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Needs more details on the tagging traps along with any suits that are too thick to get pierced by their stingers.

• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Intellectual Ventures has shown off a prototype laser detection and kill system (photonic fence) for mosquitoes many years ago; it can differentiate between male and female mosquitos by wing flapping rate, and if a female mosquito, increases power to kill the target. I am curious if such hardware could be repurposed for defending honeybee hives from these hornets, at least those under the control of humans. https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mosquito-zapping-laser-that-was-going-to-stop-malaria https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mos...
  • Buttons840 6y ago
    A camera and some machine learning could probably detect when a bee hive is being attacked by one of these.
    • toomuchtodo 6y ago
      You want to kill the hornet before it can make its way to the hive(s).