Do Not Taunt Angry Murder Hornet?
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Yeah, I don’t know - think they’re still around but didn’t prove to be the apocalyptic scenario feared. Here’s one reference I found - link.
I guess more what I was getting at is the analysis that there is a tendency for paranoia about invasive critters to coincide with socio-political tensions between human groups. This was pointed out in the killer bees era, not that it was necessarily a plot on the part of the media - but that it coincided with an era when media was under some transformative threats (incentivized to chase viewers - early click-bait), and played into existing emotional triggers involving ill-defined specters of border hopping interlopers, and certain obvious agendas.
There’s lots of historical precedent for associating bugs with some sinister influence - from WWII accusations of Allies dropping potato beetles onto fields in Germany, (and then later on the eastern bloc). There are even references to the Confederacy blaming the Union for crop sabotage with insects.
Not to say these hornets aren’t a real problem - but there’s also a propaganda potential in the messaging in the present global climate.
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Another thing for Trump to declare a success.
“We have had to hand over only three cities to the bad bad hornets!”
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Oh, so that’s what happened to the killer bees. The idea of those moving into the US totally freaked me out as a kid. Those and fire ants made 7-year-old me decide that the South was just basically off-limits. Murder hornets seem to be coming from the opposite direction, so we’re doomed.
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When I was young, 3 yellowjackets stung me on the side of the head at once. I fell down. I swear it felt like I had been hit with a Louisville Slugger.
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Good question! I know that the tarantula hawk is completely benign toward us mutants. I have all but poked them with a camera lens and they just buzz off two feet and go back to hunting a spider to reproduce in. So chill! However, they never stop searching for big ugly spiders, ever, so in the end they find what they seek. BEWARE a Tarantula Hawk who is dragging it’s spider home, (“it’s not a matter of how it gripps it! A 1 gram hornet can’t carry a 8 gram spider!!!”) Across the ground and suddenly they think you wanna steal it from them and will +#&_ you ALL up if you get within about 6 feet of them. Just run, it works. They just wanna drag the arachnid to it’s hell hole for it’s unspeakable reproductive function, like they do. They don’t chase you. 
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That’s what she said 
You know while smiling and matter of fact like.
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