BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 28, 2020
There are no Asian giant hornets — the so-called “murder hornets” that have been making headlines this year — in Maine. But there is a lookalike hornet that’s leading to reports of sightings here and around New England every time murder hornets are in the national news, state agricultural officals said. What people are seeing isn’t the Asian giant hornet, according to Gary Fish, state horticulturist. Instead, they are seeing European giant hornets, a more benign and bit smaller species that’s been in this region since the early 1800s.