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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>I have to say, I'm not yet really concerned about this hornet. I am more concerned about this mite making its way here though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'><a href="https://entomologytoday.org/2017/04/17/get-to-know-tropilaelaps-mites-another-serious-parasite-of-honey-bees/">https://entomologytoday.org/2017/04/17/get-to-know-tropilaelaps-mites-another-serious-parasite-of-honey-bees/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'><a href="https://leasehoney.com/2020/01/09/the-amazing-dr-samuel-ramsey-his-talk-on-tropilaelaps-mercedesae-mites-at-abf2020/">https://leasehoney.com/2020/01/09/the-amazing-dr-samuel-ramsey-his-talk-on-tropilaelaps-mercedesae-mites-at-abf2020/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><SDCBeekeepers@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of "Meg McGee megmcgee13@yahoo.com [SDCBeekeepers]" <SDCBeekeepers@yahoogroups.com><br><b>Reply-To: </b><SDCBeekeepers@yahoogroups.com><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 9:33 AM<br><b>To: </b>SdC Beekeepers <sdcbeekeepers@yahoogroups.com>, Angela Lewis <angelawlewis@hotmail.com><br><b>Subject: </b>[SDCBeekeepers] Fw: ABJ Extra-May 6, 2020 - 'Ridiculous' to Call Asian Giant Hornet "the Murder Hornet'<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div id=ygrp-mlmsg><div id=ygrp-msg><div id=ygrp-text><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"bookman old style",serif'>More hornet info...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"bookman old style",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="ydp812c2228yahoo_quoted_9611793546"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'>----- Forwarded Message -----<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'> American Bee Journal <info@americanbeejournal.com><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'> "megmcgee13@yahoo.com" <megmcgee13@yahoo.com><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'> Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 09:11:28 AM MDT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'> ABJ Extra-May 6, 2020 - 'Ridiculous' to Call Asian Giant Hornet "the Murder Hornet'<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=ydp812c2228yiv4273716043><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FFD249;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 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style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:maroon'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Hornet "the Murder Hornet"</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#9E0D0D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background-attachment:initial' id=ydp812c2228yiv4273716043templateBody><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-width:100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'>— University of California Davis, </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020'>—</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020'> May 5, 2020</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>It's “ridiculous” to call the Asian giant hornet recently found in British Columbia and Washington state “the murder hornet,” says noted UC Davis wasp expert and researcher Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1037" src="https://mcusercontent.com/5fd2b1aa990e63193af2a573d/images/bb6d3553-7fe4-4dc2-bcb2-ad48358b2869.jpg" alt="https://mcusercontent.com/5fd2b1aa990e63193af2a573d/images/bb6d3553-7fe4-4dc2-bcb2-ad48358b2869.jpg"><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Lynn Kimsey: </span></strong></span></b><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>“There is no evidence that there are any more hornets in</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>the vicinity of Vancouver or anywhere else on the West Coast.”</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#202020'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“It's no more likely to sting and kill a human than a honey bee,” said Kimsey, a two-term past president of the International Society of Hymenopterists, an organization that studies bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies.</span></strong><b><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“Actually it's less likely, as honey bee venom packs quite a punch and it is exclusively designed to defend against vertebrates,” she said.</span></strong></b><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“The colony everyone is hyperventilating over was actually found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, last September when it was destroyed and then a single, dead hornet was found in December in Blaine, Washington,” Kimsey said. “There is no evidence that there are any more hornets in the vicinity of Vancouver or anywhere else on the West Coast.”</span></strong><b><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>A colony of the Asian giant hornet (AGH), </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa mandarinia</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>, was found and destroyed Sept. 18, 2019 in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, and the single dead hornet was found Dec. 8, 2019 in Blaine.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>These were the first detections of this species in North America, but there may be more, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA). Beekeepers have reported “observations” (which may or may not be the same species) dating back to October 2019, WSDA says.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Twenty Asian giant hornet (AGH) specimens are housed in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, home of a global collection of nearly 8 million species. The largest one, a queen, measures about an inch and a half long, Kimsey said.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Meanwhile, entomologists are bemoaning the name "murder hornet" and the sensationalism and fear-mongering ensuing.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“It's a bloody dumpster fire,” said entomologist Stephane De Greef, administrator of a newly created Facebook page, “Is This a Murder Hornet?”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“Some poorly-worded media reports about Asian Giant Hornets have triggered a veritable avalanche of nonsense online, but I can help set the record straight," wrote senior museum scientist and hymenopterist Douglas Yanega of UC Riverside Entomology Research Museum.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“One colony was found and exterminated in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in September of 2019, with a few sightings associated,” Yanega wrote. “One wasp believed to be from that colony was found </span></strong></b>—<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> dead </span></strong>—<strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> on the U..S. side of the border near Nanaimo in December. Right now, all the authorities are doing is asking people to keep their eyes peeled JUST IN CASE there were queens that escaped the destruction of the Nanaimo nest, and established their own nests nearby. I was one of the authorities brought in to consult on this case, and to my knowledge there have not been any sightings in 2020 that would suggest the eradication attempt was unsuccessful. Put bluntly, as far as we know, there are no Asian giant hornets alive in either the U.S. or Canada as of 2020, and if there are, then they would be in the immediate vicinity of Vancouver Island (about a 50 mile radius or so).”