'Attack of the Murder Hornets' showcases Whatcom and the race to find these bee killers
Feb. 21—A new documentary streaming on discovery+ follows Washington state scientists and beekeepers as they rush to find and fight off an unwanted invader in Whatcom County.
The work of filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson, "Attack of the Murder Hornets" uses thematic elements found in monster movies — creepy music, a race against time, a big villain — down to a poster that shows an Asian giant hornet flying toward the viewer with its large mandibles opening.
The action of the nearly 90-minute documentary that debuted Saturday, Feb. 20, unfolds in rural Whatcom County, where the first Asian hornet in the U.S. and Washington state was discovered in December 2019 and the first nest was destroyed, near Blaine, in October 2020. All that against the backdrop of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
The hornets are popularly known as "murder hornets," because of a New York Times article.
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