About 30-50 people die annually from Northern giant hornet stings in Japan, one of their native habitats. Had the hornets become established in the country, they could have posed a significant ...
PHOTO: Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington state Department of Agriculture, poses for a photo with an Asian giant hornet from Japan mounted on a pin in Olympia, Wash., May 4, 2020.
Owing to a spate of attacks by northern giant hornets in China in 2013 – including ... is responsible for as many as 50 deaths a year in Japan – the insect has caused sleepless nights for ...
The northern giant hornet, which is native to Asian countries including China and Japan, was first detected in North America in August 2019 in British Columbia, Canada. It was confirmed in ...