They pose the biggest threat to honeybees, which are highly vulnerable to giant hornet attacks. Just a handful of hornets can wipe out an entire hive in about 90 minutes. Of course, you wouldn’t ...

A Washington State Department of Agriculture team is seen after removing hornets from the first northern giant hornet nest detected in the U.S., during October 2020. (Courtesy of Washington State ...

Washington turned out to be well prepared for the arrival of the northern giant hornet. Owing to a spate of attacks by northern giant hornets in China in 2013 – including many fatalities ...

The Washington and U.S. Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021. The news represented ...

"They also attack other insects but are not known to ... When the species first arrived in the U.S., it was known as the Asian giant hornet. But in July of 2022, the Entomological Society of ...

So-called "murder hornets" have been eradicated from the U.S., officials announced Wednesday, five years after the invasive species was first identified in Washington state. The northern giant ...

The Washington and U.S. Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021. The news ...

The Northern giant hornet, more commonly known as the "murder hornet," has been eradicated in the U.S., agriculture officials said Wednesday. The ominously nicknamed invasive species was confirmed to ...

The so-called "murder hornet" has been eradicated from the United States, five years after the invasive species was first discovered in Washington state, officials declared Wednesday. There have been ...

The hornets were first detected in North America in British Columbia, Canada, in August 2019 and confirmed in Washington state in December 2019, when a Whatcom County resident reported a specimen.