</span></strong><b><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Said Kimsey: “A decade or more ago there was a colony of another species, </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa asiatica,</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> reported near the Port of Long Beach but nothing ever came of that either. A European species, </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa crabro</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>, was introduced into the East Coast perhaps a century ago and it is now fully established in the southeastern U.S.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Kimsey says insects often come in cargo boxes from Asia to U.S. ports, establish colonies, and expand their range.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>A soon-to-be-published article in the Entomological Society of America's journal, "Insect Systematics and Diversity," promises to shed more light on the genus and the history of introductions in the United States. Kimsey and colleagues Allan Smith-Pardo of the USDA and James Carpenter of the America Museum of History, New York, co-authored the review article.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>In the abstract, the authors define </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa </span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>as social wasps that are “primarily predators of other insects, and some species are known to attack and feed on honey bees, </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Apis mellifera,</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> which makes them a serious threat to apiculture.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“</span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> nests can be physically large, with over 1,000 workers, but usually with hundreds of workers,” they wrote. “Nests can be aerial, attached to tree branches or in shrubs, in crevices, under eaves or underground depending on the species. Depending on the latitude, nests can be either annual, started by a new queen every spring, or perennial, where young queens take over from old ones. Colonies in warm tropical climates tend to be perennial.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Washington State University Extension has published an AGH fact sheet, the work of the husband-wife team of Susan Cobey, bee breeder-geneticist and Timothy Lawrence, county director of Island County Extension (both formerly of UC Davis), and also Mike Jensen, county director of Pend Oreille. (See <a href="https://dadant.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5fd2b1aa990e63193af2a573d&id=e343462678&e=bdd2629ac4" target="_blank"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "dadant.us1.list-manage.com" claiming to be</span><span style='color:#196EEC;text-decoration:none'> https://bit.ly/2SA3TxS</span></a>)</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The WSU scientists wrote that AGH “is the world's largest species of hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia low mountains and forests. The hornet is well adapted to conditions in the Pacific Northwest.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“The primary purpose of venom is defense against predators by inflicting pain and damage,” they wrote. ”</span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Vespa mandarinia</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> is one of the two most venomous known insects in the world. The amount of venom each wasp delivers (4.1 μl/ wasp) has designated </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>V. mandarinia</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> as the most venomous insect. In comparison, the honey bee has about 0.6μl/bee. When foraging for food in spring, the AGH is not highly defensive -- unless its nest is disturbed. Late summer and fall, with the high demand for protein, they become very aggressive when attacking or occupying a honey bee colony.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“It is critical that we identify, trap, and attempt to eliminate this new pest before it becomes established and widespread,” they wrote. “Attempts to contain the spread and eradication of this invasive insect will be most effective in trapping queens during early spring before their nests become established. Finding the nests can be a bit of a challenge. Their nests are typically in the ground though they can also be found under overhangs and within wall voids. The AGH is a strong flier and often will fly up and away and have an extensive flight range. Thus tracking can be difficult.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>They advise residents to “proceed with extreme caution and contact WSDA immediately. Do not try to exterminate the nest yourself.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Cobey, who examined specimens in Japan last December and shipped some to WSU, commented this week that “I see they have already taken on the media name, murder hornets."</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The sensationalism on the media is a concern, said Lawrence, "but ... we need to find out just how extensive this infestation is."</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Facebook users are posting images of so-called Asian giant hornets that are actually such species as cicada killers, European hornets, southern yellow jacket queens, sawflies, hoverflies, a beetle, and a moth.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>“Yes, it is possible this species could establish,” wrote entomologist Sloan Tomlinson. “Has it yet? No. Until concrete evidence is presented about any further establishment by this species, it's simply conjecture. Additionally, even IF this species is established, their infamy is overhyped and sensationalized. In Japan they do indeed kill around 30 people a year. Around 40 people are killed annually in the U.S. by domestic dogs.”</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Doctoral candidate and researcher Ellie Field of Iowa State University wrote on Facebook that “the murder hornet articles are making the rounds quickly and they seem to be doing more harm than good. Yes, it is awesome to track insect populations (particularly staying watchful for non-native and potentially invasive species). But no, the Asian giant hornet </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>(Vespa mandarinia)</span></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> is not going to destroy America. The one nest and individual that was found around Vancouver last year was destroyed, and this doesn't indicate any establishment. Introduction events happen all the time, all across the world! That region should continue to keep a watchful eye, but for everyone else this is not going to be relevant. 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