wasp hornet or worse

[ABtrees]

8 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Free in fact, paid for entirely by the commune in this region of Brittany but no-one including the client or his neighbours in the village could see a nest so no-one to take responsibility for it.

I recently abandoned moving my wood pile at my renovation due to Asiatics interested either in the grape vine or those others insects feeding on the grapes.

I watched for a long time and saw they took off in 3 directions.

After noting their flight paths, I walked several hundred metres across fields towards copses yet could not see a single nest in any tree.

Like yours, the nests often very difficult to spot until you are almost upon them.

Even then, you need a property owner to take responsibility and sign the required forms.

 Stuart

 

 

Hi.  I've done exactly the same at our place - followed the flightpath and found nothing.  I followed then into the wood and then stood on the other side and there's nothing flying out !  It gets the adrenaline going a bit - you know you must be close but ...... !  Apparently they need water nearby for the nest - there's a brook in our wood.  Don't know if you guys could do this but our frelon exterminator uses a paint ball gun for the inaccessible ones - don't know where he gets the balls of insecticide from though, presumably they'd be restricted/ licensed.

[nepia]

8 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Even then, you need a property owner to take responsibility and sign the required forms.

 Stuart

 

 

You mean you can't just report a nest and have the authorities destroy it?  Is that typical French bureaucracy at work?!

[coppice cutter]

14 hours ago, sime42 said:

I once watched a friend slice a wasp in half mid-air with a bread knife. Quite a feat considering wasps don't hover like that. Pure fluke though he maintained otherwise.

 

Lightweight.

 

Jean Claude Van Damme can catch them mid-air, with chopsticks, blindfolded!

[Ty Korrigan]

10 hours ago, nepia said:

You mean you can't just report a nest and have the authorities destroy it?  Is that typical French bureaucracy at work?!

Indeed.

 Stuart

[Ty Korrigan]

Guêpes et frelons asiatiques

WWW.ELAGAGE-HEVEA.COM

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Retrouvez l'essentiel pour lutter contre les guêpes et le frelon asiatique : pistolet insecticide longue portée...

 

Guns and ammo freely available but pointless buying when so many regions finance the destruction through approved/licenced companies.

Even finding training and getting on a course in de-insectification is a near impossibility here.

Stuart

 

 

 

[Ty Korrigan]

Mrs Lee just found an article on a new species of Hornet even worse than the Asiatic, the Oriental...

 

Le Frelon oriental, espèce très dangereuse, détecté à Marseille pour la première fois en France

FRANCE3-REGIONS.FRANCETVINFO.FR

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Une nouvelle espèce de frelon, le frelon oriental, a été découverte pour la première fois en France, à Marseille...

                   Stuart