Have you heard the "buzz" about hornets in North Carolina? I saw a huge one -- one of many nesting outside of the laundry room window. Their appearance looked eerily similar to that of the so-called ...

A video of a giant hornet attacking a mouse has emerged following news a "murder" species has invaded the U.S. In the clip, the hornet pursues the mouse for roughly a minute, remaining attached as the ...

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The bang-bang (all-or-nothing) reproductive strategy model for annual eusocial insect colonies, proposed by S. Macevicz, G. Oster, and E. O. Wilson, does not apply to temperate vespine wasps. Errors ...

Wasps and bees are hard to avoid in the warm summer months, though hornets are lesser-spotted. The UK’s native hornet, known as Vespa crabro, plays an important role as a pollinator and predator of ...