Tracking the 'Murder Hornet': A deadly pest has reached North America
Story Date: 5/4/2020

 

Source: Mike Baker, WRAL, 5/2/20

In his decades of beekeeping, Ted McFall had never seen anything like it. As he pulled his truck up to check on a group of hives near Custer, Washington, in November, he could spot from the window a mess of bee carcasses on the ground. As he looked closer, he saw a pile of dead members of the colony in front of a hive and more carnage inside — thousands and thousands of bees with their heads torn from their bodies and no sign of a culprit.

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