If hornets eat nectar, does this not mean that they also function as pollinators?
Also, wasps are horrid. Are Hornets better or worse? Since they're non-native this is still an invasive species, but it's not impossible they continue to perform roles which bees are now depended on, economically.
We need to help the bees by providing them with advanced weaponry. In this case, the bees need a version of that device that was invented to burn the wings off mosquitoes using lasers targeted by a RasPi.
> scientists at University of Exeter witnessed 120 attacks that took the same course, with the bee triumphing each time.
That’s shocking frankly.
See also bees clumping around giant hornets and killing them by heat death.
"Hitting back" is a very generous interpretation of "don't get killed by the hornet (but don't kill the hornet either)". Not that I'm sad, it's great, but I think it was fair to hope for more based on the title. I also don't see evidence these are "new combat skills".
Anyway, linked study with full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05329-5