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Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
As if the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough to deal with last year, the United States also had to confront the threat of a potential invasion of murder hornets. While that might sound like the premise of a B-movie from the 1950s, it was a very worrisome situation when these bee-slaughtering insects typically found in Japan were suddenly spotted in America. It’s a fascinating subject for Discovery+ to cover in a new documentary called
Attack of the Murder Hornets, and we have an exclusive clip for you to watch.
Attack of the Murder Hornets Clip
Attack of the Murder Hornets: Discovery’s New Doc Showcases Real Life Horror Story Believe the hype! Murder hornets are here, but can we find them in time to save the bees?
Jolie Lash | March 4, 2021 - 9:00 am
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It’s hard to overstate just how big the problem of the unexpected second villain of our global annus horribilis – the “murder hornet” –
could be.
Its body is the size of a bloated cheese-puff, its wingspan as wide as your palm. These rusty-orange-colored insects aren’t just the largest hornets in the world, they are apex predator wasps that made their presence known in late 2019 in Washington State after decimating (by decapitating) a defenseless colony of beekeeper Ted McFall’s western honeybees – 60,000 of them.