A species of enormous hornets has found its way to Europe for the first time.
The southern giant hornet (Vespa soror) is native to a broad swath of tropical Asia, but four of the immense insects were recently discovered in Spain, researchers report November 9 in Ecology and Evolution. If the supersize sojourners manage to establish populations on the continent, they could threaten humans, honeybees and other animals.
The discovery is “a little worrying” says Phil Lester, an entomologist at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. V. soror is “a known aggressive honeybee eater. It’s going to attack an awful lot of things,” says Lester, including other
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