I will never forget as a kid watching my friends big brother run screaming through the yard being stung and attacked by a bunch of hornets. He had gotten into a hornet’s nest and well, they didn’t come up with the cliche because hornets act nicely when stirred up.
He could have used some hornet spray that day, that’s for sure.
These guys were working with those giant Japanese hornets, oh man!
A team led by a professor of chemical ecology at Kochi University has identified a chemical substance that temporarily dulls the aggressive instinct of hornets…Hornets that were sprayed with the chemical did not act aggressively, such as by stinging people…The researchers also confirmed that (hornet) colony members did not approach after detecting the chemical…The firm plans to start selling the spray as early as April.
