TITLE: Giant Asian Hornets can kill with one sting heading to the U.K.!

TRUTH: They aren’t bigger than our hornets. So not exactly ‘giant’.

Their venom is no more deadly than a native wasp.

But, yes, they are Asian... so obviously terrifying. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/deadly-giant-asian-hornets-can-21844860?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Of course, invasive species can be an ecological problem.

But how we view them is often heavily coloured by unconscious xenophobia, that is ingrained (& evident) in how we communicate.

If we really care about the planet, we should also care about evidence. Not ‘otherness’.
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