hornet

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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

This suggests that the frogs in the study may have developed a dual resistance to both the painful and harmful effects of hornet venom, allowing them to successfully hunt and consume hornet workers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

Following the initial sighting, live traps were deployed to monitor Asian hornet activity.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Sightings of the invading Asian or yellow-legged hornet, which arrived in the UK in 2016, are also on the rise.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley