DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a>: Wasp altered by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> destroying <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beehives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beehives</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VespaOrientalis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VespaOrientalis</span></a> has wrecked 40,000 beehives in three regions</p><p>"An Italian wasp which has turned into a more aggressive alien species due to climate change is wreaking havoc among Italian beehives, green farming officials told ANSA Tuesday.</p><p>"The Vespa Orientalis hornet has become just the latest of threats to bees, whose declining numbers are jeopardising agriculture worldwide, said Laura Bortolotti, lead researcher of the Crea AA - Agriculture Environment think tank.<br> <br>"The hornet has recently destroyed some 40,000 beehives in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lazio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lazio</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Campania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Campania</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Molise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Molise</span></a> officials said.</p><p>"'Despite being a native species in Italy, the Vespa Orientalis is behaving as if it were an alien species; its behavior towards bees has changed in a few years, becoming increasingly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aggressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aggressive</span></a>, also due to climate change which, in some way, has altered the environmental balance', Bortolotti told ANSA.</p><p>"Vespa Orientalis is also an increasing threat to public health in urban areas, they said."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2025/01/14/wasp-made-alien-by-climate-change-destroying-beehives_f7ea8991-9ca1-4c54-9cc6-e436909ec6c8.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ansa.it/english/news/2025/01/1</span><span class="invisible">4/wasp-made-alien-by-climate-change-destroying-beehives_f7ea8991-9ca1-4c54-9cc6-e436909ec6c8.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honeybees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honeybees</span></a></p>