The Washington State Department of Agriculture is flooded with calls from citizens after huge Asian killer hornets came to America. Vespa mandarinia, which is the Latin name for this type of hornet, is not only dangerous for humans but also dangerous for bees, so panic has taken hold in America.
Scientists do not currently know how these deadly hornets appeared in America, and most likely, they arrived in one of the cargo ships arriving at the ports of Washington. If it was a deliberate importation of hornets into America, then someone had violated their federal law, and since the Agriculture Bureau opened emergency hotlines, they received hundreds of phone calls.
Vespa mandarinia is said to attack people only if they feel threatened or attacked. This species is dangerous because it carries a large amount of venom because of its size. Specifically, they can grow up to five or six inches.
- If they stab you, it can release a huge amount of poison, which is highly toxic and causes local necrosis around the wound and can even dissolve the flesh around the wound, how strong it is. As far as we know so far, a maximum of two stabs can survive. More than that, you will be given a lethal dose of blood poison and there will be a general collapse of the body, which ends up fatal for anyone who is stabbed - Sven-Erik Spichiger, chief entomologist at the Agriculture Bureau, told Reuters.
The people who were stabbed said they felt like someone was pouring boiling metal under their skin.
It is comforting for people that their more frequent targets are bees rather than humans, but they are a major threat to the entire beekeeping agricultural sector. These hornets kill about 50 people a year, mostly in Asia. But their bloodthirstiness is also shown on such small creatures as bees.
Vespa mandarinia is known for effectively decimating apiaries and beehives by killing bees per bee, and can destroy one beehive in less than an hour.
As for the American beekeeping industry, Vespa mandarinia has the potential to destroy the entire population of bees in America, making their professionals much more concerned than possible attacks on humans.
If a fertilized Vespa mandarin nut arrived in America, this dangerous colony would likely be created on American soil, but scientists say that if they find their habitat and destroy it, that the danger of doing more damage to them should be reduced to zero.
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