Posts Tagged: Asian giant hornet
Bohart Museum of Entomology Sets Special Events for Fall Season
Bohart Museum of Entomology officials have announced their schedule of special weekend...
This is a mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron caementarium. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This work, "Harlequin Bug," is by Mary Foley Benson when she worked as a scientific illustrator for the Smithsonian Institution. It was published in 1952 in "Insects: Yearbook of Agriculture."
This is a flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Murder Hornets: Murder in the First Degree?
Want to learn about "murder hornets?" Entomologists cringe every time someone substitutes the...
The Asian giant hornet, which the news media named "murder hornet." (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture)
This Is NOT an Asian Giant Hornet
Nope, not an Asian giant hornet. Not even close. It's a Jerusalem cricket, sometimes called a...
This is a Jerusalem cricket, commonly known as a "potato bug." Someone once described it as a "cricket on steroids." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the Asian giant hornet. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture.)
What You Need to Know About That Invasive Giant Hornet
It's good to see Washington State University Extension's newly published, updated fact sheet on the...
This is a female Vespa mandarinia japonica by Yasunori Koide. (Creative Commons photo)
Screen shot of the life cycle that appears in the WSU Extension fact sheet on the Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia. (Courtesy of WSU)
Trapping the Asian Giant Hornet
Just when folks were beginning to think "it may be over and done" regarding Asian giant hornet...
This is the Asian giant hornet trapped July 14 at Birch Bay, Whatcom County, Washington. (Photo courtesy of Washington State Department of Food and Agriculture)
These Asian giant hornet images from the Washington State Department of Agriculture shows (from left), an example of a worker; the specimen collected July 14; an example of the queen.
This map on Stephane De Greef's Facebook page, "Is This a Murder Hornet," shows the 10-mile radius where the Asian giant hornets were found. (Map courtesy of Stephane De Greef)