A new study finds that traps using sex pheromones could stop the invasion of murder hornets
✖ In 2019, Asian giant hornets — better known to the public as murder hornets — first appeared in the United States while the Washington State Department of Agriculture located and exterminated three of the invasive species' nests in 2021 in the hopes of eradicating them, there's still some concern that the hornets could still be out there. Now, however, researchers may have found a new way to combat them.
However, while the traps do work, there are some limitations. The traps only work on male hornets and, but female hornets could still form colonies if they've already been mated, something that Allen Gibbs, professor in the department of life sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas told CNN. Gibbs was not involved in the study.
Thus far, it's unknown if more murder hornets will be found in the United States in 2022. Washington state officials are hopeful that the work done in 2021 to locate and destroy their nests will have eradicated the hornets here, though scientists won't know for sure for several months. The previous nests were discovered in the fall of the year — in August in September in 2021 and near the end of October in 2020.
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