Quote Originally Posted by dragmerc View Post
well, you surprise me again. i can't figure you out. i thought people that leaned your way didn't kill anything.
i don't know what a eurasian hornet is but, i don't kill any kind of bees except borer bees.
i like regular ole timey hornets. they eat their weight in bad insects like grasshoppers and caterpillars.

honey bees and wasps are almost gone.
i've seen 1 honey bee in the last 2 years.
don't bother a bee and they won't bother you.


I'm a gun toting Democrat who is interested in environmental protection but I pack a 9 mm and an AR15. My favorite hobby is shooting guns. Next is fishing. I'm a conservationist in the from of Teddy Roosevelt.

I thought about leaving them alone but read that they produce new queens that overwinter and make new nests the next year. And they don't belong here as they were imported from Europe back in the 1800s. They can get aggressive if they think you are bothering their nest. They can fly 25 mph and you can't out run them. They have stingers that are 1/4 " long. The closest thing we have to them in size is the Cicada Killer Wasp. It's about 2" long for the females. I got stung by a Cicada Killer Wasp while camping at Audobon Park in Henderson, KY. My wife though I was whinning too much until she too go stung and she started to cry. It hurt for three days. These Eurasian Hornets can sting multiple times. They will kill honey bees and feed the bee parts to their young larva.

My reason for having them killed was to prevent them from spreading new colonies in the neighborhood. Being an exotic they don't have a lot of natural enemies to keep their populations in check.

And yes they do eat a lot of other harmful insects but when they start eating honey bees that negates the good things that they did. We need all the honey bees we can get. For without these pollenators the food we need can't develop and grow.