https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJ1tQOzLMs
The media so far seems to be doing a poor job regarding Vespa mandarina. I came across this video and the thing I realized is how so many clips are NOT of Vespa mandarina even while the whole subject of the video is about that species. This “difference” in the auditory and visual information may result in the general public making the wrong connections (though I don’t know if there is any research regarding how people correlate audio vs visual information).
Here’s the “misidentifications” I found (please correct for mistakes):
0:28 - Thats a beetle
0:34 - Vespa tropica
1:00 - Vespa velutina (same as the video thumbnail)
1:19 - NOT even European honeybees
1:39 - Vespa soror
1:42 - YES for Vespa mandarina
2:07 - Vespa crabro
The truth is the general public will be going to videos such as this, so it is very important that the information should be reiterated with as little bias as possible.