With the start of July comes the kickoff of Asian giant hornet trapping season.
This is the time of year when worker hornets start emerging from their nests and can be trapped. The season generally lasts through December, at which time the hornets go into winter hibernation.
For the third summer in a row, entomologists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture will be heading up to Northwest Whatcom County, the only place where the hornets have been found in previous years, to start the trapping and tracking effort.
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Karla Salp, acting communications director for the department, said this
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