Last fall, beekeeper Teddy McFall went to inspect a hive and found a massacre."I noticed all these dead bees in front of the hive thatwere missing their heads and were all chopped up," said McFall, who lives in Western Washington's Whatcom County, near the Canadian border. He's lost hives to yellow jacket wasps before, but he thought it was very peculiar because there were no dead yellow jackets or other hornets among the carnage. "Usually, a strong hive like that can mount a good defense. That's why I took pictures, because it was so bizarre," he said.
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