Hornets

[predator]

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[Gray git]

Thanks for that predator, now I'm really **** scared of them!

Not a lot my eppie pen will do against that beast unless I squish it with it before it gets me :eek::eek::eek:

[Billhook]

 

 

 

If they had built anywhere else I would just have left both wasps and Hornets alone but unfortunately we have a bunch of kids coming to use the cabin this weekend so I shall attempt to move the nests.

 

I have selected two hollow stumps in the yard about a mile from where they are.

 

I see on the web that Hornets do attck wasp nests and use the grubs for their own so I presume that the building of the nest next to a wasp nest was deliberate as an easy food source. Has anyone seen this before?

 

So tonight is the night! If you do not see anymore posts from Billhook you will know he has ended up like the photos in the previous post!

 

By the was Hornets seem to be more active and have better night vision than wasps. Is this true?

[Graham]

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Those are Asian hornet stings. Nasty.

[ballibeg]

Asian hornets coming up through France. They attack bee hives. Asian bees ball up around a hornet in the hive and raise temperature to 38 degrees so hornets die. Bees die at 39.

 

Sadly European honey bee doesn't know how to defend itself.

 

Dave

[DanClimbsTrees]

Had one on my leg the other day. Not fun at all!

[Billhook]

Billhook survived and lives to tell the tale!

 

Not. Nearly as bad as I thought. Dressed up in beekeeping clothes and tackled the Hornets nest first with about fifty Hornets inside. Put a strong clear plastic bag over it and gently pulled the nest from the beam and put it into a waiting cool box. Not one Hornet even tried to sting or even buzz me as there were one or two still outside the bag. Took them to their new home and they were a little more agitated when I tipped them out of the bag but still none actually came for me. Gas nailed a board over the hole in the stump leaving them with a mouse hole at the other end. Will report on developments.

 

The wasps nest just fell apart and the wasps were particularly dopey. I feel that the nest had been nailed by the Hornets. I put the remains in another tree but they looked very slow and lacking in energy and I do not think they will survive.

[Jon3012]

Its been a bad year for wasps this year no idea why loads of dopey near dead nests. I know its to late but a hornets sting will easily go through a bee suit. Be careful.

[Andrew Gale]

I saw a program a while back about European bees being introduced to Japan to increase honey supplies; suffice to say they didn't stand a chance against the Asian hornet.

 

However the Japanese honey bee, although rubbish at producing honey, has nailed how to deal with an Asian hornet, they simply gang up on it, and I mean literally ON it, and vibrate their bodies to bring the temperature up to about 48 degrees (I think) and said hornet dies; however Japanese honey bees die at about 49 degrees-ish so they have to depart pretty lively or they die too.

 

Bloody clever thing this Nature.......

[fergusonforestry]

sod hornets! got stung by four wasps today that was bad enough look like im growing tatties under my skin!