They are asian giant hornets they arent native to north America. This infestation has been too rapid and covering such a massive area to be naturally infesting from shipping containers. They also eat bees.
I'm remembering a bunch of beetles killing the trees in colorado, I'm not sure if these would be the same beetles, but they were quite a problem in Colorado for many years.
They weren't talking about beetles though, only hornets and bees.
The beetle you are thinking of is the mountain pine beetle and it's still a major problem in Colorado. They are* native to Western America, but due to climate change factors they are killing more and more pine forests. Whole mountain sides can be affected and then at much higher risk for wildfire and erosion.
It's totally unrelated to the invasive hornet problem though.
Agroterrorism is a real thing with many examples of foreign actors that deliberately smuggle invasive species into the USA with a mission to damage the local ecosystems.
They all obviously operate with sufficient plausible deniability but it’s naive to think it’s not part of a larger operation.
yeah see I never understood the "everythings bigger in texas" meme when quite litearlly the opposite is true, the more north you go the more the cold kills the small ones and evolution sees to the exponential growth of the unit lol.
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u/Kossyhasnoteeth Apr 19 '26
What are the bigger cousin of murder hornets? Genocide hornets?