Then I realized I was listening to the bee-side. I took it home and put it on the turntable and started listening… Something wasn’t quite right as the noises were similar- but didn’t quite sound like wasps. When I was putting together this article and a related presentation for the Canada Pest Management Association, gathering what we used to call audio visual materials, I was in an old vinyl records store and came across a sound-effects disc called “Buzzta rhyme: from the wasp nest”. Below is the full-length feature from Berube that is geared towards pest management professionals and it includes a description of the basic biology of social wasps information on the identification of Asian giant hornets (AGHs) and their kin personal protection recommendations and tips for safe nest removal. Berube has been the triggerman for the 2019 extirpation of the first (and so far only) nest of Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia) discovered in Canada1. Editor’s note: Conrad Berube, an entomologist and beekeeper (and senior IPM officer with the British Columbia Ministry of Environment), has spent more than 40 years working with highly defensive stinging wasps and bees, particularly tropic-zone evolved honeybees (so called “killer bees”), in North, Central and South America, Asia and Africa.
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