Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.

They pose the biggest threat to honeybees, which are highly vulnerable to giant hornet attacks. Just a handful of hornets can wipe out an entire hive in about 90 minutes. Of course, you wouldn’t ...

A Washington State Department of Agriculture team is seen after removing hornets from the first northern giant hornet nest detected in the U.S., during October 2020. (Courtesy of Washington State ...

The Washington and U.S. Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021. The news ...

So-called "murder hornets" have been eradicated from the U.S., officials announced Wednesday, five years after the invasive species was first identified in Washington state. The northern giant ...

Washington turned out to be well prepared for the arrival of the northern giant hornet. Owing to a spate of attacks by northern giant hornets in China in 2013 – including many fatalities ...

A sharp increase in hornet attacks across Japan this autumn following ... The man, who was in his 50s, was searching for an Asian giant hornet’s nest when he was stung in the ear and back.

The Washington and U.S. Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021. The news represented ...

The hornets were first detected in North America in British Columbia, Canada, in August 2019 and confirmed in Washington state in December 2019, when a Whatcom County resident reported a specimen.