Chris Packham on the Asian hornet: there are bigger enemies than these bovver buzzers

It has a shocking habit of decapitating bees, but in a global biodiversity crisis we should be more worried about pesticides'So weird and beautiful': readers' nominations for invertebrate of the yearThe Asian hornet has rapidly become the grey squirrel or the Japanese knotweed of our insect fauna.From the panicked response to the appearance of this insect, one would think it was a giant monster. In fact, Asian hornets are smaller than our native hornets and can be identified by their orange faces, yellow-tipped legs and darker abdomens. Their diet is other flying insects, and they will hover outside beehives and munch up huge amounts. Continue reading...