[Leica] Murder Hornets

[Jim Nichols]

Nice coverage, Aram.  I'm glad they are in your part of the world, not mine.

On 8/31/21 4:03 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG 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>
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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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> Murder Hornet-1000579 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000579.jpg.html>
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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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> Murder Hornet-1000578 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000578.jpg.html>
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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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> Murder Hornet-1000573 (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-1000573.jpg.html>
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> I like this shot as it shows the three ommatidial eyes between the 
> larger compound eyes.
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> Murder Hornet-7075-Edit (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-7075-Edit.jpg.html>
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> One more
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> Murder Hornet-7072-Edit (leica-users.org) 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/mh/Murder+Hornet-7072-Edit.jpg.html>
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> The ones starting with 100xxxxxx are from the Q2 with an Elpro attached.
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> Comments welcome.
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> Aram
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA