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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 ...
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) or northern giant hornet, [2] [3] including the color form referred to as the Japanese giant hornet, [4] [5] is the world's largest hornet. It is native to temperate and tropical East Asia , South Asia , Mainland Southeast Asia , and parts of the Russian Far East .
The northern giant hornet was first reported in Washington state in 2019. The hornets were spotted again in the state in 2020 and 2021. ... worker holds two of the dozens of Asian giant hornets ...
Also known as Asian giant hornets, the murder hornets can be 2 inches long and are native to tropical parts of East Asia. ... There were signs of the hornet in Washington in 2019 and again in 2020 ...
PHOTO: Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington state Department of Agriculture, poses for a photo with an Asian giant hornet from Japan mounted on a pin in Olympia, Wash., May 4, 2020.
Scientists don't know for sure how the murder hornet made its way to Washington state. They say the most likely scenario is that the big bugs made their way onto a container ship docking at one of ...
The yellow hornet has the largest swarms of all of the hornet species, containing 1,000 to 2,000 workers. [citation needed] Although the yellow hornet is much smaller than the Asian giant hornet, it can be more dangerous to humans because it will attack people in greater numbers. [citation needed]
The Washington State Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the eradication on Wednesday, saying there have been no sightings of the northern giant hornet in ...