Biologists at the University of Exeter have conducted the first large-scale study of the diet of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), utilizing deep sequencing to characterize the larval gut contents of over 1,500 samples from Jersey, France, Spain, and the UK. Although the European honeybee was the most common species found in the hornets, their diet is a lot broader. The analyses detected 1,449 invertebrate species, with greater prey richness in samples...
