Wasps, with their big eyes and weirdly delicate dangling legs, send shivers down the spine. I've been stung once in my life, and my seven-year-old mind manufactured a horror-movie scene involving ...

But nine months earlier, the Asian giant hornet had already arrived in the sleepy Vancouver Island town of Nanaimo, where a group of dedicated beekeepers discovered the first nest on the continent.

The dissection of Asian hornet nests is being carried out to inform the strategy used to manage the invasive species in Guernsey. The species, which feeds on honeybees and other pollinators ...