‘Murder hornets’: race to protect North America's honeybees from giant invader

Amateur beekeepers and scientists do the whole CSI thing' to stem the feared onslaught

It took Moufida and John Holubeshen just a day of tracing alleged sightings and studying map coordinates before the two amateur detectives found their target.

We did the whole CSI thing," says Moufida. Plotting points and drawing lines, searching for where the middle of the circle - the nest - would be."