Japanese hornets

[eri]

Better than reading about it, Sarge, are some videos on youtube. Search for japanese honeybees.

[dhood]

That's a trait that the Asian Honeybees have adapted for survival, but our honeybees will not do this. Would be nice though.

[tillie]

I've been seeing European hornets this year and haven't in the past.  The first two years, I saw lots of Bald-faced hornets.  This year the European one is around every day.  They are cannibals and take the live bees to feed their babies like the Bald-faced hornets do.  I posted a picture today of the hornet I've been seeing.  The link says that in the US people tend to mis-identify them as Japanese hornets which are not in the USA.

Here's the picture:



The Penn State entomology department says that the European hornet is technically the only true hornet in the US.

Linda T in Atlanta

[TwT]

I killed one last year, it came buzzing around me and I thought it was a humming bird, must have been a queen because it was huge (they say they get 1 1/4 long but I figured this one to be about 1 3/4 long and thick as my little finger), I did a search and read about them making there way down into Ga. now and I here they like to make their next in between forks of tree's.

[dpence]

We have cicada hornets around here, cigar shaped, appear to have two sets of wings and get 5-6" long. They scoop up bees sometimes. They look and sound scary, but i don't think they do too much damage.

We have cicada killers here too, very large solitary wasp that borrows in the ground.

David