"The location was well within the flight distance from the US nests."
Posts tagged as “Northern giant hornet”
"We received a concerning report of a suspected Asian giant hornet today - concerning because of the location, which is much further east than any confirmed sighting."
This nest was reported last Saturday during an announcement that the 3rd nest had been eradicated.
While finishing up with the 2nd nest found this year, plans are being made to eradicate a 3rd.
Plans are to eradicate this latest nest within the next few days.
"We expect there are more nests out there and, like this one, we hope to find them before they can produce new queens."
WSDA entomologists are planning to eradicate the nest next week.
The captured hornets were equipped with tracking devices to be followed back to their nest(s).
This hornet is exhibiting the same behavior we saw last year – attacking paper wasp nests.”