From KCRA 3
October 23, 2020
BLAINE, Wash. —
They’re here, and they’re apparently making themselves at home.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture on Friday confirmed they located the first Asian giant hornet nest in the U.S.
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The nest was inside a hole in a tree located on “private property near an area cleared for a residential home,” WSDA said in a news release.
WSDA said its team saw dozens of the so-called “murder hornets” exiting and entering the tree.
The department spent weeks trapping the giant hornets and have been actively searching for them since the first hornets were caught earlier this year. The hornets were first detected in Washington in December the first one was trapped in July.