If you are unfortunate enough to have a big insect nest attached to your house – you will want to know whether it belongs to ...

Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

How to Get Rid of Hornets. It's best to leave the hornet nest alone unless you find one in your home or near busy areas. The frost will kill off the hornets in the fall, and they won’t return to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The first Asian Hornet, better known as a "murder" hornet, was spotted in the U.S. for the first time in late 2019. Since then, Kentucky bee specialists have been ...

The first nest of the yellow-legged hornet was eradicated Aug. 23, two weeks after Georgia officials confirmed the hornet’s presence in the U.S. Georgia Department of Agriculture Two weeks after ...

Also known as Vespa velutina hornets, their nests are generally egg-shaped and can house up to 6,000 worker wasps. Their legs are mostly or partially covered in yellow, giving them their name.

Around 225,000 emergency room visits and 100 deaths per year are due to wasp stings. When wasps feel their nest is threatened, they can coordinate a defensive attack.

It’s unlikely Asian giant hornets will make their way from Washington to Kentucky, but state officials will be prepared either way. Three traps likely will be set next week in Lexington for the ...

Hornets are wasps, but not every wasp is a hornet. They do have a few distinctive behaviors, like building large, cone- or egg-shaped nests. You really should not mess with them and if you find a ...

The dissection of Asian hornet nests is being carried out to inform the strategy used to manage the invasive species in Guernsey. The species, which feeds on honeybees and other pollinators, was ...

A large bald-faced hornet’s nest is attached to our house very close to a grill. (Tim Johnson / Chicago Botanic Garden) By Tim Johnson. PUBLISHED: September 29, 2024 at 5:00 AM CDT.