While the media brought even more depressing news this week that murder hornets had made their way to North America to potentially kill humans, a new hero emerged on Twitter to save us all from this incredibly bleak year. It appears that the praying mantis is not only the hero we deserve, but the hero we need after a video of it killing a murder hornet went viral.

While the video is particularly gruesome, it does in fact show a villain being defeated that has brought additional anxiety to a nation already stressed out and suffering by the global pandemic. Naturally, "praying mantis" began to trend, albeit strangely under the food section of Twitter. Memes and GIFs were used to applaud the insect for its hard work and determination in rectifying 2020, and left many asking how they can purchase their own praying mantis as a potential bodyguard for all future threats.

 

Praying Mantis > Murder Hornet pic.twitter.com/IJf3NWudEQ

— Alisha 🤘🧀✌️🌊 (@captrwrpnts) May 7, 2020

 
The praying mantis was soon declared an essential worker.

Essential work

— Jimmy VHyde (@JimmyVhyde) May 7, 2020

 
There's always time for a Craigslist joke.

Craigslist roommates one day into a meat shortage.pic.twitter.com/ivT5YPjEtO

— comedycentral (@ComedyCentral) May 7, 2020

 
A well deserved cigarette.

Praying Mantis rn pic.twitter.com/9HCMSfz8Uf

— eric (@fffferic) May 7, 2020

 
Many users were quick to guess what insane catastrophe would arrive next.

pic.twitter.com/Y62LmAqXFV

— Stella (@girlpowernow1) May 7, 2020

 
Constantly raising the bar.

No one:

Me watching a praying mantis eat a murder hornet:

pic.twitter.com/ZFqY8jqhBn

— Jeff (@jeffundmg) May 7, 2020

 
The content was mesmerizing.

me awake in bed at 6am watching a video of a praying mantis eating a giant hornet pic.twitter.com/iQHfG8I3gE

— Bone Daddy 🌙 (@TylerDoesntKnow) May 7, 2020

 
A bingo game on steroids.

the praying mantis saving us from murder hornets……..2020 bingo just keeps getting more and more fucking interesting huh

— one winged theresa (@1999bzzresummr) May 7, 2020

 
The true superheroes of our time.

The ones who will save us from the murder hornets about to assemble all praying mantis like they the avengers pic.twitter.com/w42Ipu0Ry3

— .jesse.bruh (@jessehubbard171) May 7, 2020

 
Our only wish is that Samuel L. Jackson could narrate this video.

Media: Murder hornets are coming to kill us!

Praying mantis: Imma eat the MF's head. https://t.co/5pHhIMn8Ok

— Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) May 7, 2020

 
Of course, many users were quick to ask how they could purchase their own praying mantis.

Me online ordering my praying mantis army! pic.twitter.com/IjAlANz1mq

— Jay W️🌊🌵🌊 (@starwarsdcfan) May 7, 2020

 

I would like to invest in praying mantises https://t.co/8BRTv7uf8F

— Kalhan (@KalhanR) May 7, 2020

 
Here's hoping they don't sell out quicker than toilet paper.

Cue Praying Mantis panic buy… https://t.co/2m4SE5P7ps

— Jared Monroe (@TheJaredMonroe) May 7, 2020

 
Hope.

Seeing a praying mantis completely slaughter a murder hornet gives me hope in these terrifying times pic.twitter.com/M6DFxHwPA2

— Miss Mantis 💋 (@flux_eg4) May 7, 2020

 
It's nice to see a villain defeated.

Me watching a praying mantis eating a murder hornet’s entire head pic.twitter.com/LXpwlDsZef

— Lyle (@WalkWithLyle) May 7, 2020

 

Happy National Day of Prayer.

Murder Hornet: Exists

Praying Mantis: You need Jesus in your life

— Adam Aston (@adamgreattweet) May 7, 2020