That’s one way to encourage social distancing! MURDER HORNETS arrive in US in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic – By Russia Today Staff (Russia Today) / May 2 2020
Asian giant hornets (known as ‘murder hornets’) have shown up in the US for the first time, giving Americans a “refreshing” change of pace and something else to worry about other than the deadly Covid-19 pandemic
In any other year, reports of murder hornets being in the US for the first time ever might instill some fear in people, but with the news dropping in the midst of a pandemic that has crippled the economy and left people under strict lockdown orders, it appears to have been greeted mostly with humor.
Maybe this has broken me but I honestly think the murder hornets are a refreshing change of pace!
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 2, 2020
‘Murder hornets’, a name coined by researchers, popped up for the first time in the US in December when four sightings were verified by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA), according to a report from the New York Times.
Asian giant hornets are the largest hornet species in the world. They destroy honeybee hives by killing the bees and using them to feed their young. According to the WSDA, it only takes a few hornets to decimate a honeybee hive in a matter of hours.
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