For five years they have wreaked havoc in the fields of south-western France, scaring locals with their venomous stings and ravaging the bee population to feed their rapacious appetites. Now, according to French beekeepers, Asian predatory hornets have been sighted in Paris for the first time, raising the prospect of a nationwide invasion which entomologists fear could eventually reach Britain.
The Asian predatory hornet, Vespa velutina. Photograph: Jean Haxaire/AFP
More at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/25/predatory-hornet-sighting-paris-france
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