Up to an inch and a half long, the hornet is equipped with powerful mandibles capable of shearing smaller insects to pieces. Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since ...

Finding nests involves tracking hornets. "We put out bait stations ... often involves other operatives to gain access such as tree surgeons or cherry pickers. "If the nest is in a built-up ...

Once the hornets tore off the diaspores, they carried them to other branches or to their nests, which they usually built on large, well-shaded branches near the trunk of the tree. The hornets only ...

Figuring out how to securely attach a radio tag to a hornet without harming it was a hurdle. After finding a nest in a tree, a team plugged the nest with foam, wrapped the tree in plastic and ...

as well as researchers capturing a live hornet, attaching a tiny radio tracking tag to it with dental floss, and following it through a forest to a nest in an alder tree. Scientists destroyed the nest ...

"With the leaves now being off the trees, we've had no sightings of any other potential nests being out there, so we're pretty confident we've got everything down." Sightings of Asian hornets can ...

They rarely attack people. WSDA staff opened the section of tree containing the first hornet nest detected in the United States at a Washington State University facility during COVID-19.