Asian Giant Hornet “Murder Hornet” Spotted In The United States; The Rush To Stop Mass Spreading

Ted Marshall claims that in all his years of beekeeping he has never come across something like this before.
He had been checking on a group of hives near Custer, Wash., in November. He states that when he arrived he was greeted by a mess of deceased bees all over the ground. When he took a closer look he saw that they were the members of the colony in front of the hive and that there was even more destruction within the hive. Thousands upon thousands of bee’s lay within with their heads torn from their bodies and the culprit nowhere to be found.
Mr. McFall states, “I couldn’t wrap my head around what could have done that.”
Only later did he come to the conclusion that the killer was the “Murder Hornet”.
Asian Giant Hornets queen’s grow to two inches long and use mandibles shaped like spiked shark fins to wipe out a honeybee’s hive in a matter of hours. Leaving behind nothing but beheaded bee’s and taking their honey to feed their young. For bigger prey the hornet uses a potent venom and stinger- long enough to puncture a beekeeping suit- that victims say feel like hot metal is being injected into their skin.
These hornets have killed up to fifty people within the time span of a year in Japan. And now they have arrived within the United States. Scientists have made sure to put out a full scale hunt for these hornets, seeing as if they are left to themselves they will decline the bee’s population if not completely destroy it.
Chris Looney, an entomologist at Washington States has claimed that “This is our window to keep it from establishing, if we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.”