{"id":106479,"date":"2020-05-03T22:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/murder-hornets-have-officially-been-spotted-in-the-us-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2020-05-03T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:05:36","slug":"murder-hornets-have-officially-been-spotted-in-the-us-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/murder-hornets-have-officially-been-spotted-in-the-us-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Murder Hornets\u2019 Have Officially Been Spotted in The US. Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/murder-hornets-have-officially-been-spotted-in-the-us-heres-what-you-need-to-know2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if 2020 wasn\u2019t already bad enough, the US now has another problem to deal with: a terrifying monster insect nicknamed the \u201cmurder hornet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Officially called the Asian giant hornet, or <em>Vespa mandarinia<\/em>, the huge insects have been spotted in the US for the first time in recent months, appearing in Washington state, the state\u2019s Department of Agriculture says.<\/p>\n<p>The hornets, which are over two inches long, were first spotted in the state in December last year, and generally become active in the spring, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/04\/06\/wsu-scientists-enlist-citizens-hunt-giant-bee-killing-hornet\/\">researchers from Washington State University said in a post published in early April.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if 2020 wasn\u2019t already bad enough, the US now has another problem to deal with: a terrifying monster insect nicknamed the \u201cmurder hornet\u201d. Officially called the Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia, the huge insects have been spotted in the US for the first time in recent months, appearing in Washington state, the state\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}