Why killer bees aren't that bad
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I remember hearing reports of people being stung to death because they accidentally knocked down a hive while working in the yard or mowed over a burrow. I think everyone, after the initial panic, just learned to recalibrate their behavior around hives and got accustomed to the "new normal".
We now can see that local fauna have adapted to eating the stinkbugs. And maybe some harsh winters helped kill some eggs. Not to mention pesticides that target stinkbugs showing up in stores. But we couldn't have foreseen that. It was just as likely to become another gypsy moth problem. People in the southwest I expect had the same concern about africanized bees.
Now, how are you doing with the crazy ants these days?
Also they give real bees and other wasps a bad rep. The only time a bee stung me was because I was lying on it, I was more sorry for it than me.