Here's The Deal With 'Murder Hornets'

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Reports of so-called 'murder hornets' have been all over the news this week. (Even though they were first spotted in the United States late last year.) We talk with entomologist Samuel Ramsey who explains how much of a threat the Asian giant hornet could be to honeybees throughout the country. And, he shares his own encounter fighting these insects while researching bees in Thailand.

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0:32.1	Okay, here we go.
0:34.3	You're listening to shortwave from mpr.
0:37.2	Today, we've got one of our favorite guests.
0:42.6	Well, well, well, Dr. Bugs back on shortwave.
0:48.1	That's so quickly too.
0:49.6	That's Sammy Ramsey, aka Dr. Bugs.
0:53.6	He's an entomologist that you might remember from an episode we aired about honeybees.
0:58.7	I know.
0:59.7	I appreciate you making time for us, little people, now that you're famous.
1:04.2	Oh, well, the title Murder Hornets.
1:08.6	It just has a tendency to get everybody interested.
1:12.4	A massacre in the honeycombs.
1:15.0	There were dead bees all over the front of the hive, all over the bottom of the world.
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