(CNN)Just when you thought 2020 could not get any worse. Now we have giant hornets with freakish eyes and a venomous sting to add to this year's list of worries.
For the first time, Asian giant hornets have been spotted in the United States, specifically in Washington state, scientists say. Beekeepers have reported piles of dead bees with their heads ripped off, an alarming sight in a country with a rapidly declining bee population.
At more than two inches long, they're the world's largest hornets with a sting that can kill humans if stung multiple times, according to experts at the Washington State University. Researchers have nicknamed them "murder hornets."
"They're like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face," Susan Cobey, a bee breeder at the Washington State University's department of entomology, said recently.
In Japan, honeybees developed a defense mechanism when the murder hornet enters their hive. The bees swarm the hornet and start vibrating their wings really fast, which generates lots of heat and C02, and it literally bakes the murderhornet to death.
Totally off topic, but of all the nonsensical, annoying little sayings that catch on and spread around the Internet ("What the actual [expletive]?" is another one that comes to mind), I think the one I despise the most is this "I was today years old" bull [expletive].
Okay, back on topic. Damn, that praying mantis [expletive] up that murder hornet.
