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It seems most likely that they wanted to avoid killing the hornets. Perhaps to study them and find out which native Japanese population of hornets they came fro
by datameta 6y ago
It seems most likely that they wanted to avoid killing the hornets. Perhaps to study them and find out which native Japanese population of hornets they came from in order to stem the flow of this invasive species. Could even be simply to preserve life.
- MauranKilom 6y agoThe hornets in that tube look very dead to me.
- datameta 6y agoThe hornets had been put on ice which lowers their metabolism to a state of stupor but they recover from this as soon as their temperature goes back up. Another common technique for making stinging insects docile during handling is using smoke to calm a beehive's alertness response through inhibiting their ability to detect pheromones that signal danger.