One murder hornets nest is officially off the get-rid-of list in Washington.
10/24/2020 2:40 PM PTThe deadly hornets nest discovered in Washington is no more -- because some badass wildlife experts suited up and got rid of the damn thing ... with some crazy equipment in hand.
A group of scientists and entomologists working for the Washington State Department of Agriculture's Pest Program got up early Saturday morning and headed out to where the nest was recently found at a residential area in Blaine, WA -- right near the Canadian border.The team was up and at 'em before the sun was even out, and it was all strategic ... they wanted to sneak up on the tree where thethemselves inside and suck them out using some sort of a vacuum, catching the hive by surprise.
There was more to it than just that though -- apparently, they flooded the trunk of the tree with a paralyzing foam, wrapped a good portion of it in plastic to contain them even further ... and then got to the business of sucking them down and in different tubes, which they later showed off to the cameras that were standing by for the mission. It's pretty neat.
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