bee" in the 1980s and 90s. The proper term is really "Africanized honeybee," but that is kind of a mouthful. Anyway, unlike the murder hornets, the killer bee actually was a new species. It was created in a research laboratory, but not to address a threat. Basically scientists looked at the European honeybee, which is docile but not very hardworking, and the African honeybee, which produces a lot more honey than the European bees, but is also much more aggressive and harder for beekeepers to work with. So they thought by cross-breeding the European and African bees, they could get the best of both worlds and have a docile, but very hardworking bee. It backfired and the new bees came out very hardworking, but more aggressive than the African bees already were. The bees escaped from the lab and started setting up colonies throughout central America, and there was a lot of worry about if they could make it up into the US. Eventually they did, but it wasn't as bad as people thought and they were able to eradicate a lot of the colonies.
You are exactly right! I think that the Asian hornet is here to stay and we should start breeding Asian honeybees because they can defend themselves and their colonies against the hornets. We are just going to have to learn how to deal with their presence and protect our bees.
200! That is terrifying. I hope they stop these things with no mercy.
Lol but they are animals who deserve to live too
@anonymous_dot_com2326 so do all the animals it will inevitably displace due to its invasive nature.
🎯 Exactly. They need to snap out of their sleep
If I understand this researcher correctly, they came back 4 months after discovering the nest, to see that it had 200 developing queens that hadnt hatched just yet. But how many had _ALREADY_ hatched & went loose in that 4 months? Even if there were only 50 queens in that time, at an average of 100 hornets per nest, thats 500 hornets. And another brood of 200 queens produces 20,000! Great work guys! Who's side are you on, anyway??
All they had to do was destroy the nest the first time. But being researchers, they werent willing to make a decision without wasting time with a lengthy bureaucratic process
This is a perfect example of why researchers (and other types of bureaucrats & academicians) have a well-earned reputation of analysis paralysis. That nest should have been destroyed immediately!
We couldn't handle the containment of Covid, we sure ain't handling murder hornets.
The murder hornets are easier than COVID.
Couldn't contain Africanized bees either
Researchers = analysis paralysis. This video is a perfect example of it. They waited 4 months before destroying that nest
These guys are unrecognized heroes. Keep at it! 🇺🇸
You were too late...many escaped already. They produce queens all summer. The numbers were stemmed, but not eradicated.
🎯 Exactly. If I understand this researcher correctly, they came back 4 months after discovering the nest, to see that it had 200 developing queens that hadnt hatched just yet. But how many had _ALREADY_ hatched & went loose in that 4 months? Even if there were only 50 queens in that time, at an average of 100 hornets per nest, thats 500 hornets. And another brood of 200 queens produces 20,000! Great work guys! Who's side are you on, anyway??
All they had to do was destroy the nest the first time. But being researchers, they werent willing to make a decision without wasting time with a lengthy bureaucratic process
This is a perfect example of why researchers (and other types of bureaucrats & academicians) have a well-earned reputation of analysis paralysis. That nest should have been destroyed immediately!
Wow that's a big QUEEN! 😳
Yeah about 3 inch wingspan!
Are these these the Mexican killer bees the illuminati was talking about?
Amazing isn’t it?
@@tristaneaton7704: Well “killer bees” are the African subspecies of the honey bee. These things on the other hand are a cousin to the hornets found in the southern United States; so named “murder hornets” due to their bee eating habits.
@@tristaneaton7704 Asian Giant Hornet. 20-30 of them can decimate an entire honey bee colony. They grow up to about 3 inches in length and kill 30-50 people each year in Japan. We certainly don’t want them here in the states but it’s probably already too late.
Yeah, and how many already left after their nuptial flight? Some already left, guaranteed.
Im sure theres about 200 plus queens in San Francisco at any given time:)
Give these guys some kind of huge award for their work! ... Is there a Nobel Prize for dealing with killer bees?
I agree but these aren’t killer bees, they are hornets which are a type of wasp. Killer bees were a genetically modified species, two types of bees were brought together hoping for certain biological changes such as honey production, environmental hardiness and calm temperament, however it failed, from memory it was an African and the European bee. The bees outsmarted the scientists, and escaped, they make lots of honey but beekeepers can’t work with them as they are supper aggressive and can sting multiple times (it’s believed) . I learned about this in my environmental health training in the 1990tys, back then they were only occupied Africa, now they are on the American, Australian, Asian, and European continents. Our queens sometimes mate with killer bee drones and the offspring are really aggressive with great honey production but only really experienced keepers will keep the colony, most of the time the hive is completely culled. I which scientists would just stop meddling with DNA and our natural world...
