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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 murder hornets were first discovered in China in 2013, when 1,675 people were seriously injured and 42 people died The murder hornet, formally known as the northern giant hornet, has been ...

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 ...

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.

In addition to bequeathing a name on the northern giant hornet, the society also officially named two other wasp species native to Asia as the southern giant hornet and the yellow-legged hornet.