Bees vs Giant Hornets

[The Snark]

Japanese method.

 

[Kada]

Effective. Unfortunately many people often just leave them and snakes, lizards, rodents, birds etc also get trapped we release larger animals, but things like geckos are nearly impossible as their skin rips off. it has prompted us to stop using it at our farms.

 

[Kada]

Effective. Unfortunately many people often just leave them and snakes, lizards, rodents, birds etc also get trapped we release larger animals, but things like geckos are nearly impossible as their skin rips off. it has prompted us to stop using it at our farms.

As an aside, it is quite entertaining watching these Hornets attacking larger beetles as they feed on sap haha. so big and heavy, but they are incredibly determined!

 

[Isaax Critterz]

I dont like the fact that they are making these harmless creatures fight ( Although the giant hornets can pack a punch!)

 

[The Snark]

Unfortunately many people often just leave them and snakes, lizards, rodents, birds etc also get trapped we release larger animals, but things like geckos are nearly impossible as their skin rips off. it has prompted us to stop using it at our farms.

Absolutely. No trap of any form, lethal or not, should ever be deployed and simply left in the environment. They must be diligently monitored and measures in place to remove these hazards once they have done their specific job. No trap should ever be fire and forget.

With honeybees, which are the pollinators of about 70% of the world's food sources, they need all the help humans can provide, but always with the caveat of mindfulness and not creating an even worse problem down the road.

With the giant hornet, they are a real and present danger. Able to find niches in ecosystems, determined methodical predators quite capable of wiping out bee colonies both wild and farmed. The method used in that video is one of the very few that can wipe out colonies of these voracious indiscriminate predators without causing undue harm to the greater environments.

What isn't mentioned in that video is the hornets will kill all the bees in an colony. The colony in the video was doomed without that intervention and the careful blocking of the hive entrance. One single hornet can and will kill hundreds or even thousands of bees with impunity and they do, to the last and least.


As an aside, I got my start in the humanitarian aid business with land mines. IMHO, the apex of man's present use irresponsible behavior, no different than sticky traps.