hornet
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So far this year, 205 Asian hornet queens have been caught and nine primary nests destroyed across Guernsey and Herm.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The bee team fighting a murderous hornet invasion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
To investigate whether pond frogs evade or tolerate these potentially lethal stings, Sugiura presented individual adult frogs with workers of three hornet species, Vespa simillima, V. analis, and V. mandarinia, in controlled laboratory trials.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
This suggests that the frogs in the study may have developed a dual resistance to both the painful and harmful effects of hornet venom, allowing them to successfully hunt and consume hornet workers.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
I wait, hoping she’ll turn back into my sister, the way she used to be, not this new hornet version.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Annelotte Baas-Jehan, Invasive Non-Native Species Policy & Coordination Officer, said volunteers had been key to capturing hornets.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The hallways lead to more hallways, the overhead fluorescents whine like hornets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Curiously, I never really got angry at the North Koreans, on the assumption that if you kick the hornet’s nest and get stung, you can’t really blame the hornets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
A frog with an unexpectedly strong resistance to venom has been identified, and it routinely eats hornets despite the insects' dangerous stingers.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
On top of that, we suffered the constant buzz of mosquitoes, blowflies, and hornets.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
