Hornets and bees are both feared insects for their painful stings. Both are quick-flying, hive-building insects that work ...

A giant, bee-killing insect dubbed the “murder hornet” is making inroads in the United States, threatening crops that depend on pollination, and humans who may get in its way.

Giant murder hornets attack a honey bee hive in Vietnam. Credit: Heather Mattila/Wellesley College Piping signals accounted for the vast majority (about 95 percent) of the signals in the data set ...

When Vespa soror — giant hornets found in parts of Asia — attack a honeybee hive, they kill as many bees as possible, decapitating them and scouring the hive to harvest their young. To protect ...

Giant hornets (Vespa soror) are a sister species to so-called murder hornets (Vespa mandarinia).They're also one of the deadliest predators of Asian honey bees (Apis cerana).They attack hives in ...

Each year in Japan, these hornets cause about 30 to 50 human deaths, and not all of them are due to venom allergy. Furthermore, the giant hornets are known for murdering bees.

Originally from eastern and southeast Asia, the giant hornet eats other insects like wasps and bees. In fact, the hornet is known for wiping out full colonies of honeybees, which is alarming since ...

The Northern giant hornet is the world's largest known hornet measuring 1.5–2 inches in length. It has a head as wide as its shoulders, where the wings and legs are located, or wider, and it is ...

In late summer, we often see bees, hornets and wasps and their nests. Let’s look at some you’re likely to see in and around your backyard. Honeybees are about 5/8 of an inch long, orangish ...

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, is a close cousin of the northern giant hornet, or "murder hornet." Both of them are very adept in the wholesale destruction of honey bees.

The Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the murder hornet, is getting a new moniker. This week, the Entomological Society of America announced that it will officially adopt the term “northern ...

Hornets and bees are both feared insects for their painful stings. ... Asian giant hornets can get up to 2 inches long. Hornets are stockier in appearance compared to other wasps, ...