hornet
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The bee team fighting a murderous hornet invasion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
All of those within the hive need fed and the Asian hornet can eat up to 50 honey bees a day.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Sightings of the invading Asian or yellow-legged hornet, which arrived in the UK in 2016, are also on the rise.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Principal Principal sits back in his chair and doodles a hornet.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
According to Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura, "Although stomach-content studies had shown that pond frogs sometimes eat hornets, no experimental work had ever examined how this occurs."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
Richard Gray, the head of the biodiversity and wildlife Branch at the NIEA, said the "aggressive predator" can have nests with "up to 8,000 individual hornets or grubs".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
We get up to see that we have disturbed a hornets nest.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
