An article on Covid-19 said that Sunderland had the highest rate of infection in the UK, when “in England” was meant (“Local lockdowns just not possible without more powers and money, warn councils”, 7 June, page 4)
An article about UK sightings of the Asian hornet (The Audit, 7 June, page 41) contained a number of errors because it conflated two species: Vespa velutina, the Asian hornet, and Vespa mandarinia, the Asian giant hornet, the latter of which was pictured but has never been recorded in the UK. We said that 40 people are killed in Japan each year by the insects; that figure is an estimate of deaths caused by the Asian giant hornet. According to Defra, the smaller Asian hornet, for which the last confirmed sighting in the UK was in October 2019, poses no greater risk to human health than a bee. Although the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) preys heavily on honey bees as food for its larvae, we were wrong to say that “a hornet can eat 50 bees in a day”.
Other recently amended articles include:
French health ban keeps Allied D-day veterans away
Saint, soldier, writer: Spain celebrates forgotten women of its Golden Age
Timothy Spall: ‘The brutal, sinister world of my comedy heroes’
Pandemic production: when design is a matter of life or death
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