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hornet

[hawr-nit] / ˈhɔr nɪt /


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A hornet sting can trigger sharp pain, tissue damage, and serious systemic problems such as the destruction of red blood cells and cardiac dysfunction, any of which can be fatal.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

To investigate whether pond frogs evade or tolerate these potentially lethal stings, Sugiura presented individual adult frogs with workers of three hornet species, Vespa simillima, V. analis, and V. mandarinia, in controlled laboratory trials.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

If you spot an Asian hornet, take a photograph of it and upload it to the Asian Hornet Watch app.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Let’s return to one of our original questions: Why don’t our institutions, with the exception of the hornet eradication apparatus, work?

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2024

But to his surprise, Wolf leapt up as if he’d been stung by a hornet.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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