Are there vulture bees in the US?

I'm pretty sure they're just in Central and South America.

I hear you, but I know for a fact that meat eating bees - actually wasps/yellow jackets - live all up and down the West Coast. I have encountered them in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I had a swarm of them chase us from our picnic table in Yosemite. It is said that they extend all the way up to British Columbia.