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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 ...
The hornets, which can be 2 inches long and were formerly called Asian giant hornets, gained attention in 2013, when they killed 42 people in China and seriously injured 1,675.
Max Matza - BBC News, Washington state. ... the Entomological Society of America changed its name to northern giant hornet from its previous "Asian giant hornet" due to concerns about anti-Asian bias.
Officials in Washington state said Thursday they had destroyed the first Asian giant hornet nest of the season, which was located near the town of Blaine along the Canadian border. The Washington ...
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.
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.
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 .
(NewsNation) — “Murder hornets,” the largest wasps in the world, have been eradicated from the United States. The U.S. and Washington Departments of Agriculture announced the news Dec. 18 ...