First live ‘murder hornet’ sighted near U.S.-Canada border, say scientists
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This article was published 12/08/2021 (1608 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they’ve found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year.
In a news release Thursday, entomologists say the Asian giant hornet was seen about a kilometre from the U.S.-Canada border.
They say the hornet was reported by a Whatcom County resident on Wednesday and confirmed the following day where a photograph showed it attacking a paper wasp nest, about three kilometres from where the department eradicated a nest last October.
They say U.S. and B.C. officials will be setting up traps in the area to catch a live hornet, tag it and track it back to its nest.
The five-centimetre-long invasive insects are the world’s biggest hornets and prey on honey bees and other hornets — a small group can kill an entire honey bee hive in a matter of hours.
While they are not particularly aggressive toward humans, in rare cases a person stung repeatedly by murder hornets could die.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2021.