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Beekeepers brace for next round with Canada's 'murder hornets'

British Columbia resigned to a ‘long fight’ after 2020’s efforts to track and kill the invasive insects ended in frustration

• ‘Murder hornets’: race to protect North America’s honeybees from giant invader
• Read more in our series Biodiversity: what happened next?

A captured Asian giant hornet fitted with a tracking device feeds on strawberry jam before helping officials locate – and destroy – the first nest found in the US. Photograph: Karla Salp/AP

Fri 1 Jan 2021 11.00 GMT

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The year 2020 is not one that beekeepers in Washington state and the Canadian province of British Columbia are likely to forget in a hurry. Since the spring, experts in both states have been gripped by fears of Vespa mandarinia, a hulking insect whose voracious appetite for honeybees and stealthy spread could pose a threat to the region’s vulnerable ecosystem.

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While the eradication of an Asian giant hornet nest in Washington in October was a success, officials to the north in Canada have dealt with a number of setbacks in their own bid to eradicate the hornets.

O "HABITAT" DO HOMEM BRANCO ESTÁ AMEAÇADO MAS OS INVASORES TÊM DIREITO A DISCRIMINAÇÃO POSITIVA.QUER-SE DIZER LÁ NO REINO UNIDO A COISA VAI VIRAR O BICO AO PREGO...