[Leica] Murder Hornets

[Aram Langhans]

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.

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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.

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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.

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Look at those jaws.  No wonder they can decimate a whole honey bee hive 
in a matter of  hours.

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I like this shot as it shows the three ommatidial eyes between the 
larger compound eyes.

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One more

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The ones starting with 100xxxxxx are from the Q2 with an Elpro attached.

Comments welcome.

Aram




Aram

-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson