Caution -many native hornets are OK
Both the Daily Mail and the Sun love bigging up stories to make them exciting and get an emotional reaction. Nothing delights the average journo (I should know, I am one) than a few column inches of killer swarms heading this way and causing mayhem.
We have...
Thanks to everyone
Thanks to everyone for taking the trouble to reply. Talking to local beekeepers at a routine meeting today, the consensus is that I have got away with it.
I will report on this thread if there are any problems or anything interesting.
I'm a new (2nd year) beekeeper going through a steep learning curve!
I did an artificial swarm, but could not find a queen in either colony post-swarm.
On advice, I re-united the 2 colonies over newspaper, with a nice fat queen cell in the bottom brood box.
My adviser said remove the paper and...