Asian hornets

[Ty Korrigan]

37 minutes ago, dig-dug-dan said:

According to my beekeeper friend, who is very worried about those things hitting our shores, (a nest was found two years ago in dorset) , by this time of year, that nest would have produced some 200 queens who would have dispersed by now. The workers would have died , as a worker wasp would have done.

The queens are still present, they leave the nest late Autumn.

This being France not the UK.

We know this from the traps set which are only catching workers right now.

In the Spring the traps catch the emerging queens, that being the most important period for trap setting.

When we went bust in 2018, we sold the yard to a local bee keeper and it is from him we developed the passion for bottle traps.

Last week I pruned a few branches in exchange for 5kg of honey.

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2021 by Ty Korrigan