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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 6197006" data-attributes="member: 10784">They're also in Japan, and this story coming out in recent weeks led me to find out they're in China, too.  Nasty creatures - a small group of them can invade a nest of honeybees and kill the entire hive - thousands of bees - in a very short time span, ripping the heads off of dozens of bees each minute, the bees while the bee stingers and bites are too weak to do anything to the hornets.  European honeybees in Japan have no defense against them, but Japanese honeybees can tolerate warmer temps than the hornets, and the Japanese honeybees surround the invading hornets and attempt to raise their body temps to high enough to kill them (before too many of the bees are killed)Video enclosed -30 hornets vs 30,000 bees.[video=youtube_share;JDSf3Kshq1M]http://youtu.be/JDSf3Kshq1M[/video]</blockquote>