There’s some more nightmare fuel for the U.S. as if we don’t have enough of it right now — Asian giant hornets, dubbed “murder hornets,” have appeared in the U.S. for the first time. They were spotted in Washington state in December, and they were also seen in British Columbia in Canada last fall. The two-inch-long murder hornets” are the world’s largest species of hornet.
They attack and destroy honeybee hives, and although they aren’t generally aggressive to people or pets, if provoked, they can and do kill humans in rare circumstances. It’s not known how they arrived in the U.S.
