It isn't only that the hornet kills the honey bees (it takes their bodies back to its nest to feed its larvae), it's that the effort put in by the bees to defend their colony weakens them.

那不是黄蜂仅有的杀害小蜜蜂的方法(他们把小蜜蜂的尸体带回自己的巢内喂养幼蜂)，这是蜜蜂为维护自己的殖民地削弱他们而做的努力。

youdao

It you are really angry, you might say you are mad as a hornet. Andif you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.

如果你很生气，你可以说“气的暴跳如雷”，如果你“捅马蜂窝”，你就是在制造麻烦和问题。

youdao

And if you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

Andif you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Whatever the case, I wrote a bit of a hornet-nest-stirring-post yesterday that ended up, thankfully, as something of a learning experience.

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