[Leica] Murder Hornets

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

They are really beautiful.  But why on earth is *Vespa mandarinia* referred
to as a "murder hornet"???  Absurd.  It's just a rather impressive insect
that does what hornets do.  People moving them to areas where the fauna and
human populations are not adapted to their presence is the problem.  Is
this a media name to get people hyped up and scared so media outlets get
more clicks and advertising viewing?





On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 6:33 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I got to go to an undisclosed lab and see the murder hornets they got
> from the nest that was destroyed last week north of Bellingham, WA.
> They got 60 of them and are running some behavioral studies on them.  I
> tried to get a few shots but they are in thick glass bottles or in cages
> so the quality is not that great.  Those suckers are HUGE!.  I would
> hate to get stung by one of them.
>
> They are kept in these cages in tents in an isolation room with three
> doors to get in and out.
>
> Murder Hornet-1000581 (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000581.jpg.html>
>
> Here they are in thick glass bottles as an experiment is being done on
> them.  The scientist was not there, but I gather they are agitating them
> and then collecting samples of air to see if they are giving off any
> chemical that might be used to influence their behavior to our benefit.
>
> Murder Hornet-1000579 (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000579.jpg.html>
>
> The rest are just some various views of one of them in her glass jar.
> As I said, the glass makes it impossible to get a really sharp photo of
> them.
>
> Murder Hornet-1000578 (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000578.jpg.html>
>
> Look at those jaws.  No wonder they can decimate a whole honey bee hive
> in a matter of  hours.
>
> Murder Hornet-1000573 (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000573.jpg.html>
>
> I like this shot as it shows the three ommatidial eyes between the
> larger compound eyes.
>
> Murder Hornet-7075-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-7075-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> One more
>
> Murder Hornet-7072-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-7072-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> The ones starting with 100xxxxxx are from the Q2 with an Elpro attached.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
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> Aram
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