Aram,
Thank you, these guys look VERY dangerous.
Bill
On Aug 31, 2021, at 14:03, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I got to go to an undisclosed lab and see the murder hornets they got from
the nest that was destroyed last week north of Bellingham, WA. They got 60
of them and are running some behavioral studies on them. I tried to get a
few shots but they are in thick glass bottles or in cages so the quality is
not that great. Those suckers are HUGE!. I would hate to get stung by one
of them.
They are kept in these cages in tents in an isolation room with three doors
to get in and out.
Murder Hornet-1000581 (leica-users.org)
Here they are in thick glass bottles as an experiment is being done on them.
The scientist was not there, but I gather they are agitating them and then
collecting samples of air to see if they are giving off any chemical that
might be used to influence their behavior to our benefit.
Murder Hornet-1000579 (leica-users.org)
The rest are just some various views of one of them in her glass jar. As I
said, the glass makes it impossible to get a really sharp photo of them.
Murder Hornet-1000578 (leica-users.org)
Look at those jaws. No wonder they can decimate a whole honey bee hive in a
matter of hours.
Murder Hornet-1000573 (leica-users.org)
I like this shot as it shows the three ommatidial eyes between the larger
compound eyes.
Murder Hornet-7075-Edit (leica-users.org)
One more
Murder Hornet-7072-Edit (leica-users.org)
The ones starting with 100xxxxxx are from the Q2 with an Elpro attached.
Comments welcome.
Aram
Aram
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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
