murder hornet

Etymology
, from +, equivalent to 🇰🇲. From its ability to kill people through its painful venomous stings, which can pierce through most regular beekeeper suits, killing some dozens of people a year in Japan; and its propensity for killing off honeybee colonies.

Noun

 * 1)     (See discussion)
 * 2) * 2020, "Deadly Hornet Massacres a Mouse on Video, They're Huge", TMZ
 * It's unclear if this is, in fact, a murder hornet
 * 1) * 2020, "The murder hornet is the 2020 B-plot you probably didn’t see coming", Kim Lyons, The Verge
 * Some 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.
 * 1) * 2020, "Murder Hornets Are In Canada Because 2020 Just Keeps On Going", Sima Shakeri, Huffington Post
 * The 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.
 * 1) * 2020, " "Murder hornets" have now entered the U.S. — and they could decimate the honeybee population ", Li Cohen, CBS News
 * But murder hornets become most dangerous from late summer to early fall, when they ravage through honey bee populations.
 * But murder hornets become most dangerous from late summer to early fall, when they ravage through honey bee populations.

Translations

 * Finnish: tappajaherhiläinen
 * Japanese: 殺人スズメバチ