There hornets
@@ljcooper-cornell59great post. I agree…Nature always knows best
Nobel Prize is more for breakthroughs in research than hands on work
Noble prize? They let over 70 queens hatch because they didn’t destroy it immediately
I live in the us and if these things were docile and they were outside next to me I’d be fascinated
These monsters didn't just fly across the ocean, they were brought here in PURPOSE
Why would anyone want to do that?
@@misterfox7210 some men just want to watch the world burn
Well lets buy more foreign crap from asia ship it here then q onder why these creatures are here,i wonder!
Dozens of deliberately harmful things are being done to us. The people of Liberal mindset refuses to see it or actually assists and supports it. USA is nothing but real estate to them.
Yeah just like COVID-19 by the Chinese government it was probably the Chinese government to destroy our agriculture
I told you- once a season ends you have no chance of eradication! They can produce thousands of queens in a single season!
There can't be any delay, such as what happened with the Ash Borer beetle. Those buggers we're not agressively exterminated immediately in the late 1990s, and now they've spread immensely, destroying maple trees, not only Ash trees.
They got there 4 days late and maybe learned something. Be nice if the USDA owned that fact.
To what end? Panic? They don’t know how many left before they got there cause they didn’t know where they were.
All they can do is tell you what they found. Those are the only facts. Everything else is speculation.
They blamed it on ICE for not deporting them in time. :-( So typical...
They were there on a friday, saw the bees, and friday afternoon quit working at eradication and headed for the barn for a long weekend. Off Saturday, Sunday, and Monday ( a holiday ). Then Tuesday they start again and surprised at how many queens had hatched while wondering how many more had hatched and left the hive. Sounds like job security is a higher priority than eradication ...
Only a government worker could take off the next +3 days, while these queens were hatching and escaping. Sure would be a shame to inconvenience their BBQ and time watching football games.
Good job capturing them, keep it going.
imagine if half of the military budget spent in afghanistan allocated for this hornet eradication
Imagine if humans weren’t greedy violent parasites. We could com close to utopia.
Why didn’t you kill them all when you first found them? Why did you allow the queens that hatched a chance to hatch? Doesn’t sound like a great decision to me
Thank you for calling them what they are and not "murder hornets".
Small steps like this can keep the idiocracy from taking over so fast.
They still got this very wrong. They found 200 females Capable of one day becoming queens. Not 200 producing queens. The media needs to get it together.
@@prozak715 as long as the trilateral commission (and the liberals) are in charge it will stay this way
Thank you for your service.
So how did they get here ?
Sheeit, we haz more Queens in a 3-block radius here in Richmond, VA. You don't believe me just axe 'em... 🤣
Hahahahaha 😂🤣😂
😂😂😂
LMAO ~ We believe ya!
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So, they knew there were was a huge next and didn't destroy it at one go? Four days later and many of the queens had hatched and flown away?
wait wait wait. how long did they know before they got there? why did it take so long that 74 hatched?
In wich state was the nest found ?
I remember this summer one landed on me by the beach. I freaked out i didn't know what king of bee was that at the time.
In late late May early June I had one of these in my house, I live in Eatonville, WA I see a lot of bees, one afternoon my cat was going nuts actually hiding after trying to get this large orange bee, not yellow, but orange and very large, I have a window cracked for my cat, it finally left via that window. After seeing the pics of the killer bee I told friends I had one in my house, they laughed told me it was a large Nat or wasp ... No it was that bee!
Vespa crabro or Vespa mandarinia ?
Why do idiots like you keep calling wasps “bees”
Your friends are right. Relax already. A wasp got in.
wasps and bees are not the same.
They are allready here,plenty of them.been seeing them for 3 years in va..
Greetings from Southern Maryland. Seen 2 a few yrs back between 5yr span. My gf actually was stung by one in her room back then(long story). Now it’s becoming normal everyday. We speak and go on about our day. 🤷♂️
Cap.
After being determined to get a closer look. Don’t think they’re Asian Americans hornets. I’m no expert. Definitely big fn hornet still.
@@Vank508 First off, they're called Asian Giant Hornets and nothing else. There is no such thing as Asian Americans Hornet. Second; don't just write whatever comes to mind and post it on internet, you could potentially put peoples lives in danger. It is reckless to say the least.
These are dangerous insects and should be treated with the utmost caution. DO NOT antagonize if spotted, they will sting and they may kill you if you are unlucky.
