> In the last eight weeks, I have counted 361 queens. The meagre three traps might sound irrelevant in the face of the growing continental scale of the problem, and perhaps they are. However, a mature hornet nest in autumn can have 6,000 individuals, so potentially over two million fewer hornets will be patrolling our local landscape come autumn.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 12.1 ms ] threadIn case anyone is wondering about the number.
What an odd post to make the front page of HN.