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they ve survived over the winter, they re no more dangerous to humans than uk hornets but can be lethal to bees and wasps. a nurse to patient hornets can eat about 11 kilos of insects a year, that equates to over 90,000 heady days of that was the exclusive diets a nest of asian hornets can eat. they are a top predator with no natural enemies in the uk, it is another enemy for our honeybees and other pollinators that we could really live without. measuring two and a half centimetres long, asian hornets have dark bodies with a wide orange stripe and bright yellow lower legs. they were more commonly seen in france, but eight years ago nests were spotted in south east england mainly in kent and east sussex with one credible sighting in lancashire. so far this year, there have been 15 sightings, but by this time last year there had only been three. since 2016 there have been 116 sightings across the uk.

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