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What to look for this week
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European hornet
Emerging in April, the queen European hornets are now starting to make nests in hollow trees. Around 3cm in length with a brown thorax and yellowish orange and brown-red stripes along the abdomen this is one of our largest species of social wasps.
It is docile unless nest sites are threatened