ATLANTA — Tyler Harper, Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner is encouraging Georgians to report embryo nests to ...

Yellow-legged hornets feed on a variety of insects, including honeybees. A small handful of nests have been found in the U.S. But, if allowed to establish, these invasive pests could threaten ...

Of the top 50 invertebrate prey species identified, 43 are known to visit flowers—and among these were Europe's three main crop pollinators: the European honey bee, the buff-tailed bumblebee and the ...

Also known as yellow-legged-hornets, Asian hornets are a social species of predatory wasp. They are about one inch long and can build nests that can contain up to 6,000 workers. They are native to ...

Georgians urged to report Yellow-Legged Hornet embryo nests to prevent larger infestations. Embryo nests appear March-April, about the size of a ping-pong or tennis ball in sheltered areas.

As Georgia approaches spring, officials are again warning of an invasive species that targets bees. The yellow-legged hornets, known by the scientific name Vespa velutina, pose a threat to ...

Researchers had the stomach-churning task of analysing food found in the guts of hornet larvae. This would have all been fed to them by adults, who caught prey to taken it back to the nest.

They identified 1,449 different prey which had been fed by adult hornets to their larvae in the nests, more than half of which (55%) could be identified as a specific species. Prey included a wide ...

Researchers from the University of Exeter carried out analysis to identify prey in the guts of more than 1,500 hornet larvae from 103 nests in Jersey, France, Spain and the UK. They raised ...