Asian giant hornets - Photo credit to CBC

By Dori Modney with files from the Canadian Press

Pesticides aren’t the only potential impacts for Canadian honeybees

Sep 20, 2019 | 2:11 PM

NANAIMO — As if beekeepers don’t have enough to worry about when it comes to maintaining bee hives, now there’s the potential for devastation coming from Asian Giant hornets.

A nest of invasive Asian giant hornets has been discovered and destroyed in a park south of Nanaimo, B.C.

Giant hornet nest — Photo credit to CBC

The B.C. government says its experts and a group of local beekeepers successfully eradicated the nest using carbon dioxide and removed all the hornets and the queen.

The province says three of the insects were found in the Nanaimo area in August and another three were found earlier this month, helping them to trace the location of an underground nest.

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The hornets, which are common in parts of China, Korea and Japan, feed on insects and are capable of destroying a honeybee hive in a short period of time.