hornet

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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

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

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

He told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that the insects in Northern Ireland "haven't got the same defences that the natural prey for this hornet would have in southeast Asia".

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Styx stalked toward the woods, madder than a hornet and all alone.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon