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 ...

Officials announced the eradication of Vespa mandarinia, marking the end of a 5-year battle to protect pollinators from the invasive species ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the help of everyday people, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Washington state’s agriculture agency declared victory — murder hornets have been wiped out. The giant hornets can ...

The U.S. Navy is now officially using “Murder Hornet” to refer to F/A-18E/F fighters armed with five AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and four AIM-9X Sidewinders. The ...

The Northern giant hornet, more commonly known as the "murder hornet," has been eradicated in the U.S., agriculture officials said Wednesday. The ominously nicknamed invasive species was confirmed to ...

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 ...

"They also attack other insects but are not known to ... When the species first arrived in the U.S., it was known as the Asian giant hornet. But in July of 2022, the Entomological Society of ...