During the three-year effort, multiple nests were detected and successfully ... agencies proved critical in the success of the Asian giant hornet eradication project. "The fact of the matter ...

WASHINGTON STATE — The northern giant hornet, which used to be referred to as the Asian giant hornet or murder ... The work to find and destroy nests went on for several years, until 2021 ...

FILE - A Washington State Department of Agriculture worker displays an Asian giant hornet taken from a nest, Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)(Elaine Thompson / AP ...

previously known as the Asian giant hornet or the more colorful “murder hornet,” since late summer 2021 when four nests were found and destroyed in Whatcom County in northern Washington along ...

PHOTO: 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 in Blaine, Wash., ...

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 Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine ...

A Washington State Department of Agriculture worker displays an Asian giant hornet taken from a nest, Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) SEATTLE — The world’s ...

A forest worker holds two of the dozens of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a tree in 2020 (Elaine Thompson/AP) Scientists destroyed the nest just as a number of queens were just beginning to ...