In 2023 the Georgia Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of the yellow-legged hornet—Vespa velutina—in the U.S. Like the northern giant “murder” hornet found in Washington ...

The species, called Vespa velutina, was first seen in Britain in 2016, after they were accidentally introduced to Europe in a container of Chinese crockery in France in 2004. Nest sightings ...

Now, with a warm start to the spring season, experts in Jersey have reported an unprecedented number of early sightings of Vespa velutina, whose sting causes an allergic reaction that can lead to ...

The manna extracted from ash trees is also edible and remarkably sweet. The tree species, also known as Fraxinus ornus in Latin, has always been part of the local vegetation. One of the hills near ...

The Department of Agriculture has reason to believe the predatory Asian hornet, also known as the yellow-legged hornet, has been making itself at home in the Peach State since a confirmed sighting ...

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Sometimes known by its scientific name, Vespa velutina, it is an aggressive insect that poses a significant threat to our friends the honeybees and other critical pollinators in Georgia’s ...

A Mandevilla velutina crude extract was investigated using the mouse micronucleus test (MNT) and the Drosophila melanogaster somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) using standard (ST) and ...

I later found out that was not the case everywhere." As an aside, we commonly see mistletoe in Vacaville on Modesto ash trees (Fraxinus velutina 'Modesto'). But not as much as we used to. And we don't ...

The Bebb Herbarium is a member of the Texas-Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) which has consolidated their plant collections into a online database. Developing a comprehensive resource ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the type of trees affected by Phanerochaete velutina. A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a cognitive test with ...

What Is a Murder Hornet? "Murder hornet" is a misleading nickname for the world’s largest species of hornet, the Asian giant hornet. As the name suggests, they originate in Asia, but they've ...