https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/02/tracking-the-murder-hornet-a-deadly-pest-has-reached-north-america-2/ > BLAINE, Wash. — 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.