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Asian giant hornet or Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica). In Japanese it is known as the oosuzumebachi literally "giant sparrow bee".

Monstrous ‘murder hornets’ have reached the US

Source: Live Science

A recent arrival to the United States, Vespa mandarinia is a species of hornet capable of stinging multiple times and destroying honeybee colonies.

This entry was posted in The Natural World and tagged Science & Nature on May 5, 2020 by Mikki Gibson.

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