Asian hornets, which eat honeybees and threaten crops, are on a path to becoming established in Britain after invading mainland Europe, experts say.
A significant increase in Asian hornet sightings in the United Kingdom is raising alarm because of concerns that the hornets could ravage local bee populations., mostly in southern England. That was up from two last year and two in 2021.This “is very concerning,” said John Stoskopf Ascher, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore’s biological sciences department. “If this many hornets and their nests are being detected then there must be a lot more of them,” he said.
The hornets, native to Southern Asia, have colonized East Asia and parts of Europe including France, where they were found in 2004. Asian hornets feed on bees,
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