{"id":201989,"date":"2021-03-14T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/murder-hornets-could-resurface-in-us-this-spring\/"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T18:21:34","slug":"murder-hornets-could-resurface-in-us-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/murder-hornets-could-resurface-in-us-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"#Murder hornets could resurface in US this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Murder hornets could resurface in US this spring<\/strong>”
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Murder hornets buzzed off this winter in the US \u2014 but they may soon be back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The jumbo stingers from Asia could wreak havoc this spring as the weather warms and their queen bees emerge from underground \u2014 to start popping out babies, experts told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly the queens survive the winter, and right now, any [hornet] hibernating won\u2019t come out until it\u2019s warm enough to do so, in mid-to-late April,\u201d said Doug Yanega, a scientist at the Entomology Research Museum in California who has studied the hornets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point, it\u2019s just a queen by herself trying to raise a batch of offspring \u2014 and we don\u2019t general<\/a>ly start seeing them until her workers start multiplying in May or June,\u201d the scientist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe population grows from there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first reported sighting of the big buggers in the country occurred in Blaine, Wash., in December 2019. The hornets are believed to have made their way to the US through Canada, after getting there from Asia.<\/p>\n

They were sighted again last year in Washington state in May. The last time the hornets were officially noted in the US was when a nest was exterminated in Washington state in November, according to Washington state officials.<\/p>\n

Scientists and volunteers in Washington are now planning to set up traps to try limit the vicious stingers to a small northwest corner of the state, experts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re doing everything they can to track them down and wipe them out,\u201d Yanega said of officials.<\/p>\n

Known officially as Asian giant hornets, the insects can grow up to 2 inches long and are a threat to honey bees \u2014 which they can decapitate in seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meat-eating hornets have even been known to kill up to 50 people a year in Japan. <\/p>\n

Coyote Peterson, the host of an extreme-nature show, recently described to The Post what their sting felt like, calling it, \u201cSearing pain! Absolute searing pain!\u201d<\/p>\n

Karla Salp of the Washington State Department of Agriculture told The Post last week that scientists still have some questions about the hornet\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Murder hornets] are basically in the ground or trees over winter, and then they start emerging in the spring,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have data on when they emerge specifically. [But] our first sighting last year was in May.\u201d<\/p>\n

She declined to say what preventive measures her department is taking, saying it would be announced at a press conference Monday.<\/p>\n

Some scientists said that based on past geographical data, it\u2019s not likely that the hornets will invade other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t expect them to be good candidates for spreading quickly,\u201d Yanega said. \u201cThere\u2019s no expectation that they\u2019ll move very far or very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

But other experts have told The Post that it\u2019s not a question of if but when they make it to the East Coast.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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