hornet
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Its aim is to keep hornet numbers low and it is therefore asking people to report sightings so it can destroy primary nests.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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
Principal Principal sits back in his chair and doodles a hornet.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
People in Guernsey are being asked to "track" not "trample" Asian hornets in an effort to protect public health and the island's biodiversity.
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
Yet certain animals, including some birds, spiders, and frogs, regularly prey on adult hornets.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
How blown away must Fry and Big Foot have been by The Ax and his bionic arm to admit defeat like this to a bunch of hornets.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
