OLYMPIA, Wash.—Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they’ve found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year. In a news release Thursday, entomologists say the Asian giant hornet was seen about a kilometre from the U.S.-Canada border. They say the hornet was reported by a Whatcom County resident on Wednesday and confirmed the following day where a photograph showed it attacking a paper wasp nest, about three kilometres from where the department eradicated a nest last October. They say U.S. and B.C. officials will be setting up traps in the area to catch a live hornet, tag it and track it back to its nest. The five-centimetre-long invasive insects are the world’s biggest hornets and prey on honey bees and other hornets— a small group can kill an entire honey bee hive in a matter of hours. While they are not particularly aggressive toward humans, in …