Hornets and bees are both feared insects for their painful stings. Both are quick-flying, hive-building insects that work ...

The yellow-legged Asian hornet is a "highly aggressive" invasive species of hornet that has been spreading like wildfire ...

European hornets. The European hornet, species Vespa crabro, is native to Europe and Asia and is now widespread across North America. This hornet is a large social woodland wasp, ...

A study of Asian hornets has found about 1,400 different species in their guts. University of Exeter researchers tested Asian ...

Adding to the mystery, the lab found that the hornets from Whatcom County and Vancouver Island were unrelated, thus indicating the species had been introduced in at least two separate incidents.

"This species happens to prefer honey bees," experts from the University of Florida's extension service said of yellow-legged hornets. The two invasive hornet species pose a number of problems for ...

Hornets, however, are among the insects that can sting and sting again. The latest hornet identification key lists 22 species: striped and spangled in various browns and rusts, gold and bluish-blacks.

Bald-faced hornets are an easily identifiable species of yellow jacket. Unlike most other yellow jacket species, the bald-faced hornet has black and white or ivory coloring on its face, thorax ...

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, ... "Most hornets prey on other insects' larvae, and many species of hornets target nests of other social bees and wasps," the Land-Grant Press says, ...

Yellow-legged hornets, invasive species and relative to murder hornet, has been found in the U.S. The sixth nest was found and destroyed in Georgia.