hornet

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A new online map has been launched for islanders to report Asian hornet sightings in Jersey.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 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

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

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

Henry accelerated; the humming of the propeller shrilled from hornet to wasp, from wasp to mosquito; the speedometer showed that they were rising at the best part of two kilo-metres a minute.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley