Last year for the first time we got loads of Asian Hornets around one of our apple trees, it was around this time of the year and they go after the windfalls.
I've just checked out my beer traps and there was the first one among the usual hornets, apparently they are very bad for bees and can give a very nasty sting, so get your beer traps out now!
This is a photo from last year, it's not brilliant but if you click to enlarge you will see what they look like.
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(Tue-17-09-2013, 11:16 AM)Fred Wrote: [ -> ]Last year for the first time we got loads of Asian Hornets around one of our apple trees, it was around this time of the year and they go after the windfalls.
I've just checked out my beer traps and there was the first one among the usual hornets, apparently they are very bad for bees and can give a very nasty sting, so get your beer traps out now!
As a beekepper in the UK I would agree 100%. These hornets are very bad news for the bees
(Tue-17-09-2013, 12:04 PM)chris_and_julie Wrote: [ -> ]As a beekepper in the UK I would agree 100%. These hornets are very bad news for the bees
Is it true they take the heads off the Bees?
Yes is the quick answer ... The hornets can devastate a colony of honey bees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honey bees per minute thanks to its large mandibles which can quickly strike and decapitate a bee.
The hornets were accidentally introduced to France in 2004 and have spread rapidly throughout the country.
It is believed they entered the country in a consignment of pottery from China and were first spotted in Lot-et-Garonne, south-west France, in 2005,
Last year, a 54-year-old man was stung to death after disrupting a nest in France’s Loire Valley.
Chris
(Tue-17-09-2013, 12:25 PM)chris_and_julie Wrote: [ -> ]Yes is the quick answer ... The hornets can devastate a colony of honey bees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honey bees per minute thanks to its large mandibles which can quickly strike and decapitate a bee.
The hornets were accidentally introduced to France in 2004 and have spread rapidly throughout the country.
It is believed they entered the country in a consignment of pottery from China and were first spotted in Lot-et-Garonne, south-west France, in 2005,
Last year, a 54-year-old man was stung to death after disrupting a nest in France’s Loire Valley.
Chris
Thanks Chris, I don't know where the nest is but will keep away from it if I do spot it. I'm going to put some more beer traps up too.
Surely if you find the nest Fred you can use one of those aerosol bomb thingies? You know the sort - five to six metre range. Stand well back and let fly with the cloud of death......and run away in double quick time.
(Thu-19-09-2013, 10:46 AM)Admiral Wrote: [ -> ]Surely if you find the nest Fred you can use one of those aerosol bomb thingies? You know the sort - five to six metre range. Stand well back and let fly with the cloud of death......and run away in double quick time.
You're just dying to see me in my Red Rupert Trousers ain't ya.
Déjà vu:
https://aroundmontmorillon.com/showthread.php?tid=130
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