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These sound scary :) Japan's human deaths from murder hornets are "up to 50/yr" (from the article). US's deaths from bee stings are "annual average of 62 death

These sound scary :) Japan's human deaths from murder hornets are "up to 50/yr" (from the article). US's deaths from bee stings are "annual average of 62 deaths"[1]. My rudimentary math (US pop. / Japan pop. * 50 deaths/yr) says that it would be about 131/yr for the US. (Of course this doesn't take into account whatever other factors there are). The bees on the other hand... Hopefully WA can figure out how to stop these things. I want my local honey... [1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6829a5.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6829a5.htm

m0llusk 6y ago
You don't need to die to find them unpleasant. In my senior year of college one of these built a nest outside the library and they would dive at me menacingly when it was warm out. They are at least as big as hummingbirds and behave much more aggressively.