Georgia is now home to the murder hornet’s first cousin ... Georgia’s beekeeping industry: The hornet is a voracious predator of honey bees, and even if it fails to kill a colony, it can ...

Georgia Department of Agriculture says residents should start watching out for yellow-legged hornets. Are these murder ...

They are particularly threatening to honey bees and other native insects that ... are not to be confused with the headline grabbing “murder hornets” (Vespa mandarinia). They are a different ...

Aside from the danger to humans, the murder hornet presents a danger to agriculture and the apiary industry, Mr Spichiger said, because the insect is known to attack honey bees, with a few of the ...

Each strike took just an instant, the predators snatching bees out of the air and then flying away with their victims, which would be carved up later and fed to the hornets’ own ravenous larvae.

Yellow-legged hornets are roughly half as big as murder hornets (about 0.7-1 inch long). As with other wasps and bees, yellow-legged hornets can sting humans or animals if agitated, according to ...