Murder hornet. Dead. | Washington State Department of Agriculture
Hello it is I, your intrepid murder hornet correspondent. What’s a murder hornet, you ask? I wish I did not know. But as I wrote back in May, the Asian giant hornet (its official name) can grow up to two inches long, rips the heads off of honeybees, and has a stinger that can jam right through standard beekeeping suits. Oh and they can fly up to 20 miles per hour and their stings can kill you. Nature is the best.
Guess what, though: the heroes at the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they’ve trapped a murder hornet in the state for the first time (as opposed to finding one in the wild). The hornet was discovered in a trap near Birch Bay in Whatcom County (about 35 miles south of the Canadian border) on July 14th and...
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in its all-important Governing Council meeting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Sunday decided to continue with Vivo as the title sponsor.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in its all-important Governing Council meeting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has decided to hold the 13th edition of the league from September 19 to November 10.
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Veteran England pacer Stuart Broad has said he did think about calling it a day after being axed for last month's opening Test against West Indies.
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BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said the Women's IPL or the Challenger series, as it is better known, is "very much on", ending speculation about the parent body not having a plan for Harmanpreet Kaur and her team.
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One has heard Shoaib Akhtar's story many a time, where he said that he saw Sachin Tendulkar shivering while facing him during the 2003 World Cup. Now the former pacer has come up with another story.
Pakistan bowler Shoaib Akhtar was one of the greats that Pakistan produced, but since his retirement has a tendency of giving rather unbelievable statements. This time around Akhtar has claimed that he turned down a 175,000 pound contract to play county cricket for Nottinghamshire so that he could fight in the Kargil War.
Pakistan has the best win-loss ratio in England amongst the teams from the sub-continent and the third-best overall after Australia and West Indies.
The BCCI is widely known as the world's richest cricket board, but to utter surprise of many, it has not cleared cricketers' dues for close to 10 months now, according to a report in the Indian Express.
Opener Jonny Bairstow smashed 82 off 41 balls as England beat Ireland by four wickets in the second One Day International to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead on Saturday.
Jonny Bairstow's quickfire 82 in half as many deliveries proved enough to help England beat Ireland by four wickets in the second of their One Day Internationals at Southampton on Saturday.
