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"text": "2020, \"The murder hornet is the 2020 B-plot you probably didn’t see coming\", Kim Lyons, The Verge\nSome days the news is upbeat and interesting and then other days the writers of the script for 2020: The Horror Show throw in a murder hornet plot twist because a pandemic is apparently not terrifying enough without two-inch hornets that rip the heads off of honeybees."
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"text": "2020, \"Murder Hornets Are In Canada Because 2020 Just Keeps On Going\", Sima Shakeri, Huffington Post\nThe New York Times reported about the hornets on Saturday that shared graphic details of the piles of honeybee corpses left behind after murder hornets infiltrated their hives."
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