There is a viral news story circulating about the “murder hornet,” the unfortunate moniker of the Asian Giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia. To the entomology world, this news is actually a bit old, as it was first reported in December 2019, where a small handful of colonies were reported in the Pacific Northwest (and nowhere else in North America). As such, there are no documented cases of this new invasive insect in North Carolina.

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