The Washington and US Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021. The news ...

If you’ve been wondering whatever happened with the invasion of so-called murder hornets a few years back, we’ve finally got an answer. The northern giant hornet, commonly known as the murder ...

Now they’re murdered hornets. The world’s largest hornet dubbed the “murder hornet” has officially been eradicated from the US, according to officials. The northern giant hornet burrowed ...

Danielsen’s work dates back to early 2020, when she first heard about the “slaughter phase” of the murder hornet — officially known as the northern giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia.

So-called "murder hornets" have been eradicated from the U.S., officials announced Wednesday, five years after the invasive species was first identified in Washington state. The northern giant ...