giving them their "bald-faced" appearance. Known for their aggressive nature, these hornets will fiercely defend their large, paper-like nests, often built high in trees. Their sting is painful ...

The placement of the nest dangling below the forked twigs, plus the few pale strips of paper from a bald-faced hornet nest woven among grass, bark, and pine needles, told me that it was likely ...

Five years later—and after four nests were successfully destroyed ... difference between a dead northern giant hornet (bottom) and a dead bald-faced hornet, which is a native species.