Have you seen this hornet? – BBC News

Have you seen this hornet? – BBC News

A new predator could soon be threatening Britain’s beleaguered bee colonies.

It is a large hornet that eats bees – and other pollinators. The so-called ‘Asian hornet’ has been been spreading across Europe over the last two decades. It reached the French coast in 2016 and the Channel Islands already have a problem.

The fear is that the UK mainland could be next, as our chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports.

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