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 ...

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 ...

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.

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., May 4, ...

"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 ...