The Asian Hornet Watch app, which has received around 12,500 reports of sightings from the public in the UK so far this year, though only a fraction of these are confirmed as yellow-legged hornet ...

He noted that other invasive hornets could also pose problems: Officials in Georgia and South Carolina are fighting yellow-legged hornets, and southern giant hornets were recently detected in Spain.

"Our predictions suggest that the attempts to tackle the yellow-legged hornet [Asian hornet] in these countries [the UK] have so far been successful in limiting its spread. "This is due to the ...

The Asian or yellow-legged hornet can kill 50 bees a day (Alamy/PA) Rapid action against an invasive bee-killing hornet has stopped its spread in the UK despite suitable climate and habitat for ...

He noted that other invasive hornets can also pose problems: Officials in Georgia and South Carolina are fighting yellow-legged hornets, and southern giant hornets were recently detected in Spain.