hornet
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The bee team fighting a murderous hornet invasion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
As reported in the journal Ecosphere, Sugiura found clear evidence that adult pond frogs actively launched attacks on workers of all three hornet species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
Following the initial sighting, live traps were deployed to monitor Asian hornet activity.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Mr Williamson also raised concerns over Asian hornet nests in public areas.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Turner watched a small yellow hornet buzz listlessly around the pulpit as the priests of the Hebrew host organized their march.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
Research found that nests may produce up to 350 future queens and three times as many male hornets.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
I don’t worry when she comes home and finds Brian and the hornets on the deck, all of the hornets posing for me like some photo they saw in a magazine.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
