Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest

Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by raducu on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:03AM (#24893801)

Hives are already a protective bubble, if the bees could make it more secure, they would.

We could make lasers driven by ML to identify the hornets and shoot them down as they approach a hive, but that would be really expensive :)

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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by dmix on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:44PM (#24900426)

That's actually a very clever idea. I like that.

It would be an excellent grad CSS project. Identifying the Giant Wasps with 99.9% or whatever accuracy and deploying some defensive mechanism.

The problem like you said would be(e) infinitely expensive to deploy to all of the many thousands of randomly placed hives. But maybe useful for the industrial pollinator companies, which is a big thriving industry.

Anyway, I just like these sort of clever tech solutions.

There has to be plenty of solutions to this (major) problem we haven't thought of yet.

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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by Cytobit on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:52PM (#24900533)

> if the bees could make it more secure, they would

I don't think the bees really have any input.

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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by raducu on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:14AM (#24907605)

I'm not a beekeeper, and sure, the modern hives are also optimized for productivity and easy access(bees are forced to produce more honey than they would naturally produce) -- but hives entrances have certain dimensions taken from nature so the bees can cool the hive -- you cannot make the entrances smaller or the hive will overheat.

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