The Washington State Department of Agriculture is desperately seeking to track down those nests Wasps And kill her before she continues her fierce, deadly attacks. Sven Eric Spischiger, an insect expert at the ministry, said, “The giant Asian hornets start at this time of the year, entering what we call the slaughter phase,” explaining: “Wasps will visit apiaries, and basically mark the hive and attack it.” Powerfully, and removing each bee from the hive, then cutting the heads of the bees and killing all the workers, then she spends the next few days harvesting the brood and cocoons from the hive to be the source of food for her.
Speaking at a press conference held on the social networking site Facebook yesterday, Friday, Spichiger said that the ministry believes that it is dealing with one nest, and that it is necessary to find and destroy it before reaching the “slaughter stage” or making new ones. The American expert pointed out that the first wasp among the six wasps previously mentioned, was seized on September 21, east of Blaine in Watcom County, where a family discovered it after the hornet repeatedly visited a hornet’s nest in the frieze of its roof. According to what was reported by “The Seattle Times”. Then Spichiger said the family decided to set a trap and then seized another wasp.
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Another entomologist at the ministry, Chris Looney, met the owner of the place and were able to catch a third wasp alive in its net while they were talking. Spichiger explained that the Washington State Department of Agriculture tried to stick a chip on the live wasp, working on identification via radio waves, but the idea of using the gum failed, and it extended to the wings of the wasp and prevented it from flying and returning to its nest, and thus the plan that could have led scientists to failure The nest.
Giant Asian hornets are about two inches long and can completely destroy the hives of honey-producing bees.
Then Carla Sapp, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Agriculture, found a fourth hornet dead in a street lamp. Spichiger said that the fifth hornet was captured through a “perfect” photograph taken by an external camera placed at a doorbell, where the yellow head of the large insect appeared in the photograph. While someone reported the sixth hornet, after finding it dead in the balcony.
He said that the ministry will inspect its live traps on a daily basis, noting that it uses a number of methods to find giant Asian hornets, including the use of beehives for the purpose of seduction.
The “Seattle Times” newspaper pointed out that the giant Asian hornets, which are the largest in the world at two inches long, can completely eliminate the hives that produce honey, which is necessary for pollination, as well as cause Painful stings to humans. It should be noted that there are up to 50 people who die every year from wasp stings in Japan.
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