Insect fans: Wow that's a big hornet!
Me: Nope! (and runs away)
How did they get here?
How should we keep during winter (their off season?
Woah that’s lot queens!
🌈 I know hunty 🌈
@@tzafoxx3188 lookin like Rupauls drag race!
@@tzafoxx3188 they bettah werk
That’s scary that they made their way to the us
Wait how did the nest get here? Did they have to kill all of them?
Meanwhile in Malta 70% of our bees' population has been decimated due to this invasive species this Summer. The authorities did not take this issue seriously and tackled it immediately like the US did. We are going to suffer dire consequences.
Hope it gets resolved
Why in the world did they wait 4 days to come back and kill the nest??????
Seems silly to admit without reasons.
they are so dumb Because now you have around 70+ queens they can make nests
I was surprised they didn't remove the tree and the entire nest to take back and completely eradicate. Why leave the comb in the tree? They should've asked The Hornet King, lol.
I heard that filling a nest with queens is what a colony does when it's not thriving, and the hive was small. I'm thinking this queen found poor climate, but that doesn't mean there aren't any places in the west that will do just fine.
Love the windows 10 error sounds interrupting the broadcast..
I question how they got here! They didn't get here without someone bringing them in.
Hundreds of years of trading. You can't just blame it to someone or some organisation
Could be. Could also be stowaways aboard container ships. The first sighting was 2019 in Vancouver, a major port.
well, they say if the bees die, all life dies. I guess God decided bees shouldn't die. Behold, the super bee.
honey bees will do fine. Keepers have entrance reducers that can keep these out of the hives without slowing the honeybee. The rest of them are fucked though.
Wow shocked
We’re seeing these in VA. Reported it to USDA and haven’t heard anything. This was 5 or so months ago
Thank you. Happy hunting...very best of luck.
Wow that's insane , good luck on trying to stop them, maybe bring beehives indoors and start growing indoors
Harley Quinn impossible idea
How ignorant are you,
What a completely moronic statement.
What is their natural predator? Crows? Hawks? Weasels? Bears? ❓❓🤔
Your mom
Good question.
@@jackyflowers3493 Thanks for that 😷👌 ... "Yo Mama!" and "Godzilla" are unlikely predators, in this case. 🤨
Pikachu
There is a species of Japanese bee that swarms these giant hornets and literally roasts them to death.
Why would somebody bring that into the United States I just don't understand
What better way to cause mayhem on a global scale
I'll keep my super sprayer filled with Dawn Detergent handy as I live in Kitsap County. Any dish washing soap will kill insects with no danger to humans or animals.I quit buying wasp killer when I found out that soap works as quickly and as effective as the poisons. Apply it to the nest at night as most will be in the nest. Not all for some reason some will be too far from the nest at dusk so they show up when its light.The are workers and they won't last long once you squirt them with that Dawn water.
you got one nest, the problem is, how many other nests now. The best way to watch the spread is to see how bee keeps report attacks on the hives.
That government worker and his coworkers said the exact same thing when first fighting the Emerald Ash-borer. Government can’t run anything!
How
Saw one in Southern MI. Reported it to the state apiairy person.
What was their response?
@@yomommaahotoo264 No response
I remember years ago, when the rumor was china was going to introduce these to the US, and now, here we are.
I doubt they will be able to fully eradicate them.
so I live in Massachusetts, and had a small nest of these Asian giant hornets last year, were not getting rid of them.
Did I miss it what state was this in???
Washington state i believe
@@svrfx3573 Thank you! I do exist!
You came back 4 days later!
Like wtf you are doing a bad job
That's not possible for such a small nest to already have 200 queens inside of it
You had to take four days off did you?
Jeezum!
No way to keep control the hornet nest
Wow !
Terrifying
I was born in Whatcom county! Glad I live in Texas where I only have to worry about scorpions, wild hogs & rattlesnakes. 👍🏻
Scorpions and Rattlesnakes are majestic creatures. Wild hogs is food for me.
What state is this in?
Washington
@@michaeldavis2347 thanks
San Francisco is going to have to step up on queen production...sheesh!! 😋
Winter will take care of a lot of them hopefully people capture and track them when seen. There should be a 100$ finder fee for them. Incentive for the average person to be more vigilante Honey farmers beware. There huge and need to be reported if seen school kids in the areas should be made aware.
Winter will not, unfortunately, take care of them. Japan gets just as cold and snowy as it does here.
