Here's how the world filled a bingo card with bizarre, sad, silly and upsetting news stories in the pandemic-dominated year of 2020.

Researchers say it's the first known case of bees using a tool in nature. In this case, that tool is stool.

The insect was found in Aldergrove eight days after an Asian giant hornet sighting in Abbotsford.

Researchers cracked open the Asian giant hornet nest, revealing a complex network filled with young workers and queens.

The Asian giant hornet nest was eradicated in Blaine, Wash., a few kilometres south of the border with Canada.

The nest found in the city of Blaine, Wash., is about the size of a basketball and contained an estimated 100 to 200 hornets, according to scientists who announced the find Friday.

The Asian giant hornet nest was found in Blaine, Wash., just a few kilometres south of the British Columbia border. 

Both hornets were found in Birch Bay, just south of Blaine and a 20-minute drive from the Peace Arch border crossing.

The Asian giant hornet stings through clothing like a red-hot needle and slaughters honeybees by the thousands.