Yes, but once they kill off our bees, there's not much left to pollinate our crops. Then the famines start. That's considerably worse than a hornet sting.
the 'murder hornets' are pollinators too.
Most farmers here tolerate them because of that and because they catch pests like caterpillars and beetles. They are only dangerous around the hive for most of the year but in autumn they get a little crazy away from the nest too.
What happens in spring and summer is that the workers go out and catch caterpillars and beetles and take them back to the hive and feed them to the pupae (or whatever baby murder hornets are called .. maybe Chucky?? haha dunno the English) and then the babies reward them with sweet spit up .. high in some kind of sugar. This is their only sustenance. However in Autumn when the babies are grown, they don't get anymore sweet spit up.
What farmers here do is make a trap with any kind of sweet liquid plus a little dishwashing liquid to break the surface tension and catch the grumpy wotsits in that.
They all die when it gets cold anyway, except for the queen who makes herself a solitary mud nest for the winter.. and when it gets warm again she will lay a few eggs to get started and the whole cycle begins again.
As for the bees. Here in Japan and the rest of Asia, we do have European honey bees. But beekeepers put a little metal wired thingie over the entrance of the hive .. the holes are big enough for the bees but too small for the hornet (Suzume bachi means sparrow hornet.. cause they big mfers) that way the hornets can't raid the bee hive.
Japanese honey bees don't need this gate on their hive because they have a tactic where they kill the hornet by smothering it with lots of themselves .. and making the hornet die of heat stroke.
Much much more destructive to bees is fucking Monsanto ,.,,, I wouldn't worry about a few killer hornets if I were you.
Hornet gate for bee hive
and how the local bees deal with them
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