Very rare scene of Hornet capturing a prey (fly). Paris suburb, Forest of Marly, Yvelines, France. 5 aug 2023. # Urban wildlife.

It is a sort of Vespa mandarinia, also known as the giant hornet, is the largest hornet species in the world. It is also the largest known social insect species. Described in the 19th century by the Englishman Frederick Smith, this species has the particularity of sometimes hunting in groups. When the nest is sufficiently developed, several hornets can leave to hunt together and thus eradicate the population of a nest of another social hymenoptera (bee, wasp or hornets of a smaller species) to use this nest as a a pantry (workers decimated, but also and especially the brood of larvae).