Who Stirred Up the Hornets' Nest? Science and Technology Life, Episode 20091018

This episode features a man who spent more than twenty years dealing with hornets and is one of the few hornet experts in China. He has traveled all over the length and breadth of the motherland in order to understand the distribution and habits of hornets. He once artificially bred hundreds of thousands of hornet colonies in order to wipe out pests in cotton fields. After retirement, he has repeatedly offered advice and suggestions for eradicating the “killer bees.” He is Li Tiesheng, a researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and one of the few experts in China who studies hornets, Li Tiesheng. In the 1970s and 1980s, hornets needed to be artificially bred to wipe out pests in cotton fields, but in the new century, incidents of hornets stinging people have emerged one after another. Why exactly is this? Are hornets beneficial insects or pests? How exactly should humans live in harmony with hornets? Li Tiesheng will provide the answers. (Science and Technology Life, 2009, Episode 40)