These are gigantic hornets wow 😳😳😳🐝🐝🐝
It sucks to say this but eventually there will be nests with 300 +plus queens that we won't find until they all make their own army
I don't know if I need to call anyone to report that I saw one here in San Diego, Ca.
If u see something...say something.
😂🤣
I hope like hell you are mistaken about seeing these monsters in California!🐝 The news channels are full of stories from the last few years about these big ass hornets killing people in Asia with their lethal stings.
Yes contact state agriculture dept and they can direct u to proper authorities
Where was the nest found ?! Please can anyone tell me ?
Watch and listen to the video and you’ll get your answer.
@@kukthomas yes thank you 💐
Is there a chance that some one planted these hornets?
Does winter slow them down?
@Fred Smith in higher elevation areas though and these hornets prefer low lying forested areas.
Yea there's no controlling this one people. This is the cumulative results of our very own stupidity and selfishness.
There will be more that you won’t eradicate. They will get a foothold here. You can’t stop something that small. When I lived in Florida 50 years ago there were no Iguanas or pythons, but look at that place today.
Good luck, if a few Asian hornets nest have already settled in the US ? I believe it’s too late, nature has its own ways of continuing it evolution journey towards the future.
GET RID OF THEASE FAST.
The racial profiling of the hornets is uncalled for, stop the hate.
Diesel Grandpa Asia is not a race. Asia is a landmass.
Thankfully, here in the UK, the only native hornets are yellowjackets and European hornets. We occasionally get illegal immigrants in the form of Asian hornets, which we are supposed to report if seen, but they aren't the giant version, and are in fact smaller than the European hornet.
I live in western pa. A woman im seeing has what was diagnosed as a "yellow jacket" nest. Nothing specific. These things are Massive! Not Asians but many of them are well over an inch. But what I found surprising is that I've killed a few dozen that have exact queen markings. Many that didn't. But A LOT that did. They were dusted in her wall and told that if she sees more in the house, they will return and treat again, and she has now seen a few more starting to enter
CO2 fire extinguisher would got them
Dang! Guess the price of honey is going up.
I laughed at my son here in OZ when I told him to hit it with the shovel and he buried it but it was still alive amazing
I wish this was our biggest problem.
It is our biggest problem- they kill honeybees and honeybees pollinate our food
wow at first I thought When 200 queens . I thought I heard incorrectly
But is the honey available for purchase?
They are a hornet not a bee.
@@InTheGarden1960
Aww ok
@@coffeeisthepathtovictory1290how do you not know the difference..?
A major disaster of future containment solved because of one thing the number one food supply to the hornet are honey bees
“Just in time” my ass! They’re already here.
Wow this giant hornet is so expensive in Nagaland ....we use to harvest
76 queen Asian Giant Hornets are now in flight in a risky bid for freedom. Follow this news station to see what the buzz is all about.
This might be like covid. At first not too bad, until it wasn’t. Scary.
Covid never was bad and still isn't. It's a flu. 98% recovery rate. It's not a pandemic. 5 members of my family had it and all recovered. One in hospitol, 4 at home.
TheOtherMike I’m so happy for your family that they are recovered. Many haven’t. I work with the elderly and it has been very bad where I am. 2.4% fatality rate is 10 times more than the flu. I’m not saying it’s as bad as the media wants to portray because they have selfish interests at heart. But I am a nurse and I can tell you that it is bad for many people. Take care.
A lot of people aren’t scared of COVID until either their grandma gets it or when they realize their business can’t run if most of their staff has it.
Great idea give some covid and turn them loose on hive!
I hate to tell you, but it's already over. Just like the killer bees. There is NO stopping them!
now your talkin
With that many queens spawned it looks like it is too late to quell this invasion. We may have to import Japanese honeybees.
Nah we need to work hard and support the scoentists financially so they feel like its worth it to continue.
@@acrobaticswitches so they can take days off between visits to eradicate the nest? I wonder if you comprehend the meaning of 'working hard'.
I'm no expert, but 200 Queens doesn't sound natural. It sounds deliberate.
Americans in a nutshell.
"IT'S A CONSPIRACY! CALL ALEX TRUMP AND DONALD JONES!!!!!!".
What an interesting video creepy interesting and scary
They should have called it a Latin name meaning “big, scary insect that rarely stings”.
Unfortunately it is devastating to other insect populations.
@@Keys879: That it is.
But first, do they like the taste of lantern bugs? Please find out.
yeah, we're all fucked
I sure wish that the Asian carp would get this kind of response.