This past summer, a colony of bald-faced wasps took up residence right next to my garage door. Because I know how beneficial ...

Once removed the nests are double bagged, and zip tied to prevent contamination during transit. All nests are placed in a ...

“We have, as they say, hit a hornet’s nest. We have stirred up another hot spot,” said Stepan Lutsiv, a major in the 95th ...

The Washington Wizards are back from their mini Christmas break as they take on the Charlotte Hornets in the nation's capital for the second time in a week. Last Thursday, the Hornets came to town ...

Authorities responded by targeting and eliminating the hornets' nests. In 2020, scientists used dental floss to attach tiny radio trackers to live hornets and then followed them back to their ...

In 2020 and 2021, four invasive northern giant hornet nests were discovered in Alder tree cavities in Washington state. (Karla Salp/Washington State Dept. of Agriculture) Northern giant hornets ...

The world’s largest hornet, native to Asia, had arrived mysteriously in 2019, but intense eradication efforts prevented the ...

To do so, first entomologists had to find the hornets' nests. Finding the nests can be a challenge, because the hornets typically build their nests in forested areas, often in an underground ...

Since the first sightings in 2019, WSDA has worked to eradicate four different murder hornet nests in the state. The department continued to set up traps through 2024, but no more hornets were ever ...

At the same time, state trappers were working in areas where they knew there were murder hornets. In October 2020, state officials eradicated a nest — at the time, the country’s only known nes ...