||| FROM THE BELLINGHAM HERALD |||


The Washington State Department of Agriculture announced that it has destroyed another nest built by Asian giant hornets — commonly referred to as “murder hornets” — in Whatcom County. The department announced the latest Asian giant hornet nest eradication, which would be its fourth overall and third so far this year, in social media posts on Facebook and Twitter Thursday morning, Sept. 23. The posts did not say if the nest that was destroyed was the third nest that had been located last week but required special equipment to destroy because it was located approximately 20 feet up in a tree.

Late last week, the department posted that it had a “concerning” report about a possible Asian giant hornet sighting that was approximately 20 miles east of where the three nests had been located this year and the first Asian giant hornet nest in the U.S. was destroyed last year.

What the Department of Agriculture did report about the latest nest was that it had 10 combs inside a tree. That would make it the largest, in terms of combs, destroyed so far this year, surpassing the first nest, which the department said had nine combs and more than 1,500 hornets in various stages of development. “All workers — no males or virgin queens,” the Facebook post reads. “The queen that started the nest had interesting coloring!”

Read more at: www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article254469303.html#storylink=cpy


 

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