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Apparently they are being controlled quite well in the UK at the moment. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/13/rapid-spread-of-bee-killing-asian-

• HeckFeck 2y ago
  I did my part. Five years ago, while I was driving one of the blighters landed on my windscreen. I pushed the wiper lever to rinse, expecting it to swipe him away. Instead it beat him down to my air intake vent, and he was sucked into the AC system. I made sure to warn the mechanic of what lurked down there when I brought the car for her annual service.
  • pjbeam 2y ago
    Did your mechanic visit happen soon thereafter? Was it alive?
    • HeckFeck 2y ago
      The visit was a few months afterwards, and he changed the air filters without comment. If it was still alive, or mutated into something ungodly, I would've known. Unless the mechanic is now host to something worse, and that's the reason he didn't speak... I think I'll change mechanic for good measure.
• hocuspocus 2y ago
  Not the same Asian hornet, in Europe we have Vespa velutina vs mandarinia in the PNW. Our invasion was traced back to 2004 when a queen was supposedly brought from China to France through the port of Bordeaux. The spread is very much not controlled in Mediterranean countries, but I believe beekeepers have adapted.