Instead, the main concern is what these hornets do to honeybees. With its spiked, dagger-like mandibles, an Asian giant hornet can decapitate 40 honeybees per minute. Within hours, a swarm of ...

Northern giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia), also known as Asian giant hornets, are an invasive species in North America but ...

What can make them more dangerous than other hornet species is that they will attack as a group, recruiting other members of the colony to join in on the stinging. The Washington State Department of ...

Update on May 29, 2020: Washington State officials have confirmed the discovery of a third Asian giant hornet, almost certainly a queen, found dead on a road near Custer, Washington. This likely ...

Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations. By Mike Baker BLAINE, Wash.

Asian giant hornets, the largest wasps in the world, were first confirmed to be in the United States in December, when hornets were sighted and a dead hornet found in the border city of Blaine ...

A resident caught a second live Asian giant hornet southeast of Blaine, but efforts to track it back to its nest using a radio tag were unsuccessful, according to the Washington State Department ...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has confirmed at least four sightings of the Asian giant hornet, one of the most venomous insects in the world, near Blaine and Bellingham ...

And through it all, there has been an undercurrent of unease about how the names “murder hornet” and even “Asian giant hornet” impact people of Asian descent, especially during the pandemic.

“Murder hornets,” a popular and menacing nickname for Asian giant hornets, are the largest species of hornet on Earth. They were first spotted in the U.S. in 2020. Could there be any in North ...