Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, ...

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

When the northern giant hornet—nicknamed the “murder hornet”—first showed up in Washington state in 2019, it sparked a wave ...

The murder hornet, formally known as the northern giant hornet, has been eradicated five years after it was first spotted in Washington state, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA ...

Mattila and colleagues, who spent hundreds of hours observing bees at a Vietnamese apiary, found that honeybees began adding feces to their hive entrances after natural attacks by giant hornets.

Dead northern giant hornets, queens, lined up on top and smaller workers below — all samples brought in for research — are displayed with a field notebook on May 7th, 2020, in Blaine, Washington.

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 ...

The Asian giant hornet's life cycle begins when queens come out of hibernation and begin to feed and seek out places to build their nests. Once their habitats are built, worker hornets are sent to ...

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 ...

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.