谋杀黄蜂（专家事实和安全指南）

Are Murder Hornets In The US?

In a word, yes. Thefirst confirmed sightingwas in Blaine, Washington in December 2019. It was the third sighting in North America. Other specimens were discovered in Nanaimo and White Rock, British Columbia in Canada early that year.

Foreign species of insects经常以运输板条箱到达美国, in potting soil, or large potted plants where a queen might be overwintering during the journey. Once in the United States, the queen emerges and flies off to begin starting a new colony.

This is unfortunate because there aren’t any natural predators for them here, allowing them to spread without limit if they begin reproducing before researchers can find and eradicate the existing nests.

由于每个殖民地一次只有一个生殖女王，如果可以找到一个蜂巢并且在11月更多的皇后出生之前被淘汰的女王，他们的传播就可以停止。

Are Murder Hornets Deadly?

Asian Giant Hornets acquired the nickname ‘Murder Hornets’ because of their unsavory habit ofslaughtering honeybees在10月/11月的时间范围内，男性和新皇后在成熟时，为年轻的蛋白质盛宴。

This phase of their life cycle is known as the “Slaughter and Occupation” phase (Matsuura and Sakagami, 1973). A foraging worker will discover honeybee hives and leave a pheromone marker to alert others in the hive to their location.

工人将聚集在附近，直到50或更多的人到达，然后遭到大规模屠杀。利用它们的巨大规模和力量来发挥自己的优势，他们将斩首成年的蜜蜂人口，一次屠杀成千上万的人群。

They’ll leavehuge piles of dead beeson the ground outside the honeybee hives

攻击可以在几个小时的时间内进行。一旦所有的成年蜜蜂都死了，谋杀黄蜂将占据被征服的蜂巢和盛宴上的幼虫。他们还将捍卫它免受Vespa mandariniafrom other hives.

Despite anything you may hear from CNN, the New York Times, or any other media group, their nickname comes exclusively from this slaughter and occupation phase of their life cycle, not from any danger they present to human beings.

但是，在亚洲，日本蜜蜂已经开发了一种与更大，更强大的敌人作斗争的方法。当温度上升到111ºF度以上时，亚洲巨型黄蜂将在约20分钟左右的时间内死亡。

日本蜜蜂可以生存，直到温度达到122ºF。他们将围绕进攻V. mandarinia, packing nearly 1000 of themselves around their enemy until it dies from their body heat.

The European honeybees popular here in America, don’t have that defense. When a swarm of Murder Hornets attacks, they’re helpless. Since honeybees are important for the pollination of our crops, this represents a significant danger to our food supply.

如果谋杀大黄蜂刺人人类会怎样？

Can the world’s largest hornets kill a human being? The only honest answer is, yes but there are several caveats to go with that answer.

Whereas bees can only sting one time then lose their stingers, wasps and hornets have long, curved stingers with few barbs on them. This allows them to withdraw their stingers instead of leaving them stuck in their victim, so they can sting multiple times.

蜜蜂中的毒液实际上更强，盎司盎司比杀人大黄蜂中的毒液。However, because of their larger size,V. mandariniacan inject nearly seven times more venom with each sting. And remember, they can sting many times.

The larger quantity of venom injected with each sting, coupled with their ability to sting multiple times, does, in fact, make them deadly to human beings. How many stings are required for a lethal dose will depend on the size of the victim.

The venom from wasps and hornets is also much more painful than the venom from bees. The sensation from each one has been described as being akin to being jabbed with red-hot thumbtacks – each time you’re stung.

Anything more than four or five stings from them will not only create tremendous amounts of pain, it could be fatal as well. This brings up a secondary problem, ordinary beekeeping suits won’t protect you from their stings.

需要使用多层织物的专业养蜂人西服来保护人们免受谋杀黄蜂的侵害。他们的长而细的刺痛者将很容易穿透普通的蜜蜂服，基本上，这无非是带有头盔和手套的沉重的工作岗位。

Therefore it’s lucky they对人，宠物或牲畜的积极性并不是特别激进。Their main prey is other insects, primarily honeybees, using their mandibles to decapitate and kill them.

但是，如果您打扰他们的巢穴，他们会捍卫它，尤其是在夏末和秋季初殖民地​​为男性准备的准备时。

How To Get Rid of Murder Hornets If You See One?

Unless you’ve got a specialized beekeeper suit, you should note where you saw the hornets and report it. The government has created an Invasive Species app for your smartphone or you can use their web site to file the report.

It will ask you several questions about where and what day of the month you saw the hornet, what species you think it was, the state and county where the sighting took place, and – if you know it – the latitude and longitude where it occurred.

If you’re a beekeeper and you want to protect your beehives from depredation you can placerobbing screens在蜂箱的入口处。大多数蜂巢入口都被＃8电线网覆盖，仅留下狭窄的缝隙作为蜂巢的入口。

This narrow gap is much easier for honeybees to defend than the entire entrance. The hive itself will still emit the odors that attractV. mandarinia首先，但是至少您的蜜蜂会有一个与更大，更强壮的掠食者对抗的机会。

If you don’t have bees, your chances of being attacked by the hornets are slim. If you want to protect your family though, most any pesticide useful for stopping wasps will kill them as well. It might take a little longer because of their size but it will work.

• Delta Dust, used with a bulb duster, can be used around all the cracks and crevices of your house to prevent them from getting in.
• Talstar, in ahandheld pump-up sprayerinside or a backpack sprayer outside, will kill them as well as creating a repellent barrier.
• Tempo Ultra SC, also in a handheld or backpack sprayer, can be used.
• Because Asian Giant Hornets prefer to nest underground, spreading Talstar Granules across the yard around your house will be an excellent way to kill them and keep them out. You’ll need to use a handheld spreader to broadcast the granules.

There are many other pesticides that can be used, either inside or outside, to kill these giant hornets.

Key Points About Murder Hornets

记住这些要点，您会没事的：

• Murder Hornets are more interested in attacking honeybees than you
• It takes multiple stings to be fatal
• Aside from their size, they’re just hornets
• They can be killed with ordinary pesticides