The second wasp nest of 2021 was eradicated and a third nest was located

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The first giant Asian evening nest of the year was eradicated late last month in Whatcom County. That nest consisted of nine comb layers and had nearly 1,500 evenings at various stages of development, the WSDA said then. Staff aspirated 113 nest workers from the nest, in addition to capturing an additional 67 nets with nets in the area.

According to the WSDA website, they will continue to catch giant Asian evenings until the end of November.

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Asian giant evenings are the largest evenings in the world and were first detected in the United States in 2019. The WDSA works with local, state, and federal partners to prevent them from settling in the United States.

The evenings earned the nickname “murdered evening” because they enter a “sacrifice phase,” where they kill bees by beheading them, according to officials. They live natively in a region from northern India to East Asia. They predict bees and other insects and some evenings can destroy a hive in a matter of hours, the WSDA said.

The evening is considered invasive in the United States and was first reported in the Vancouver Island area of ​​Canada in August 2019 and has since been detected in the northwestern tip of the state of Washington, according to the USDA.

CNN’s Lauren M. Johnson contributed to this report.

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