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 ...

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At least 37 giant live beetles measuring 4 to 5 inches have been found concealed inside of multiple packages of Japanese ...

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

YouTube channel Insects Sniper has captured time-lapse footage an Asian giant hornet queen building her nest over a three-day period. The nest is made from chewed wood and saliva which gives it a ...

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.

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 ...