For the first time in America ... a nest of killer giant hornets was spotted

It was observed for the first time on American soil, after months of searching, a nest of giant Asian hornets considered by experts to be the greatest in the world, and some call them "killer wasps."

And the Washington State Department of Agriculture stated that the nest was spotted last Thursday on a private property in Blaine, near the border with Canada, a city in the state located in the northwestern United States.

The statement indicated that experts will try to take into account the eradication of the den to avoid the spread of invasive wasps, which have a length of about five centimeters.

The ministry explained that "the nest site has been determined thanks to the capture of two live specimens of the giant Asian hornet on the 21st of this month, using traps of a new type deployed in the region."

On Thursday morning, two other wasps were also found alive, after the ministry team supplied the two previously captured hornets with transmitters in order to be able to track them to infer the nest.

The search for wasps began in the families of the first two samples in December 2019 in the same area.

It is still unclear how this type of giant hornet called "Vespa Mandarinia" arrived in the United States, where it could permanently colonize if proper measures were not taken to prevent it from doing so.

This species differs from the "yellow-legged" Asian hornet (Vespa Filotina nigretorax) that began to colonize part of Western Europe.

It is believed that it was reached by a shipment of pottery sourced from China, which was delivered in southwestern France, and began to spread from there.

In Japan, where insects are sometimes hunted to eat them, between 30 and 50 people die annually as a result of the stings of giant hornets.

As for the main threat posed by wasps, it is to bee settlements that are already declining in several regions of the world.

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