How Bad is the "Murder Hornet" Sting? & Other Questions
Filmed Sept 12, 2021
You've heard a lot of hype about the "Murder Hornet" from the news, from your friends ... from basically everyone. Now it's time to look into some of the deeper biology of these amazing animals. We'll talk about their stings - how painful are they? What's in the venom? How deadly? We'll talk about the Asian Giant Hornet spread in the US and compare them to the killer bees. And we'll dive into some of their ecology.
Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Their Spread
6:06 Their Adaptability
7:37 Their Sting
15:03 Their Impacts
16:19 Their Predators
18:10 Overhyped & Overblown?
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🔶Wasps The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect
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🔶The Sting of the Wild
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➡How the Hornets Arrived:
🔸National collaborating Centre for Environmental Health
https://ncceh.ca/content/blog/ship-sh...
➡How Far Can the Hornets Spread?
🔸WSU Insider
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2020/09/23/...
🔸Advanced Science News (Economic Damage)
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/g...
🔸PNAS
Assessing the ecological niche and invasion potential of the Asian giant hornet
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/40/2...
➡Bee Ball
🔸Ask an Entomologist Murder Hornet:
https://askentomologists.com/2020/05/...
🔸 Differences in Heat Sensitivity between Japanese Honeybees and Hornets Under High Carbon Dioxide and Humidity Conditions Inside Bee Balls
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
➡ Asian Giant Hornet Sting
🔸 National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
➡Deaths from Stinging Insects:
▶Asian Giant Hornet:
🔸CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/wo...
▶Honey Bees & Others
🔸CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/w....
🔸Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...
🔸The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/americas-...
➡Eating the Asian Giant Hornet
🔸BBC Travel
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20...
🔸New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/wo...
🔸CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/murder-horn....
➡Africanized Honey Bee
🔸Adkins
https://www.adkinsbeeremoval.com/afri...
🔸Smithsonian Institute:
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