Wildlife officials said they have captured a queen of an invasive type of hornet that has moved in across the Southeast. The yellow-legged hornet is a social wasp species that builds egg-shaped ...

They range in size from 1/2 to 5/8 of an inch long, with the queen reaching 3/4 of an inch in length. Bald-faced hornets live in social colonies that can contain up to 400 workers by the end of ...

The invasive hornet was a queen, removed from the environment before being able to start a new colony. Brad Cavin, apiary inspection coordinator with Clemson University, said it was his department ...