Yeah, my looooong thread is in the General Off-Topic section. But what worries me is (1) are there other nests out there and (2) how many queens survived and possibly mated?
I also posted a video iirc about Asian honeybees cooking the wasps to death. I wonder if it's possible to establish Asian honeybees in the US? Or is that a bad idea?
Here's another NYT link to burn through someone's free views. https://www.nytimes....rnet-bees.html
Past & Present
Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)
Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen
Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa
Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other