{"id":9119,"date":"2020-05-29T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"winters-helping-hand-heath-macmillian-discusses-the-murder-hornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/winters-helping-hand-heath-macmillian-discusses-the-murder-hornet\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter&#8217;s Helping Hand: Heath MacMillian Discusses the &#8220;Murder Hornet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>With a new invasive insect knocking on Canada&#8217;s door, the so called &#8220;murder hornet&#8221; has yet to be spotted this year. Biology Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heath MacMillan<\/a> believes that our harsh winter&#8217;s might be to thank for this. Different insects have varying cold tolerances and invasive pest and insects can have a difficult time establishing because of our winters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Canada&#8217;s latest invasive species at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/murder-hornets-may-spread-east-from-b-c-if-not-eradicated-entomologist-says-1.4923941?cache=%2F5-things-to-know-for-friday-november-15-2019-1.4687011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/murder-hornets-may-spread-east-from-b-c-if-not-eradicated-entomologist-says-1.4923941?cache=%2F5-things-to-know-for-friday-november-15-2019-1.4687011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new invasive insect knocking on Canada&#8217;s door, the so called &#8220;murder hornet&#8221; has yet to be spotted this year. Biology Professor Heath MacMillan believes that our harsh winter&#8217;s might be to thank for this. Different insects have varying cold tolerances and invasive pest and insects can have a difficult time establishing because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}