New reports have just come in stating that a 54 year-old man in the northwest part of Spain was killed recently after being stung by a “murder hornet,” a species that has just made its way to the United States from Asia.
Fox News reported that the man was tending to a wasp nest close to a beehive he owned in Villestro when he was stung in the eyebrow by a murder hornet, which can grow to be up to 2 inches long. The murder hornets can wipe out entire bee colonies in just a few hours, and they kill fifty people a year in Japan.
This comes as panic has been spreading through the U.S. like wildfire after murder hornets were spotted here for the first time in Washington state. Experts have since been trying to get people to calm down, saying that panic over murder hornets is actually proving to be harmful to the very bees that are crucial to our survival as humans.
“Millions and millions of innocent native insects are going to die as a result of this,” Dr. Doug Yanega, a professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, told the Los Angeles Times. “Folks in China, Korea and Japan have lived side by side with these hornets for hundreds of years, and it has not caused the collapse of human society there. My colleagues in Japan, China and Korea are just rolling their eyes in disbelief at what kind of snowflakes we are.”
Earlier this month, the Washington State Department of Agriculture issued instructions on how to trap the hornets, pointing out that they have been sighted only within the state so far.
“There are no known sightings of Asian giant hornets anywhere else in the United States and trapping for them there will likely do more harm than good by catching native desirable insects. PLEASE DO NOT TRAP FOR ASIAN GIANT HORNETS IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON STATE,” the warning read.
Sven-Erik Spichiger, managing entomologist at the Washington state Agriculture Department, warned that due to the enormous size of the hornets, it’s easy for them to inject multiple large doses of their venom when they sting. While humans can likely survive one or two stings, he said more than that could prove to be deadly.
“What we are told from the literature is that most people can survive one or two stings,” he told The Sun. “But if you sustain multiple stings, the necrosis and the venom will actually start getting into your bloodstream and will start working on your organs. And multiple stings could literally be fatal.”
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