ATLANTA – Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper announced on Wednesday, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia, the discovery and destruction of a second yellow-legged hornet’s nest on Wilmington Island near Savannah.
The first live detection of a yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) in the open United States was confirmed in Georgia on Aug. 9. Shortly after, on Aug. 23, a yellow-legged hornet’s nest was located and destroyed by department staff and pest management professionals in a residential neighborhood on Wilmington Island. The yellow-legged hornet is a non-native species that, if allowed to establish in the United States, could threaten honey production, native pollinators, and Georgia’s No. 1 industry — agriculture.
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