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

The Northern giant hornet, more commonly known as the ... To do so, first entomologists had to find the hornets' nests. Finding the nests can be a challenge, because the hornets typically build ...

A “monster” wasp nest in South Auckland has been destroyed, with exterminators taking two days to get rid of over 200,000 wasps. The multi-generational nest was in a conifer tree on a farm in Karaka ...

Officials say there have been no confirmed sightings of the aggressive species, native to Japan and other parts of East Asia, ...

The world’s largest hornet, an invasive breed dubbed the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a ...

The northern giant hornet was first spotted five years ago but there have been no further sightings since 2021.

The world’s largest hornet, native to Asia, had arrived mysteriously in 2019, but intense eradication efforts prevented the ...

Sven Spichiger, Washington State Department of Agriculture managing entomologist, displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him on Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine ...

it is unlikely we would be announcing the eradication of northern giant hornet today,” said Sven Spichiger, WSDA pest program manager. “All of our nest detections resulted directly or ...

The murder hornets were first discovered in China in 2013, when 1,675 people were seriously injured and 42 people died ...