Agriculture and wildlife officials have announced that they have eradicated the infamous "murder hornet" from the US, five years after the headline-generating insects were first spotted in Washington state.
The "murder hornets" haven't died, but their sting is gone.
More than four years after the invasive insect was first spotted on U.S. soil -- in Washington, threatening to kill the state's honeybees -- officials said that the aptly nicknamed murder hornets had been eradicated from the United States.
